NBM & PAPERCUTZ AT BEA
Graphic-novel publishers to unveil new projects at U.S. book industry’s
biggest annual event



Graphic-novel house NBM Publishing and its sister company, the
children’s publisher Papercutz, will reveal new projects at Book Expo
America (BEA). The trade show, the largest annual event in American
book publishing, will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center
on May 29 through June 1.

NBM’s booth, #725, stands in Hall H of the convention center’s South
Hall in the Publishers Marketing Association section. Among the
projects that NBM will have on display:

Moresukine: Uploaded Weekly from Tokyo by Dirk Schwieger. When
Schwieger drew a comics blog of his life in Tokyo, his readers dared
him to do all sorts of things — exotic, disgusting, revealing — and he
obeyed! This fascinating, funny, funky collection looks inside Japanese

society, life, thought, and food.

Why I Killed Peter by Alfred and Olivier Ka. The author retells his
childhood experience with a priest who went too far. It’s an intense
yet nuanced, gray-area graphic novel on an extremely topical subject,
poignantly and sensitively told.

Plus Dungeon: Monsters, the latest in the popular series by Lewis
Trondheim and Joann Sfar; Happy Hooligan, a deluxe collection of the
classic (and crazy!) comic strip; Nocturnal Conspiracies: Nineteen
Dreams by David B (Epileptic), a surreal collection of nighttime
fantasies; and Miss Don’t Touch Me by Hubert & Kerascoet, a tale that
only the French can offer — suspenseful and spicy yet deep and real.

Papercutz, also in the South Hall, is at #1552, with the Macmillan
group. Papercutz will reveal new editions of the best-selling BIONICLE
graphic novels, based on the popular LEGO toys—not to mention series
such as Tales From The Crypt, Classics Illustrated, Nancy Drew, and The

Hardy Boys.