Review: Aama is intelligent, mind-bending science fiction with a core of humanity
Taking the idea of awareness and screwing with it from multiple vantage points — self-awareness, awareness of the space around you, familial awareness, scientific...
JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts has fantastic books…but will there ever be comic books?
An extensive publishing program has just been announced for the fall launch of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the new JK Rowling-written...
Review: Backderf’s ‘Trashed’ is definitely our treasure
For most of my life, the comings and goings of garbage was pretty much a mystery to me. When I was a kid, I...
Sales Chart: Scholastic was the #1 graphic novel publisher in bookstores and more from...
Comics Experience owner Brian Hibbs has done his annual service to the industry byanalyzing the yearly graphic novels sales charts as reported to Bookscan. This is information people normally pay thousands of dollars for so it is technically leaked info, but while it's there let's take advantage of it. As Hibbs points out, these numbers do not reflect comics shops, indie bookstores, book fair or libraries, to name but four huge outlets for GN sales. So they are not complete. However they are a metric , and one that's worth studying.
Review: 750 Years In Paris offers details within the broad stroke of history
Given the recent tragic events in Paris, Vincent Mahé’s absolutely stunning 750 Years In Paris is a sprawling reminder that this is not the...
George R.R. Martin says ‘The Winds of Winter’ will not arrive before the new...
For the first time, the television adaptation will outpace its source material in full
And here’s the cover to Kate Beaton’s King Baby
That Kate Beaton book we told you about has been officially announced. And yes, it's called King Baby, and here's the cover, courtesy...
New book from Kate Beaton coming in 2016
Following the success of The Princess and the Pony , Kate Beaton has a follow up children's book coming from Scholastic in 2016, at least as indicated by this tweet.
Margaret Atwood is writing a series of all-ages graphic novels for Dark Horse
Canadian literary treasure Margaret Atwood has been toying with comics for a while, showing up at conventions and expressing her interest in the form. And now she's taken the plunge! With a band new graphic novel, Angel Catbird, which will be illustrated bu Johnnie Christmas (Sheltered). The book is the first in a trio of all-ages (!) graphic novel that tell the story of "an unusual superhero. The first book comes out in fall of 2016, published in conjunction with Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives, a charity led by conservation group Nature Canada.
Why are there no women “Modern Masters” of comics?
When I saw an item about a new book in TwoMorrows Modern Masters from Paolo Rivera in my feed I thought "Oh cool! Rivera...
BookCon’16: BookCon Tickets go on sale Thursday, November 12 at 12:00 PM CST!
Sure, lots of people are silently panicking over preregistration for Comic-Con International, and most haven't even thought about what to do for Thanksgiving (I'll be...
What the Goodreads Readers Choice Best Comics semi-finalists tell us about ourselves
These are only semifinalists, but you can add the Goodreads Choice Awards to the beginning of the end of year comics best lists. They only show the semi finalists as pictures but as far as I can make out it is:















