Author Archives: Ashley Kronsberg

Booklist May 2021 Giveaway

By Ashley KronsbergMay 19, 2021Contest/Giveaway

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NEEDLE & THREAD
MAVERICK
September 2021

NOCTERRA
IMAGE COMICS
October 2021

M.O.M. MOTHER OF MADNESS
IMAGE COMICS
November 2021

NIGHTMARE IN SAVANNAH
MAVERICK
November 2021

BLACK POWDER
ASYLUM PRESS
December 2021

FARMHOUSE
ASYLUM PRESS
December 2021

GEIGER
IMAGE COMICS
December 2021

WORLD CLASS
MAVERICK
Coming Soon

Queer Peers: Representation in Comics

By Ashley KronsbergMay 18, 2021Eventsevents, webinar

DIAMOND BOOK DISTRIBUTORS and BOOKLIST have partnered to bring you QUEER PEERS: REPRESENTATION IN COMICS, a virtual webinar interviewing some of comics most prolific and upcoming creators.

Join us on FRIDAY, JUNE 4 at 1P CT.

MODERATOR

Vincent (Vincey) Zalkind is a library worker in California. As a huge comic book fan he can usually be found advocating for comics and graphic novels as literacy, promoting LGBTQIA comics in the library, organizing his ever growing record collection, baking, or hanging out with his cat and partner.

PARTICIPATING CREATORS

STEVE ORLANDO‘s first book ever was poorly drawn in fifth-grade classroom pencils on Xerox paper, and featured a doughboy with superpowers, and names changed from trademark purposes. He was a precocious child. Today he writes and produces comics, including Virgil, Crude and stories in the Eisner Award Nominated Outlaw Territory at Image Comics. He launched Midnighter and took part in Batman and Robin Eternal and CMYK: Yellow at DC Entertainment. Find him at your convenience deep down the rabbit hole of discussing wine, spirits, or mythology.

SINA GRACE has worn many hats in his many years in comics but is mainly known for his work as a writer, artist, and general gal about town.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Grace got his start making comics as early as high school, when he worked as an editorial intern at Top Cow Productions and spent weekends working the register at Hi De Ho Comics in Santa Monica. From there, he split his time attending University of California, Santa Cruz and self-publishing zines, mini-comics, and his first-ever series, Books with Pictures.

Grace continues to work as an illustrator, contributing art to musicians Jenny Lewis, Tegan and Sara, Childish Gambino, Colleen Green, and more. Clients include Cameron Crowe, Stars, and Capitol Records.

He continues to live in Los Angeles, where he can be found in coffee shops working on whatever the next thing may be.

HAZEL NEWLEVANT is a Portland-raised, Queens-residing cartoonist. Their comics include If This Be Sin, Tender-Hearted, Sugar Town, and No Ivy League. They edited and published the anthologies Chainmail Bikini and Comics For Choice. They co-edited the anthology Puerto Rico Strong, published by Lion Forge Comics, which received an Eisner Award. Their comics have been honored with the Ignatz Award, Xeric Grant and the Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. They have worked as an Associate Editor at Lion Forge Comics, and are currently the social media manager of A Wave Blue World. They like to dance around, alone or with others.

JEN HICKMAN is a visual storyteller and a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Sequential Art program. Past work includes Lonely Receiver, TEST, Moth & Whisper, Jem and the Holograms, and more. They get really excited about dystopian fiction, good coffee, and drawing hands.

LELA GWEN is a writer that has written Hellraiser Bestiary 4 (BOOM!), Where We Live (Image), All We Ever Wanted (Wave Blue World), Bad Luck Chuck (Dark Horse), as well as upcoming graphic novel Nightmare in Savannah (Mad Cave Studios). She’s a proud social justice warrior, and the town weirdo in her rural community. She’s currently in school despite being way too old, but she loves it.

PW Book Show – AfterShock Comics

By Ashley KronsbergMay 14, 2021Eventsaftershock comics, events

Animosity Year One

Dreaming Eagles

Miskatonic

Nuclear Family

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781935002604
Science Fiction
Ages 13 to 16
Available Now!

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781949028645
Science Fiction
Ages 13 to 16
June 1, 2021

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781949028652
Horror
Ages 16 And Up
July 20, 2021

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781949028737
Science Fiction
Ages 16 And Up
October 26, 2021

Rainbow Bridge

Scout's Honor

Shadow Doctor

We Live

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781949028676
Young Adult Fiction
Ages 12 And Up
August 17, 2021

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781949028690
Dystopian
Ages 16 And Up
September 21, 2021

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781949028720
Crime & Mystery
Ages 16 And Up
November 2, 2021

AFTERSHOCK COMICS
9781949028607
Science Fiction
Ages 13 to 16
June 1, 2021

Publisher Weekly Book Show: May 25-27

By Ashley KronsbergMay 13, 2021DBD News, DIgital Review Copies, Eventsevents, pw book show

Diamond Book Distributors joins Publisher Weekly for their first ever industry virtual event: US BOOK SHOW. We are excited to exhibit some of our publishers’ most anticipated books of the seasons including titles from Ablaze, AfterShock Comics, Asylum Press, Dynamite Entertainment, and Maverick.

Along with our title showcase, please join us for our exclusive creator chats with STEPHANIE PHILLIPS, ERIC POWELL, and HAROLD SCHECTER.

Check out a list of available FREE DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES along with details for the creator chats below!

MAY 25 at 1PM EST

STEPHANIE PHILLIPS is an American writer known for comics and graphic novels such as HARLEY QUINN, BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT, SENSATIONAL WONDER WOMAN, SUPERMAN, TAARNA, and THE BUTCHER OF PARIS. Her stories and comics have appeared with DC Comics, AfterShock Comics, Dark Horse, Oni Press, Top Cow/Image Comics, Heavy Metal, Black Mask Studios, A Wave Blue World, and more. Stephanie is currently the writer for the ongoing Harley Quinn series at DC Comics with artist Riley Rossmo.

Stephanie also holds a PhD in rhetoric and composition and and MA in English from the University of South Florida. She has taught writing and communication courses at the University at Buffalo, the University of South Florida, and the University of Tampa.

Outside of comics, Stephanie is a Muay Thai fighter and hockey player. She likes cats, old Westerns, and macaroni & cheese shaped like cartoons.

NUCLEAR FAMILY • 9781949028737

America, 1957. Elvis dominates the airwaves and apple pie is served after every meal. But, with the dark cloud of nuclear holocaust looming, Korean War vet Tim McClean’s major concern is taking care of his family in the atomic age.

When the first bomb does drop on an unexpecting Midwest city, Tim and his family find themselves plunged into a strange new world, where what’s left of the United States has gone underground while continuing to wage war on Russia with unthinkable tactics.

Based on Philip K. Dick’s short story “Breakfast at Twilight,” NUCLEAR FAMILY is written by Stephanie Phillips (Butcher of Paris, Heavy Metal, ARTEMIS AND THE ASSASSIN, RED ATLANTIS) and illustrated by Tony Shasteen (Star Trek). It’s Cold War era science fiction at its most timely and terrifying.

MAY 25 at 2:30PM EST

Launched in 2002, Albatross Exploding Funnybooks has always been a labor of love for award-winning, Nashville-based cartoonist ERIC POWELL. The label began as a means to publish Powell’s creator-owned series The Goon, which mainstream publishers had deemed “too different.” Although The Goon later found a home and wider audience with Dark Horse Comics, Powell continued to publish, celebrate, and cultivate creator-owned titles through Albatross Exploding Funnybooks, including his all-ages comic Chimichanga and Rebecca Sugar’s Pug Davis. In 2016, Powell rededicated himself in earnest to his publishing company, launching his new fantasy series Hillbilly and other works such as the all-ages horror anthology Spook House, Fabian Rangel Jr. and Logan Faerber’s weird war tale ’Namwolf, and Brendon Small’s Galaktikon.

HAROLD SCHECHTER (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. Schechter’s essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He is the editor of the Library of America volume, True Crime: An American Anthology. His newest book, published in March 2021, is Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer.

DID YOU HEAR WHAT EDDIE GEIN DONE? • 9781949889048

One of the greats in the field of true crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell’s Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell (The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged serial killers in American history, Ed Gein.

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is an in-depth exploration of the Gein family and what led to the creation of the necrophile who haunted the dreams of 1950s America and inspired such films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs.

Painstakingly researched and illustrated, Schechter and Powell’s true crime graphic novel takes the Gein story out of the realms of exploitation and gives the reader a fact-based dramatization of these tragic, psychotic and heartbreaking events. Because, in this case, the truth needs no embellishment to be horrifying.

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AVAILABLE DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES

PW Book Show – Dynamite Entertainment

By Ashley KronsbergMay 13, 2021Eventsdynamite entertainment, events

The Boys: Dear Becky

The Death of Nancy Drew

James Bond: Big Things

Rainbow Brite Digest Edition

Saved by a Whisker

DYNAMITE
9781524119904
Superheroes
Ages 16 And Up
Available Now!

DYNAMITE
9781524119140
Crime & Mystery
Ages 13 to 16
July 6, 2021

DYNAMITE
9781524119119
Media Tie-In
Ages 16 And Up
July 6, 2021

DYNAMITE
9781524119560
Juvenile Fiction
Ages 9 to 12
Available Now!

