Comics on the Brain

On BlogTO, Liam O’Donnell is interviewed about graphic novels for kids. Liam is the author of Wild Ride, Orca’s first graphic novel, which is coming this fall.

And recently on Salon.com, we heard from Douglas Wolk about comics culture and how it’s changing or should be changing, with the increasing popularity of graphic novels, for both kids and adults.

Another new Orca book this fall will be a Currents novel about a comic fan: Manga Touch.

So, why are comics becoming more and more popular? They’re really fun to read, for starters! What do YOU think?

PS: What else are we up to at Orca? It’s been a while since the event, but check out this post about the launch of Just J on BookLust. What a cake!!

Fifteen million pages and counting…

In 2006, Orca Book Publishers published a growing number of titles on ancient forest friendly paper. In total this came to more than fifteen million pages of paper that did not require more trees to be cut down.

Ancient Forest Friendly paper is totally chlorine free or processed chlorine free and contains only the following fibres:
• Post-consumer recycled fibre
• De-inked recycled fibre
• Agricultural residue
• Forest Stewardship Council certified virgin fibre

Go ahead, hug a tree!