Graphic Novels

I'm flying out to cover Image Expo and Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, but if I was sticking around San Francisco you'd be certain to see me at Sonny Liew's book release tour stop at The Isotope. Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye has already been declared "2016's first superalitve graphic novel" by our own Kyle Pinion, great review from NPR's Fresh Air, and it's already part of the discussion for what is 2016's first comics masterpiece. What's happening and where else can you see him?

Millennials are often portrayed by the older generation - my own, to be clear - as a generation of victims. Like most cross-generational proclamations,...

It was a fantastic day for artful, intelligent comics when the New York Review of Books added comics to its publishing line. The focus so far...

Controversy! The title of "First Great Comic of 2016" is hotly contested this year!

For most of my life, the comings and goings of garbage was pretty much a mystery to me. When I was a kid, I...

Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi’s The Book Of Hope is as mysterious and elusive as the human being it examines. Set in a family cottage...

Julia Wertz’s Eisner-nominated Drinking At The Movies, originally from 2010 but here with a handsome reissue from Koyama Press, is renowned for its humorous...

Nick Drnaso’s fictional world is a particularly joyless one where even coming together doesn’t much help the human condition. It might even make things...

The Lynda Barry renaissance that's been underway at D&Q for the last few years with What It Is, Syllabus and reprints of her early...

Last year, Marvel launched their new Star Wars comics by offering remastered editions of the original comic book adaptations. Well...  next March, Lusasfilm Press will release...

Papercutz, the kids-friendly brainchild of Terry Nantier and Jim Salicrup, has announced 41 new titles for Fall 2016! They have an interesting mix: original graphic...

As we wrap up our big picture look at where it's at, here's a piece that Calvin Reid and I put together for Publishers...