Tales from the Brothers Grimm and BIONICLE
September 22, 2009 by Michael Petranek
Filed under New releases, Papercutz Blog, reviews
Hi everyone!
I know school has started for almost all of you, and you may be looking for some new reading material aside from what your teachers are assigning you. Feeling tired of Algebra, Grammar studies, or Chemistry? I can’t blame you. These things are all good, and you should absolutely read everything your teacher assigns you, but sometimes you just need a break from school, sports and videogames! That’s where Papercutz comes in.
Today I thought I would share with you two very different titles from Papercutz that have both received a great review recently. The first is CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DELUXE #2 “Tales from the Brothers Grimm.”
What I’ve always loved about this volume is that while most of us know the story of “Hansel and Gretel,” many have never experienced “The Valiant Tailor,” “Learning to Shutter,” or “The Devil and the Three Golden Hairs.” These are great stories, and if you take a look at the following excerpt, I think you’ll see why Scripps News called this collection “beautiful” and “rewarding for kids, adults”.
How’s that for a cliffhanger! CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DELUXE “Tales from the Brothers Grimm” is great reading whether your on the bus on your way to school, on the train going to work, or just relaxing. Just make sure you don’t read it while you’re driving. Sorry Bus Drivers, you’ll have to wait until your shift is over before you can enjoy this book.
I first began working for Jim Salicrup when Papercutz started publishing BIONICLE, and I’ve seen that title grow and grow! As some of you now know, we’re approaching the 8th volume with ALL-NEW stories and art! It should be exciting. Meanwhile, the BIONICLE Juggernaut continues to prosper. Just recently, WIRED magazine ran an article about BIONICLE that I think you’ll like. The author mentions the new story we published in volume 6 (Hydraxon’s Tale), and seemed to really enjoy it. Here’s a panel wonderfully drawn by Christian Zanier for “Hydraxon’s Tale”
All I can say is, more to come soon! BIONICLE 7 “Realm of Fear” is out in stores in November, and next Spring will see the release of BIONICLE 8 “Legends of Bara Magna”: the first Papercutz BIONICLE graphic novel featuring all-new stories and art. If you haven’t become acquainted with BIONICLE yet, there’s never been a better time to start!
In closing, now that Fall is upon us soon it will be Winter, when sometimes the best thing one can do is curl up with a good story and relax indoors to escape the bitter cold. What better way to do so than with a Papercutz graphic novel? I can’t think of one! Thanks for reading!
-Mike
Christian Zanier’s art looks amazing.
Thanks, Rajeev! Just wait until you see BIONICLE #8 “Legends of Bara Magna”! Believe it or not, his work is even better than “Hydraxon’s Tale.”
I am really so exciting to see this bionicle graphic novel and greg and the other author were doing such a wonderful job of doing and designing this comic books.I would like to know how many volume will greg design altogether and i heard that there will be bionicle #9 and #10 caming out in april and may on 2010.So if any of the author of the bionicle graphic novel or the papercutz people know how many volume will there be please do reply back to me in this post.Thnak you and i really like Greg and Christian Zanier art work.^^
Hi Shun,
BIONICLE #9 will be coming out in late April 2010. We haven’t announced a BIONICLE #10 yet, but we will also be publishing two guidebooks in late April called “Mata Nui’s Guide to Bara Magna” and “Makuta’s Guide to the Universe”. Greg writes all of the comics and that’s not changing any time soon! Thanks for taking a look at out blog!
-Michael
oh ok thanks for the reply michael .but michael i still may have some question to ask so i hope you won\’t mind. so the first question is will there be a bionicle #10 coming on 2010 and will this bionicle #10 will have the same cover pages and everything just like the other 9 volumes and also is bionicle #10 the last volume of bionicle graphic novel ? the second question is do papercutz travel anywhere in the country around the world like for example do papercutz travel to singapore and let the bookshop in shopping mall like popular to also sell the bionicle graphic novel or hardy boys graphic novel or any other graphic novel books/comicbooks to the people who know or saw it or heard it because you know i am singaporean and i live in singapore and now i have already bought 6 bionicle graphic novel books already and waiting for #7 to come and then #8 then #9 and don\’t know if there will be #10 and more so i hope you won’t like laugh or get confused with it. the last question is what is the two guidebooks called “Mata Nui’s guide to Bara Magna” and “Makuta’s guide to the Universe” about?so this all the question i want to ask hope you could answer all my question and i also hope you won’t mind it.thank you micheal and have nice day
Hi Shun!
I’m glad you’re so excited about the BIONICLE graphic novels, and I don’t mind your questions at all. Just the opposite, in fact. We love to hear from fans of Papercutz graphic novels! Let me dive into your questions…
First, we have not announced a BIONICLE #10. That doesn’t mean there won’t be one, but right now we don’t have one planned for the immediate future. BIONICLE #7 “Realm of Fear” just came out in the United States. I think you’ll enjoy Leigh Gallagher’s artwork and there is a preview of BIONICLE #8 that features art by Christian Zanier. Also, for the first time EVER in BIONICLE comics, it looks like one of the artists from a previous BIONICLE comic series will RETURN to draw new stories! No artist has ever returned to work on BIONICLE after completing his run. You’ll have to guess who that artist is…
As for the guidebooks, they are bigger in size than our BIONICLE graphic novels because they contain maps of the BIONICLE worlds, in-depth character break-downs and all you need to know about BIONICLE if you think you may have missed something along the way. There is so much great BIONICLE material out there that sometimes you can lose track of characters or events. The guidebooks will fill in the story lines, characters, events and places you may have missed along the way.
Lastly, we don’t travel to places like Singapore or other countries to sell our books. Bookstores buy our graphic novels through our distributor. That said, if you know a comic store who doesn’t carry one of our graphic novels you want, ask them to order it for you. There is information for bookstore orders on our website at http://www.papercutz.com. Thank you very much for taking the time to write us and have a great day!
-Michael
thx for replying again!Michael! gald to know you. and i sure do like to really read it once i have bought the bionicle grapich novel. it makes things so exciting well i think i had nothing to say if i do have any question again i will do comment it again thx again for also answering all my question with no sweat.^^ oh by the way Michael since i am singaporean and i live in singapore then can i also like order or buy the bionicle books from papercutz and should i use your country money notes or my country money notes to buy it once i have already order it because you know i am in singapore and also a singaporean (sorry if i repeat this again). so i do hope you could able this questio n and sorry for trouble you again but i do like bionicle graphic novel alot so i hope that i can able to use the singapore notes to buy it. hope you won’t get angry with it michael i hope you could really understand it and again sorry for really saying this one too and for also saying using singapore notes to buy or order it since you are from another country.
Hi Shun!
I’m glad you’ve enjoyed talking about BIONICLE. If you call our offices to order, you will need to pay in US dollars or by Visa, Mastercard or American Express. If you call 1-800-866-1223 to place an order we will be happy to help you as much as possible. Thanks again!
-Michael
sure no problem!
oh man i just got bionicle #7 realm of fear today in the afternoon. i really like it alot especially is binicle #8 legends of bara magna special preview i find it so intresting to read it and waiting on febraury 2010 to get it and also hope to get #9 as well and so on until i complete my collection then i can read and look at the graphics as mny times i can. i sure am so excited to read it