Book Links: comic creators boycott award, citing lack of female nominees; YA author poses as PRH publicist; healthy world view is DC’s kryptonite

Ten comic creators, including Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns, withdraw themselves from consideration for the Grand Prix d’Angouleme, protesting the absence of any women on the list of 30 nominees. (Comic Book Resources)
DC Comics ridiculed on social media after translating dialogue from “Pakistanian” in latest issue of Superman/Wonder Woman. (The Independent)
YA author posing as Penguin Random House publicity assistant dupes bloggers into reading her book. (Bookish Antics)
Indie publisher Coffee House Press to print work by authors of colour on coffee sleeves. (Electric Literature)
The Royal Shakespeare Company to tour China, where the Bard’s work was once banned by Mao, for the first time in 2016. (The Telegraph)
Penguin Random House sells self-publishing division Author Solutions, plans to reaffirm “focus on consumer book publishing.” (The Bookseller).
Son of Hunter S. Thompson details relationship with his father in new memoir. (Salon)

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