Review: A Kafkaesque coming-of-age-tale by Pieter Coudyzer
Walking a line between a depressing coming of age tale and a Kafkaesque expression of emotional hurt manifesting itself physically, Outburst ends up twisting...
EDM meets comics with Paul Oakenfold graphic novel
We've followed Z2 Comics on its journey for several years here – and publisher Josh Frankel is a Certified Beat Pal – but of...
Review: ‘The Wendy Project’ gives Peter Pan a new context
Fiction is an integral part of reality. It’s how human beings take the circumstances of their lives and their world and frame it all...
TOLJA! IDW and Glénat team up for new “Original Graphic Novel” initiative with Carey,...
Here's a big deal that's also very smart: IDW Publishing and the huge French comics publisher Glénat are launching a new joint initiative, “Original Graphic Novel”, which is...
NPR’s list of 100 Favorite Comics is pretty good
As we mentioned earluer today, NPR's Glen Weldon has organized aa titanic survery to name the 100 FAVORITEE Graphic Novels. After soliciting more than...
Comics and Graphic novel sales were up 5% in 2016
...but the only area that showed growth was graphic novel sales.
TOLJA!
ALSO: Graphic novel sales beat periodical sales, $590 million to $405 million.
So please take...
Here’s your guide to comics on sale for Amazon’s Prime Day
Amazon is having it's annual Prime Day promotion, which gives extra discounts and specials just for Prime members. You can join free for a...
Review – The Riveting Biography of a Compelling Journalist in Joe Ollmann’s The Abominable...
Joe Ollmann's The Abominable Mr. Seabrook is a riveting read. An incredibly compelling portrait of a man whose life is the very definition of "larger...
The Top Ten graphic novels of the fall!
Oh speaking of Publishers Weekly, this week the twice yearly Announcements issue, and I have of a full listing of 50 of the most intriguing...
More on The Future of Comics: the rise of Valerian and comics at ALA
I got quite a response to my rant on the ascent of graphic novels and and decline of the periodical that ran last week.
While...
Review: The quiet poetry of Chaboute’s ‘Alone’
It’s 84 pages in before the subject of French graphic novelist Chaboute's largely silent work Alone finally appears, and even then, it’s only in the...
Review: Assessing the damage in ‘Roughneck’
Jeff Lemire has become quite a prolific comics creator since 2008. He’s largely devoted himself to the varying forms of genre fiction that comics...
