Comics

Comics anthologies are generally a good thing, but in my personal preferences, I like ones that are on a tightly focused topic better than...

We live in a pretty amazing time for comics, as my previous post on SVA's graduating class suggested. You could spend the whole day doing nothing but looking at mind boggling art on Tumblr. And once in a while something clicks. One young cartoonist who crossed my radar of late is Talya Modlin, whose webcomic is called Blimpakind!

I think this statement from the family of Bill FInger, the long uncredited co-creator of most of the Batman mythos speaks for itself. The...

Yesterday I wrote about the important Comics Unmasked art show on at the British Library. For those of us who can't go see it...

You probably already know that DC has made weekly comics a big part of their strategy as they wind down their time in NYC...

If there was ever a reason to go to England, as if more than real mushy peas was needed, this summer's "Comic Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK" exhibition at the British Library is the one. Not only is it the biggest exhibit of British comics yet, it is by far the most official, and will be, I daresay, the most influential. Curated by Paul Gravett, along with John Harris Dunning, this is no mere "Oh look comics are cool!" exhibit, but a bracing investigation of the often transgressive gutter nature of comics in a specific culture. Since there is little chance I'll be able to go see it for myself before it closes on August 19th, James Bacon's photo heavy walk-through will have to do.

As Summer 2014 starts to break onto the horizon, one of the first big launches of the year sees Mariko and Jillian Tamaki working...

Marvel it celebrating it's 75th anniversary this year, using Timely dating, and part of the celebration involves a 1200 pages omnibus collecting the best...

Amazing Spider-Man is definitely a hit—$91.6 million opening weekend—but the questions are just beginning. As are the spoilers just in case you DO NOT KNOW THE CENTRAL CANON OF SPIDER-MAN LORE. Look away, look away if you haven't seen the movie or read the comics. If you have...you may proceed.

Fun Home, the musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel memoir about her closeted gay father and her own coming out, is racking up...

If you've been reading comics for more than a few years, you're probably familiar with the traditional comics trade dress layout: publication information at...

Toon Books, the award-winning line of comics for beginning readers, is branching out with Toon Graphics for Visual Readers, a line for older readers. but not grown ups but rather 8-up, readers who have a few more compound sentences under their belts. PW has the debut story, but the first three books, all due this fall, include: