Preview: Josephine Baker by Muller and Bouquet captures a whole era and a timeless...
If you're looking for a real-life badass heroine, you won't find a better one than Josephine Baker.
Review: Max Andersson unpacks a family nightmare in ‘The Excavation’
Underneath the surreal nightmare presented by Swedish cartoonist Max Andersson and despite the dream logic to so much of the action in The Excavation, there’s a...
Review: Emil Ferris beckons the monsters into the light of day
It’s fair to say that Emil Ferris’ sprawling My Favorite Thing Is Monsters — volume one of a two volume work — came out...
Two graphics novels on BEA’s Buzz List: Spinning and The Witch Boy
Every year at BookExpo America there are a series of "Buzz" panels where editors hype the biggest upcoming releases. This years event takes place...
A year of free comics – Joe Ollman’s Making of The Abominable Mr. Seabrook
Drawn & Quarterly recently released Joe Ollmann’s latest graphic novel, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook. Joe Ollmann worked on this graphic for a period of...
Comic Book Book Club Report – Nicolas by Pascal Girard
In 2015, I attended a conference on health care for work. Pierre Lavoie, an athlete and event organizer did a presentation at that event....
Review: You’ll want to visit ‘The Obscure Cities’
The second English language volume in French/Belgian team Benoit Peeters and François Schuiten's The Obscure Cities series, this was recently revived through a Kickstarter campaign by Alaxis...
Review: Jillian Fleck’s bottomless pit of emotion
The most frequent bottomless thing that has popped up in my life is the idea of bottomless pits, which Lake Jehovah immediately made me...
Graphic novels sales rose 12% in bookstores in 2016 – the only adult fiction...
Publishers Weekly has an overview of bookstore sales in 2016, via Bookscan, and print sales edged up 3.3%, the third year of growth.
The...
Reviews: Gfrörer, Wiedeman, Gennis look to the past
Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer
This excruciatingly sad novella has Julia Gfrörer examining the horror of being a survivor, in a way that manages to...
Review: Hard truths in ‘Soft City’
To take Soft City at face value, there are some very simple lessons to learn from Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner. Everything is the same. There...
2017 Preview: Here are what may be the top ten graphic novels of the...
PW's annual Spring Announcements came out and give a peek at what may be the most talked about GNs of 2017.
