Yale Press Log

New York Magazine calls Superheroes a "genuinely cool book"

New York Magazine got their hands on an advance copy of Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton. They decided to do an early preview of the exhibition, which premiered at the Met this past Wednesday.

New York Magazine called Superheroes a "genuinely cool book," and found it an eye-opening companion to the opening gala gossip: "For all the jokes one can make about the gala's red carpet being graced with celebrities awkwardly decked out in Catwoman leather or Captain America capes (per hostess Anna Wintour's request that attendees take the theme seriously), a look at what's actually being shown at the exhibit is rather illuminating." Read the entire preview here.

And the blog mblankier.com reviewed Superheroes, noting the "very provocative and interesting parallel" between superheroes and fashion. "All the essays, costumes, and clothing in the book," the blogger writes, "are really fantastic and really inspiring." Read the full review here.

Featuring designers including John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, and many more, this innovative book examines how the style of superheroes’ dress has influenced street wear and high fashion.

Yale loves summer reading --new titles added to our Online Sale

We've just launched our Best of Summer Reading site at Yale University Press! Our new page features a host of titles perfect to slip right in your beach bag as you head out to enjoy the sun and surf.

Delve into Tennent H. Bagley's Spy Wars and uncover details from the CIA officer who handled the famous Nosenko case. If biographies are your interest, Wayne Franklin's recently released James Fenimore Cooper is the first to draw on complete family archives of this influential literary figure. Award-winning books round out the list, with Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus receiving honors as 2007 Society for Military History Distinguished book as well as Best Book of 2006 by Amazon, and Pulitzer-nominated John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur H. Cash. (For more on Goldsworthy, click here to listen to his podcast.)

In other Press news, we've also just added new titles to our Online Sale. From Art and Humanities to Social Science, Reference and Science & Medicine, we've got hundreds of books at a 50% web-only discount. When you're ready to checkout with our secure, online shopping cart, be sure to use promo code YSALE to receive your discount.

Here's to the sunny days of summer!

NYTimes Holiday Book Review

Six books published by Yale University Press are featured in the annual New York Times Holiday Book Review, out this past weekend.

Francis Fukuyama’s America at the Crossroads was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by the Review’s editors.

Reviewer David Hajdu wrote of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction Cartoons, and True Stories, edited by Ivan Brunetti, “Now going under the name graphic fiction, no doubt temporarily, the comics are all grown up, and this anthology represents the most cogent proof since Will Eisner pioneered the graphic novel and Art Spiegelman brought long-form comics to early perfection.”

Joel Smith’s Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, was called a “smartly annotated miscellany of rare familiar sketches and finished tableaus . . . Smith’s informative text sheds more than superficial light, exploring Steinberg’s wide range of themes and techniques.”

Picasso and American Art, by Michael FitzGerald and John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882 edited by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray were highlighted in Holiday Books: Art and America.

Palladio’s Venice by Tracy E. Cooper, was highlighted in Holiday Books: Venice.

Big Splash at Small Press Expo

Ivan Brunetti's An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories made a big splash at the Small Press Expo a couple of weeks back.

Ivan's Schizo also scored an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic. In addition, awards went to two other cartoonists included in the Yale anthology: "Maakies" syndicated cartoonist Tony Millionaire and rising star Kevin Huizenga.

Read the Publishers Weekly Interview with Ivan that originally appeared Tuesday in PW Comics Week.

In the Studio...

Here is a sneak peek at In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists by Todd Hignite, the founding editor of Comic Art Magazine. In the Studio will be available in September.

2.03 Art Spiegelman, detail from “High Art Lowdown,” Artforum, December 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Art Spiegelman.

6.26 Daniel Clowes, preliminary sketch for “The Death Ray,” 2003.