CARTOONISTS BLOG AT NBM
NBM Publishing’s website to host Rick Geary, Ted Rall, and more


NBM Publishing -- home of bestselling graphic novelists such as Rick
Geary (A TREASURY OF VICTORIAN MURDER), Ted Rall (SILK ROAD TO RUIN),
and Lewis Trondheim (DUNGEON) -- has just started a blog by many of
its star cartoonists. The bloggers will include Geary, Rall, Neil
Kleid (BROWNSVILLE), Dirk Schwieger (MORESUKINE), Naomi Nowak (UNHOLY
KINSHIP), Jesse Lonergan (FLOWER AND FADE), and David Axe (WAR FIX).



The blog, at http://nbmpub.com/blog/, contains fresh comics and
commentary from the artists. In addition, the blog will replace
NBM’s present news page (http://www.nbmpub.com/news/latestnews.html)
and will announce NBM publications, author appearances, and other news.



"I'd like to think that for the first time anywhere we really are
creating a community with this blog instead of just the editors
informing their readers,” says NBM publisher Terry Nantier. “Each
artist has direct access to posting entries on this blog. You can RSS
a specific artist and talk with one or with all and the artists
between themselves as if on a panel at a con! Our readers will be
able to see snippets of our authors' new works as they're coming
along. This is the true NBM community coming to our site, and I'm
quite excited about it!"



The new works that the artists and writers are previewing on the blog
include:

• TO THE HEIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN AGE, Jesse Lonergan’s memoir of
life in the bizarre dictatorship of Turkmenistan.

• Naomi Nowak’s eerie graphic novel GRAYLIGHT.

• Neil Kleid and artist Nicolas Cinquegrani’s THE BIG KAHN. Kleid
says, “It’s the story of what happens when a New Jersey rabbi dies
and at the funeral, his family and congregation of forty years
discover that he’s been conning them: he isn’t even Jewish.”



Blogging is nothing new to NBM. The company has published
collections of comics blogs such as Trondheim’s LITTLE NOTHINGS and
Schwieger’s MORESUKINE. NBM has even run selections from these
blogs on its website.



The new blog is part of a tradition of innovation dating back to
1976, when NBM (under the name Flying Buttress) became the first
American house to publish an ongoing line of graphic novels. Visit
the company’s website for more news about the remarkable
publications that NBM will present in 2009 and beyond.



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