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.
Review: Cyril Pedrosa captures the hidden human web in Equinoxes
The girth of Cyril Pedrosa’s Equinoxes — 336 pages — implies narrative complication, but what unfolds is really as simple as the title suggests....
Review: The inevitable woe of ‘Birthmark’
Walking a thin line between depressing and uplifting — a line I hadn’t really thought about existing before — Nathan Jurevicius’ Birthmark brings a familiar...
DC Announces New Graphic Novel Titles for Summer 2017!
You'll notice that DC is pushing Young Animal hard, placing the titles at the front of the catalog.
There's also Rebirth stuff, plus lots of...
Marvel Announces New Graphic Novels for Spring/Summer 2017!
We might be in the middle of a polar vortex, but it's not too early to think of next Summer, as more Marvel movies...
Nice Art: These Legend posters show a world that’s gone to the cats and...
Legend by Sam Sattin and Chris Koehler has been one of the under the radar hits of the season. Published by Z2, the collection came out in...
