Review: Two successful bios of very different men

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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...

Review: Two tiny books with big differences between them

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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...

I Used To Sell You Comics: Rosie Recommends Comics For New Readers – Part...

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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.

Review: Seitchik’s ‘Exits’ offers invisibility as the beginning of transformation

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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...

Review: Rabagliati’s ‘Paul’ books remain the most insightful comics about males ever

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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...

Review: The Fun Family is less fun than you think it is and that’s...

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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...

SPX debuts, including Last Look, a masterpiece by Charles Burns

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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...

This list of Fall’s “Overwhelming Amount of Awesome New Comics” doesn’t include lots of...

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As long as we're talking "comics media," over at io9 there's a Guide to the Overwhelming Amount of Awesome New Comics Coming This Fall...

Superheroes go terribly wrong in AXIOM by Mark Waid and Ed Benes

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It's been a while since we've heard from Legendary Comics, the funnybook spin-off unit of Legendary Entertainment, but they've been spnning out some good...

Review: Sean Karemaker’s autobio comics are intense and poetic

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It’s not a visibly large book, about average looking at a glance, but Sean Karemaker’s The Ghosts We Know is more dense than most...

Review: Daniel Johnston biography sets a whole new standard

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As biographical graphic novels go, you’ve never read anything like The Incantations Of Daniel Johnston, a poetic, frenetic dive through the mind of the...

SDCC’16: Marvel Announces New Graphic Novels for 2017

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Marvel has just released their latest graphic novel catalog online! The following titles are scheduled to hit store shelves sometime in early 2017 (January-April). Since this...

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