Author: Jeff Meyer

by Jeff Meyer | December 8, 2007

In January, kids will reluctantly return to school. Luckily, Classics Illustrated will join them. Classics Illustrated has introduced generations of students to great literature. These comic-book editions of novels, plays, and epic poems sold about 200 million copies from 1941 through 1998. Since then, librarians and educators have come to appreciate comics’ power to pull...

by Jeff Meyer | December 8, 2007

The American Library Association has released their list of 2007 nominees for their prestigious Great Graphic Novel Award by the Young Adult Library Services Association, with Marvel garnering seven nominations, including the chart topping, mainstream blockbuster series CIVIL WAR, by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven! Previous winners of this award RUNAWAYS and NEXTWAVE may soon...

by Jeff Meyer | December 8, 2007

Here are the final nominations for the 2008 Great Graphic Novels for Teens award, last updated updated November 21, 2007. Nonfiction Baker, Kyle. Nat Turner: Vol. 2, Revolution. February 2007. Image Comics, paper, $10.00. (978-1-58240-792-0). Fleming, Ann Marie. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. September 2007. The Penguin Group / Riverhead Trade, paper,...

by Jeff Meyer | December 8, 2007

After the harrowing, life-changing events of One More Day, Peter Parker is about to experience a Brand New Day in the extra Amazing Spider-Man #546. Arriving in stores this January, this landmark issue kicks off Amazing Spider-Man’s thrice monthly shipping, giving you three times the Spider-Man you know and love! The...

by Jeff Meyer | December 7, 2007

TFAW.com news for December 6th, 2007 This Week's 99-Cent Comic Peter Parker joins his high school baseball team in Marvel Adventures Spider-Man…

by Jeff Meyer | December 7, 2007

With Secret Invasion: The Infiltration underway and the impending mega Marvel event Secret Invasion coming in 2008-- Brian Michael Bendis sits down with the Mighty Marvel Podcast to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at the Skrull invasion, in the State of the Initiative Podcast, Part 2. The second installment of this three part series goes...

by Jeff Meyer | December 7, 2007

December 7, 2007 - NARCOPOLIS, a brand new series by Hellblazer scribe Jamie Delano, will begin in February 2008 from Avatar Press. Within the isolating cliffs of Narcopolis, citizen Gray Neighbor lives a routine of building missiles for the fight against the ever present threat of foreign evil. But a few...

by Jeff Meyer | December 7, 2007

Marvel is pleased to announce that Ultimates 3 #1 (of 5), from the red-hot dream team of Eisner-winning author Jeph Loeb and the fan favorite art team of Joe Madureira & Christian Lichtner, has sold out at Diamond (though copies may be available at the retail level). Featuring a shocking ending...

by Jeff Meyer | December 7, 2007

December 7, 2007 - SIMON DARK #1, the first issue of the new, monthly series from writer Steve Niles and artist Scott Hampton, has sold out at DC Comics and is going back to press for a second printing. “I couldn’t be happier with the reaction to SIMON DARK,” says Niles. “I really owe...

by Jeff Meyer | December 7, 2007

I've attempted having a message board associated with the ComicList web site in the past, with little to no success. So, you ask, why try again? Hope may be the mother of despair, but hope also keeps me from stopping, hope tells "do it one more time, it will work this...