DYNAMITE
9781524120658
Juvenile Fiction
Ages 9 to 12
November 2, 2021

PW Book Show – Asylum Press

By Ashley KronsbergMay 13, 2021Eventsasylum press, events

Beyond Doomsday : Illustrated Tales of The Apocalypse

Black Powder: Bloody Frontier Adventure

Farmhouse

Undead Evil

ASYLUM PRESS
9781617242250
Anthologies
Ages 16 And Up
November 30, 2021

ASYLUM PRESS
9781617242274
Action/Adventure
Ages 13 To 16
December 7, 2021

ASYLUM PRESS
9781617242267
Crime & Mystery
Ages 13 To 16
December 7, 2021

ASYLUM PRESS
9781617242281
Horror
Ages 16 And Up
December 14, 2021

PW Book Show – Ablaze

By Ashley KronsbergMay 13, 2021Eventsablaze comics, events

A Man's Skin

The Breaker Omnibus Volume 1

ABLAZE
9781950912483
Fantasy
Ages 16 And Up
November 9, 2021

ABLAZE
9781950912247
Action & Adventure
Ages 16 And Up
July 13, 2021

The Cimmerian Volume 1

The Cimmerian Volume 2

The Cimmerian Volume 3

ABLAZE
9781950912209
Fantasy
Ages 16 And Up
Available Now!

ABLAZE
9781950912346
Fantasy
Ages 16 And Up
July 13, 2021

ABLAZE
9781950912445
Fantasy
Ages 16 And Up
October 26, 2021

Trese Volume 1

Trese Volume 2

Trese Volume 3

ABLAZE
9781950912193
Horror
Ages 13 to 16
Available Now!

ABLAZE
9781950912339
Horror
Ages 13 to 16
July 13, 2021

ABLAZE
9781950912209
Horror
Ages 13 to 16
September 28, 2021

The Minecraft-inspired Misadventures of Frigiel and Fluffy Volume 1

The Minecraft-inspired Misadventures of Frigiel and Fluffy Volume 2

ABLAZE
9781950912223
Fantasy
Ages 9 to 12
Available Now!

ABLAZE
9781950912285
Fantasy
Ages 9 to 12
Available Now!

Regina King to Direct Legendary’s Film Adaptation of’Bitter Root’

By Ashley KronsbergMay 12, 2021Industry Newsfilm adaptation, industry news

According to Deadline, Legendary has announced that Regina King will direct the feature film adaptation of Image Comics’ acclaimed series BITTER ROOT by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene.

The series follows the Sangerye family. Once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, they specialized in curing the souls of those infected by hate, but those days are fading. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins split between curing monsters and killing them. Now, with a new breed of monster loose on the streets of Harlem, the Sangerye family must come together, or watch the human race fall to untold evil.

The acclaimed series received nominations for a 2019 Eisner Award for Best New Series and a 2019 Ringo award for Best Series as well as raving reviews from various sources including Hollywood Reporter, Library Journal, The Washington Post, and more.

Be sure to stock up on the available volumes! BITTER ROOT VOLUME 3 comes out November 2021.

Bitter Root Volume 1

Bitter Root Volume 2

Bitter Root Volume 3

IMAGE COMICS
9781534312128
Available Now!

IMAGE COMICS
9781534316607
Available Now!

IMAGE COMICS
9781534319172
November 2, 2021

Kaiju Score

By Ashley KronsbergMay 7, 2021Featured Graphic Novels

Published by AfterShock Comics

ISBN: 9781949028621
Price: $16.99
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Ages: 16+

On Sale: June 29, 2021

It’s the most dangerous heist ever attempted. Four desperate criminals are going all in on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to steal millions in art and turn their miserable lives around. The catch? They have to pull it off under the nose of a one thousand-ton Kaiju. And a giant monster might just be the least of their problems.

Brought to you by James Patrick (Grimm Fairy Tales, Death Comes to Dillinger, The Monsters of Jimmy Crumb) and Rem Broo (The End Times of Bram and Ben, Terminal Protocol), THE KAIJU SCORE is what happens when a Quentin Tarantino film takes place smack in the middle of a Godzilla movie.

Film rights acquired by Sony Pictures!

Key Selling Points

Brings together two popular graphic novel genres: slick, stylish heist-based crime thriller and giant rampaging Kaiju monsters
Captures the fun, fast-paced spirit of the Oceans 11 movies, as well as the excitement and unpredictability of the most recent Godzilla movies
Film rights acquired by Sony Pictures even before the first issue hit comic stands.