Graphic Novels

By Nick Eskey Jennifer Crute is a native New York City artist, turned comic creator. She began her love for making art at an early...

Z2 Comics just made news last week with a new line of periodicals, and here's their fall graphic novel line, courtesy of Publishers Weekly....

This news arrived via an email ad blast in my inbox, but it doesn't change the import of it: Raina Telgemeier's Smile has been on the New York Times bestseller list for three straight years, and she also recently achieved a rare top four sweep of the spots with Smile, Sisters, Drama and the reissued colorized Babysitter's Club.

Today, cartoonist Nidhi Chanani announced that her first graphic novel, Pashmina, has been picked up by First Second to be released in 2017.  Pashmina...

Recently, right before BookExpo America commenced, the French Embassy sponsored an invitation-only symposium on French comics, the American market, and how both can benefit...

Graphic novels have a lot more prizes than they once did, including literary awards that help validate the medium. Awards season is well upon us, and I've been way behind in noting some of the most important.

Fantagraphics has been teasing something new from Daniel Clowes for a few weeks and now and here's the official word: Patience, a new 180-page graphic novel from Clowes is coming in March 2016. It's described as "an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story." Certainly the art seems like a technicolor throwback to some of Clowes earlier genre-influenced work, as well as The Death Ray.

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...