The Lerner Blog

Both myself and Danny Lerner, who just joined us at the Graphic Universe office, attended MoCCA Fest this year. It was Danny’s first time, and my ninth. Below we offer our reports. Danny, being the newbie, will go first and give the event a proprer introduction. The 2011 Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) […]Read more "Graphic Universe at the MoCCA Festival"

I loved that everyone who went to Bologna this year came back talking about the food. There was a steak dish, with greens and shaved parmesan on top, that really caught everyone’s attention. I plan to make it as soon as it’s warm enough to grill on my deck. I came back from my Paris […]Read more "Thinking about Food"

Congratulations to Dana! She is the winner of our Civil War Week book giveaway! Her fabulous Civil War Week book bundle includes: Dana, please send an email with your address to lmatvick@lernerbooks.com and I will get your books in the mail for you ASAP! Thanks for honoring the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with […]Read more "Civil War Week Winner!"

April 20th will mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Gulf of Mexico Oil spill. I asked Elaine Landau to share a little of the story behind her book about the spill. I’m writing this blog post on a beautiful Florida beach. The sun is out, the sand is white, and the ocean […]Read more "Gulf Oil Spill—One Year Later"

Of course, one could ask far more than six questions about this conflict that ravaged our country and took the lives of so many men and boys, as well as some women. Our series Six Questions of American History tackles iconic events in American history and uses the journalistic six questions—who, what, when, where, why, […]Read more "Six Questions about the Civil War"

According to her memoir, this was the question Sarah Emma Edmonds asked herself upon hearing President Lincoln’s call for men to join the Union Army. This seems to be the beginning of one of the most unusual soldier’s stories among the millions of soldier stories in the history of the Civil War. And yet this […]Read more "“What part am I to act in this great drama?”"

I can trace my own interest in the Civil War (1861-1865) to a story on the maternal side of my mother’s family, who were from the border state of Missouri. The tale centers on a great-great-grand uncle who first saw the woman he would eventually marry on a train platform while rolling through the South […]Read more "Letters Home"

Not only is it the sesquicentennial of the beginning of the Civil War, April 9 also marked 146 years since General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant. How much do you know about the surrender? Until I read Willie McLean and the Civil War Surrender, I completely misunderstood one part […]Read more "Willie McLean and the Civil War Surrender"

“All were quiet, serious, and thoughtful, as we [went] back to our quarters to tell our children and our wives that all our hopes of peace were blasted and that our once happy and prosperous country was plunged into the horrors of civil war.” –a Union army officer At 4:30 AM on April 12, 1861, […]Read more "Civil War Week"