New covers, new columns, Oh my!

Some pics and links for your reading pleasure. First off, the totally fantastic cover for my upcoming novel from Ace/Roc books, Dead Mann Walking! Two words: zombie detective. It’ll be out October 3. Next but no less, we’ve got the cover for Ripper, out next March from Philomel Books. Don’t know how much I should [...]

Free Comic Book Day, BEA, and Much More!

Hi Everyone, It’s been a very busy couple of weeks here for Papercutz. The Geronimo Stilton authors went up and down the West Coast for Free Comic Book Day. Here’s a great picture of their journey: They had a great time! Here’s a picture of Michele Foschini, Ennio Bufi, and Leonardo Favia signing at Atlantis [...]

Fringe and BEA

My second column is now up at Boomtron covering the season finale of my favorite bastard child of The X-Files, Fringe, as well as providing a list of off-beat time travel stories that the show called to mind. And later this month, May 24-26, your humble author will be appearing in NYC at the 2011 [...]

Free Comic Book Day is Tomorrow!

Hi Everyone, One of my favorite days of the year, Free Comic Book Day, is tomorrow! I am very excited for our comic book “Geronimo Stilton and the Smurfs.” Here’s a look at the cover: Free Comic Book Day Cover This comic contains a preview from GERONIMO STILTON #7, the Smurfs story “The Smurfs Submarine” [...]

GERONIMO STILTON Graphic Novel Creators to Appear in the Bay area on the occasion of Children’s Book Week and Free Comic Book Day!

San Francisco, CA:  May 2nd marks the beginning of Children’s Book Week and publishers nationwide are planning events. Papercutz is celebrating with a unique series of author and artist appearances in the San Francisco Bay area. If you’re around, you should definitely check it out! For the first time since the graphic novel series launched [...]

Check out my new Column “An Unreasonable Fan” at BSCREVIEW.COM!

For some insane reason, Elena Wolf, editor at bscreview, upon reading my recent history of vampires, invited me to do a regular, monthly column.  With friends and family pretty used to hearing my opinions, they’ve become difficult to surprise, so I decided to give it a shot. As a result, the first entry of An [...]

Me and the Fangs–A loose history of Vampires

The vampire — monster, metaphor, lifestyle choice, high school crush. Love ‘em or not, their persistence as a cultural meme seems as immortal as the wacky critters themselves. Be it coincidence or a desperate attempt to cash in before the craze dissipates in the rays of the rising sun, I’ve recently penned not one, but [...]

The Smurfs are Everywhere!

Hi There, Associate Editor Michael Petranek here, and I’m surrounded by Smurfs! First, we just launched the newest Smurfs game “Baby Smurf’s Couples” — it’s a smurfilization of “Tetris” that introduces the variable of Jokey Smurf’s bombs! It’s quite addictive, indeed! Not only that, but this past weekend The Washington Post published an item on [...]

GARFIELD & Co Graphic Novels are Here!

Hi Everyone, Associate Editor Michael Petranek here with some very exciting news: today we launched the Garfield & Co. section of our website! Growing up I loved to watch the Garfield & Friends television show, which introduced a lot of new characters that didn’t appear in the comic strip. Everyone knows Jon, Odie, and Nermal, [...]

Getting Good Grades…

Hi There! Associate Editor Michael Petranek here, happy to report that Papercutz has received some very good grades over the past week. No, we didn’t go back to school; people have been grading our graphic novels in recent reviews! If you head over to The Graphic Classroom you’ll see PAPERCUTZ SLICES #1 “Harry Potty” received [...]

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