NBM NAMED "ESSENTIAL PUBLISHER OF 2006"
Publisher’s DUNGEON Named “Essential European Series”
Comics Waiting Room, one of the most prominent comics-related websites, has named NBM Publishing 2006’s “Essential Publisher” in its year-end wrap-up, “10 Essentials for 2006.” The site also listed NBM’s fantasy-comedy comic DUNGEON, by Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar, as 2006’s “Essential European Series.”
“What a year [NBM] had,” writes Comics Waiting Room’s founder, Marc Mason. “DUNGEON, BONEYARD, BLUESMAN, WAR FIX, UNHOLY KINSHIP, BROWNSVILLE, the continuing TREASURY OF VICTORIAN MURDER series, the conclusion to LUCIFER’S GARDEN OF VERSES, a new art book from Luis Royo, the continuing volumes of COMPLETE OMAHA ... Seeing [NBM’s] logo on the outside of a package that comes in the mail is the closest thing that a comics critic can get to feeling like Santa has delivered. No other publisher produces more high-quality original books.”
One of those books, DUNGEON, provoked this praise from Mason: “Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim have found a groove and keep delivering one brilliant entry in this series after another. Marvin [a vegetarian dragon who is series’ star] and the rest of the cast are such well-rounded characters that you’re sucked into their lives, no matter which era of the DUNGEON saga the creators are telling stories in. ... 2007 promises a new entry from a different part of the timeline. Barring the book turning out to be 96 pages of gibberish drawn in crayon, I can guarantee you it will be great.”
Dungeon Vol. 1: Duck Heart by Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar
Mason has been a professional journalist for twenty years, and has been writing on comics since 2000. In addition to Comics Waiting Room, he writes the weekly comics review column "Should It Be A Movie?" for MoviePoopShoot.com. You can find his “10 Essentials for 2006” at www.comicswaitingroom.com/commentary2.html and pages dedicated to NBM at www.comicswaitingroom.com/nbm.html and www.comicswaitingroom.com/nbm2.html.
Lucifer's Garden of Verses HC Vol. 3: The Student
NBM, America’s first publisher of graphic novels, has published more than 150 works that have sold more than 200,000 copies per year. The company’s publications, which showcase the diversity of comics from North America and Europe, include such best-sellers as:
• Richard Moore’s spooky-funny BONEYARD
• Ted Rall’s travelogue and political commentary SILK ROAD TO RUIN
• Rick Geary’s eerily delightful TREASURY OF VICTORIAN MURDER
• Luis Royo’s fantasy art books
• Milo Manara’s erotica
