Feeling Adventurous?
June 4, 2010 by Michael Petranek
Filed under New releases
Whenever summer rolls around I always get a little spring in my step, so to speak. With June having just begun, I felt it was a great opportunity to post a blog entry about CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #10 “Cyrano de Bergerac”! This is one of my favorite plays adapted by one of my favorite artists. If [...]
A Ravin’ Raven Review!
November 30, 2009 by Michael Petranek
Filed under reviews
Hi everyone! I hope that those of you in the United States had a great Thanksgiving holiday. Everyone is back at the Papercutz office today, working on a lot of new graphic novels we’re very excited about. Today however, I’d like to talk about one of our older graphic novels, CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #4 “The Raven [...]
September 2009 Solicitations
July 9, 2009 by Michael Petranek
Filed under Papercutz Blog, author appearances
NOW BEING SOLICITED IN COMICBOOK STORES AND GENERAL BOOK STORES SEPTEMBER 2009… CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED # 6: “The Scarlet Letter” By Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted by P. Craig Russell Jill Thompson, artist D. H. Lawrence said that there could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than The Scarlet Letter, which makes it ideal material for CLASSICS [...]
Kick off Summer with Papercutz!
June 1, 2009 by Michael Petranek
Filed under Papercutz Blog
Hi Everyone! Editorial Assistant Mike Petranek here, very pleased to see that our blog readers have reacted with such excitement to the latest posts by Editor-In-Chief Jim Salicrup and PAPERCUTZ contributors Scott Lobdell, Greg Farshtey and Sho Murase. We love to hear your thoughts, and the upcoming HARDY BOYS, BIONICLE, and NANCY DREW volumes are [...]
Interview with Tales from the Crypt Contributor Arie Kaplan + More Reviews!
April 20, 2009 by Michael Petranek
Filed under Papercutz Blog, reviews
Hi everyone! It’s Editorial Assistant Mike Petranek writing about a cool interview with TALES FROM THE CRYPT contributor Arie Kaplan and some more great reviews to share with you! Arie wrote “Jumping the Shark” which was illustrated by Mr. Exes in TALES FROM THE CRYPT graphic novel #4, as well as comicbook #6, serving as [...]
Have You Checked Out “Through the Looking-Glass”?
April 16, 2009 by Michael Petranek
Filed under Papercutz Blog, reviews
Hi there everyone! This is editorial assistant Mike writing about a book that’s been out for a while and has been steadily becoming one of our most popular volumes. I’m talking about CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #3: “THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS”. It’s an adaptation by legendary comics creator Kyle Baker of Lewis Carroll’s sequel to “Alice in Wonderland [...]
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #4 The Raven and Other Poems
April 8, 2009 by Michael Petranek
Filed under Papercutz Blog
Hello, everyone! This is editorial assistant Michael Petranek here, writing about the new exciting CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED volume that just hit stores. “The Raven and Other Poems” by Edgar Allan Poe and illustrated by Gahan Wilson. It has already garnered rave reviews and we wanted to share one them with you. But we’ll save that for the end. First, here’s a [...]