Graphic Novels

By Victor Van Scoit In the Marvel Universe Ultron is an artificial intelligence robot fixated on world domination. Ultron may only be a work of...

The Tony Awards nominations are out today, honoring the best on Broadway, and Fun Home tied for most nominations with 12 (An American in...

Girl in Dior has been getting great press worldwide for its depiction of one of the most influential premiere collections in fashion history, but...

Some anniversaries are painful to remember, and so is today's: the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. A while ago we told you about a graphic novel about this event, OPERATION NEMESIS: A Story of Genocide & Revenge. The book is out now and in memoriam of those who lost their lives, here's two illustrations from the book, one by Dan Panosian above and one by Harry Bogosian, below, a student of Paul Pope.

How diverse are graphic novels?  Not in themes, or character representation, but in actual non-fiction subjects? Is there a graphic novel about hot air ballooning?  How...

By Nick Eskey Known for being the fan favorite of major conventions, with its relaxed nature and lines, WonderCon has been gaining in popularity over...

Coming in March 2016. Five years in the making. pic.twitter.com/oChHUyKbQm — Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) April 6, 2015 It's been way too long since we've heard from...

Awards season is barreling along now. And here are the nominees for the LA Times Book Prizes, which added a graphic novel category several years back. It's a prestigious literary prize, and the winners over the years—Duncan the Wonder Dog, Finder, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life among them—have definitely lived up to the billing. This year's five books chosen include what I would almost call the usual suspects for 2014:

By Matt O'Keefe Short stories are a dying breed in mainstream comics, so often the best offerings are found in the independent scene. Such is the...

Kathryn and Stuart Immonen are of course well known for their stellar superhero work, but in their "spare time" they turn out some more...

Yup!  It's that time of year again!  Marvel has released their book catalog for May-August 2015, and it's chock full of reprints, collections, slipcases,...

Long before graphic novels were "respectable" there was Larry Gonick, whose Cartoon History of the Universe books were respected and bestselling looks at history as told in a fanciful but well researched cartoon style. A former calculus calculus instructor at Harvard and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, his science bona fides have never been in doubt. And he's back in January with a Cartoon Guide to Algebra. Is there a way to make the abstract more comprehensible with comics? We'll soon find out.