Bring On The Book Publishers

No one should be surprised that the Sacramento Bee's look at the Fall season in books would include Marisa Acocella Marchetto's Cancer Vixen from Knopf. As I understand the work, it's a longform comic, a memoir, a survival story, and a portrait of a woman's life in New York -- areas of exploration and expression all of which have yielded successful bookstore offerings over the last ten years. The release becomes worth noting, I think, in that this is one of a group of comics-format books that were signed in the more traditional book publishing way as opposed to being translated works (Marjane Satrapi), or work that's been successful in another format (Brian Fies) or narrative work solicited from talent that's proven itself in other comics' arenas or in serial form (Chris Ware), or even high-concept packages (Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon). Cancer Vixen feels more like a book that happens to be a comic than just about anything seen so far, and from a perspective where one had grown used to major publisher releases bearing comics culture pedigrees, it seems like something totally different.

I know this should be "Bring on the Agented Submissions" or something like that, but I'm just that fond of alliteration
 
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