The New York Times has introduced three new bestseller lists for comics. One for hardcovers, one for softcovers and one for manga. Read about them here.
I was particularly happy that Larry Marder's legendary "Beanworld", which after fifteen years in limbo is being reprinted and is having new stories created, has made it's way into the list. Along with Gaiman's "Sandman", "Beanworld" is one of the comic book series that truly understands the power of myth. If you haven't read this series you MUST BUY the new edition! This series is difficult to explain, but I think it's truly mind expanding.
Entertainment Weekly: "Like George Lucas, Stan Lee, and J.J. Abrams,
cartoonist Larry Marder is the creator of a deeply imagined alternate world that inspires obsessive fandom and yields glossaries, maps, and
websites. " -Sean Howe
- Spash Page
Newsarama: "It’s not the sort of world of imagination you lived in as a child, but it is the sort of world of imagination that Marder must have lived in as a child, and which he reconstructs for you to live in as an adult seeing things as a child again. It’s not exactly a modern work of mythology, but it certainly taps into the same things that mythology does, and works in much the same way mythology does." - J. Caleb Mozzocco
The Village Voice: "Beanworld life is a carefully calibrated blend of the quotidian and magical. Like the best imaginary universes, it provides a constant unfolding of anxious and ecstatic mysteries both sacred and profane. " - Richard Gehr
MTV: "...one of the most original and brilliant comic-book universes ever created."
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