Presented here, for your viewing pleasure, is this very excellent student documentary project that was completed in April 2012. It’s titled, “EPILOGUE: The Future of Print”, and it shares quite a bit to think about when thinking about the value of books published on paper, real books, verses the effects of modern day eBooks. It also shares some important thoughts about Bookstores and the human touch of actual Book Sellers.

Here’s a quick post to share some of the process that goes into making a DC Comics Graphic Novel. As an example we’re using BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN, which was written by Chip Kidd and beautifully drawn by UK Comic Book Artist Dave Taylor. This example mainly focuses on the Joker!

OK, the graphics are being shown in order and they should explain their self pretty good. Here, we get to see how the scripted page starts out as a simple layout and then it grows into a final page.

The first page shows the script sketched out by Chip Kidd and it’s also sort of mapped out with basic dialogue. By the way, this was done on Quark! Then, we get to see Dave Taylor’s blue-line ( non-photograph able ) artwork. This gets approved and then he does his light pencil work in black. Then the next image shows a lot of the deep blacks that are added on top & the art is cleaned up a little bit. OK, this is now scanned into a computer and some digital coloring is added. The last photo is the finished work sort of as it appeared in the book. Pretty cool, huh?!

Oh hell yeah! We wanna thank the very cool & extremely sexy RIP JAGGER’S DOJO website for writing a super-excellent Book Review for Chip Kidd’s new book, “SHAZAM! The Golden Age of the World’s Mightiest Mortal”. This book is doing pretty well and it’s great to see somebody excited about it. The article has some very excellent photos of the book’s contents so please be sure to check it out. Hey, just CLICK HERE! Thanks Rip!

Chip Kidd recently sat down with BOOKish Reporter, Jessi Klein to discuss his new graphic novel book published by DC Comics, “Batman: Death By Design”. They also talk a lot about books in general and on the BOOKish website they have two very excellent videos showcasing their discussion. Jessi did a very nice interview and asked a ton of great questions. Plus, Chip did a pretty decent job answering them ( ha ha ). So, Please CLICK HERE to check them out!!

Over at the FLAVORWIRE website they recently did a very excellent article about David Shields’ brand-new book, “How Literature Saved My Life”. The reason we’re sharing this is because of two reasons: One, The book was published by Knopf and Chip Kidd designed the cover jacket. Two, because it’s honestly a really great book!

“How Literature Saved My Life” is basically a memoir about the Author’s life and his battle with depression. In the story he talks about many of the real-life actual books he has read that have transformed his life. Now, the cool thing, is that this Flavorwire’s reporter tracked down a few of these books to share ( you can see their pics down below as an example ). Oh yeah, what you need to do now is just read the article. Why? Well, they do a really great job explaining all of these books and it’s pretty interesting… Hey! Just CLICK HERE!

OK, I’ll admit this is kind of a dumb thing to share but I thought it was pretty funny. The other day I was on YouTube, enjoying some music, and all of a sudden I randomly get THIS advertising banner for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 Book ( This cover was designed by Chip Kidd ). Random House created this ad to announce that the book is coming out in both the Paperback and eBook format. The cool thing is that it links directly to Random House’s special “Haruki Murakami” website. To check it out, just CLICK HERE!

Ever since Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s brand-new Batman Graphic Novel (DC Comics) came out there has been a really good buzz about it. Oh man, you know we’re really happy about that! It’s been great & we really appreciate it. But, the funny thing is, at first, all the reviews were conducted by “comic book related” blogs and websites. Then, the next wave were all the serious “Book Review people” like, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, NPR Books, etc… Now, it seems that the next wave are sites dedicated to Architecture.

Here’s a great example: Over at the ARCH DAILY website, a site dedicated to very serious Architectural News. They have a Writer named Nicky Rackard who just did a very excellent review on the book. Of course their focus on the article is “the ideas about Architecture”, that were a main theme to the story. (Thanks Nicky!) It’s a wonderful article, very well thought out, so please be sure to visit their page & give it a quick read -Hey, just CLICK HERE!

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s Classic Children Book, “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins”. Random House has released a special anniversary edition ( holographic foil cover ) and, also in honor of the book, the Seuss Estate has decided to start the “Hats off to Dr. Seuss!” campaign.

Yes, Dr. Seuss was an extremely serious Hat Collector. He had hundreds of them and, in one way or another, many of them made their way into his artwork. So, Dr. Seuss’s widow, Audrey S. Geisel, decided to open up his collection of hats to the public for a never-before-seen glimpse at the amazing array of head wear. This is the first time any of these hats have traveled outside the Seuss Estate.

The Dr. Seuss hat exhibit launched at the Children's Center of the New York Public Library (42nd Street branch). It will be in New York until February 12th, 2013, and then will go on to 15 additional locations throughout 2013. Here’s the list:

All photos are courtesy of TM & 2013 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All Rights Reserved.

Here’s an unusual video we found on YouTube the other day, it’s a Fun Book Review by a “female robot voice”, ha! Basically, it’s a summary of “The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy” by Jody Duncan Jesser, Janine Pourroy, Michael Caine, Christopher Nolan, & Chip Kidd. The book was recently published by Abrams Books and covers the history of the recent Batman Dark Knight Film Trilogy.

Random House recently hired a company to discover the statistics on ebook readers and their habits. Then, they created this series of infographics. The data is pretty interesting and might hold a few surprises, check it out.