Graphic Novels

Some dreams never turn out quite like you hope they will, and when they all come crashing down, things are going to change. Many...

Human beings have, historically, revealed a vigorous capacity for steering other human beings away from the way they are currently living into a more...

Houses Of The Holy by Caitlin Skaalrud Caitlin Skaalrud’s Houses Of The Holy is, on its a surface, a psychedelic and psychological journey through the...

Last month, Insight Editions announced a new graphic novel imprint, and how, courtesy of Publishers Weekly, we have more details: Insight Editions, best known for...

Is there a comics canon? Do we want a comics canon? Do we need a comics canon?

It’s always a pleasure when a new graphic novel biography comes out about someone I know absolutely nothing about, and I certainly had no...

Nicolas by Pascal Girard This is a deceptively simple book that takes slices from the life of creator Pascal Girard’s life that all revolve around his...

In an age of such widespread comic book popularity and prevalence, it's a great time to begin reading comics. Working in comics retail, I would often get asked for good suggestions to introduce new readers into the world of sequential storytelling. So in this series I'll be recommending some of the books that myself, my colleagues, and our customers have loved. Each week I'll focus on ten books -- five All Ages and five Teen+ -- from Big Two comics to smaller independent titles, classic runs to contemporary cult hits.

In Exits, Daryl Seitchik takes a fairly obvious, well-worn bit of symbolism and manages to make the readers’ familiarity with it into one of...

Michel Rabagliati's semi-autobiographical Paul character is one of the delights of modern comics, with each volume seamless in mixing sweet charm with a sadness...

Benjamin Frisch’s The Fun Family is one of those works that you think you know what it is about, but you don’t really. That’s...

Oh and speaking of fall debuts, here's SOME of the graphic novels deuting at SPX to be held Sept.  17 and 18, 2016 at the...