Four days already?? I cannot slow the ticking of the clock!! Appropriately, there are four publishers for this fourth entry.
Disclaimer: my information stems from the monthly PREVIEWS catalog created by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. Please feel free to make corrections or inform me of additions.
Established: 1937
Official Name: Watson-Guptill
Place of Origin: New York, NY
Distinction: Watson-Guptill has a storied legacy of publishing hard-working and influential illustrated art books. We seek out respected authorities who instruct and inspire artists in a wide range of art and craft[1].
Operations: Ernest Watson, Arthur L. Guptill (founders)
Output: Our list covers both fine art and practical art instruction in traditional disciplines such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking, with standout authors like Juliette Aristides of the Atelier series and Rudy De Reyna, author of How to Draw What You See. We also publish modern books focused on artistic pursuits such as craft, collage, mixed media, comics, sequential art, cartooning, manga, and animation, written by such authorities as Burne Hogarth, Stan Lee, Brian Michael Bendis, Camilla D’Errico, and Chris Hart. Watson-Guptill books are found on the shelves of both amateur and professional artists around the world[2].
Branches: Amphoto Books, Backstage books, Billboard books
Social Media: @CROWNPUBLISHING ; Facebook
Multi-Media: N/A
Established: 1926
Official Name: William Morrow and Company
Place of Origin: New York, NY
Distinction: William Morrow has published many renowned fiction and non-fiction authors, including Ray Bradbury, Elmore Leonard, Neal Stephenson, Erle Stanley Gardner, B.H. Liddell Hart, Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon[3].
Operations: Officially under the auspices of HarperCollins Publishers.
Output: One of the industry’s premier fiction and nonfiction publishers, William Morrow is home to bestselling and award-winning authors such as Ted Bell, Ray Bradbury, Meg Cabot, Patricia Cornwell, Deborah Crombie, Diane Mott Davidson, Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Tim Dorsey, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dorothea Benton Frank, Neil Gaiman, Andrew Gross, Joe Hill, Greg Iles, J. A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Christina Baker Kline, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Laura Lippman, Gregory Maguire, Christopher Moore, Elizabeth Peters, Peter Robinson, James Rollins, Neal Stephenson, and Charles Todd. Our bestselling nonfiction authors include Gregg Allman, Bruce Feiler, Chris Kyle, Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Frank Warren, Ree Drummond, Guy Fieri, the Emily Post franchise, Debbie Reynolds, and Willie Nelson[4].
Branches: William Morrow Paperbacks.
Social Media: @WmMorrowBks ; Facebook
Multi-Media: N/A
Established: Unknown
Official Name: Wisdumb Productions
Place of Origin: Unknown
Distinction: Production company focusing on Kickstarter comics.
Operations: Unknown
Output: Escape from Jesus Island
Branches: N/A
Social Media: Facebook ; http://jesusisland.com/tag/wisdumb/
Multi-Media: Escape from Jesus Island has been optioned as a video game. Film company that produced The Wrong House.
HHHUUUMMM, it’s perplexing and disappointing that very little exists about this publisher.
Established: 1923
Official Name: W.W. Norton & Company
Place of Origin: USA
Distinction: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/aboutcontent.aspx?id=4386
Operations: Unknown
Output: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/aboutcontent.aspx?id=4386
Graphic Novels: Kill My Mother: a Graphic Novel ; In Search of Lost Times: Swann’s Way, a Graphic Novel ; Forget Sorrow: an Ancestral Tale and many more!
Branches: N/A
Social Media: @norton_fiction ; Facebook.com/wwnorton ; YouTube.com/wwnorton ; Flickr.com/wwnorton ; Scribed.com/wwnorton ; delicious.com/since1923 ; friendfeed.com/wwnorton
Multi-Media: N/A
[1] http://crownpublishing.com/imprint/watson-guptill/
[2] Ibid.
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morrow_and_Company
[4] http://corporate.harpercollins.com/us/harpercollins-imprints
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