Janice Goldklang, publisher of Pantheon Books, was let go by Random House after 25 years of working for the company, according to the New York Observer.
Goldklang is the latest to fall after Random House announced massive corporate restructuring.
Pantheon has published several high-profile graphic novels, including Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, Chip Kidd’s look at Bat-Manga, the sleeper hits Persepolis and The Acme Novelty Library, and the internationally-focused I Live Here.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I’m really, really confused as to by what metric Persepolis and Acme Novelty Library are “sleeper hits.” Persepolis *maybe*, although I wouldn’t say its success was particularly unexpected, but at this point each new volume of Acme is hardly a “sleeper.”