Club Jade

• Interviews: Imperial City Online talks to Drew Karpyshyn, while EU Cantina caught up with KOTOR II designer Chris Avellone.

• Upcoming: Publisher’s Weekly has a roundup of movie and TV tie-in books for the summer, and gives us a few titles and authors for some of The Clone Wars tie-ins for the younger set. (via)
• Upcoming, again: Meanwhile, McE over at TFN pontificates on some stuff found at Amazon.co.uk.
• Eisner Awards: Offer congrats to the Dark Horse folks on the Clone Wars Adventures nomination on their boards.

The Eisner Awards are the ‘Oscars’ of comic books, and several familiar names have shown up on the 208 nominee list: Chiefly, the Clone Wars Adventures, edited by Jeremy Barlow, has been nominated for for Best Publication for Kids. Another familiar nominee is Red 5′s Atomic Robo with two, Best Limited Series and Best Coloring. Meanwhile, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8 was nominated for for four awards, including Best New Series and Best Continuing Series. Joss Whedon and Brian K. Vaughan are both up for Best Writer.