INTERVIEW: Simon Hanselmann on MEGG AND MOGG IN AMSTERDAM – “I’m Love and Rockets-ing...
"This is a classy toilet book, a 'Paris Review toilet book.'"
Review: ‘5,000 Kilometers Per Second’ untangles relationships with elegance
In 2010 Grand Prize winner at the Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the Lucca Comics Festival in Italy 5,000 Km Per Second, Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior...
Review: ‘Nod Away’ is human-level science fiction that looks to the big picture
The first in a projected seven-book science fiction series, Joshua W. Cotter’s Nod Away draws you in with the human drama, but keeps the science...
Are you ready for a 600 page oral history of Fantagraphics?
That was rhetorical -- of COURSE you are. At long last, after over a decade in the works, We Told You So: Comics As Art...
To do this weekend, NYC: Guido Crepax at the Scott Eder Gallery
Italian comics maestro Guide Crepax is getting what I'm willing to bet is his first ever US art exhibit this weekend at the Scott Eder Gallery in Dumbo.
Review: Tommi Musturi shows that hope isn’t easy
Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi’s The Book Of Hope is as mysterious and elusive as the human being it examines. Set in a family cottage...
Daniel Clowes is going on tour for “Patience”
Daniel Clowes new graphic novel Patience drops in late winter and it's sure to be the comic book event of the first half of...
New Releases from Fantagraphics’ FU Press: Van Gieson, Colwell, Sally
FU Press (i'e Fantagraphics Underground) is an imprint for more "edgy" material from the publisher. And they've just released a few new books from artist Derek...
The Eternaut may just be the most interesting graphic novel of the season
Here's a book that has received little attention but SHOULD, especially in a world where cartoonists are still being imprisoned and worse for their...
Gilbert Hernandez to present erotic biblical tales in Garden Of Flesh graphic novel
In a world where the word unfettered is used quite a bit, Gilbert Hernandez can truly be said to be unfettered. The Love and Rockets grandmaster is a prolific graphic novelist (in the last couple of years alone, Speak of the Devil, Loverboys, Bumperhead, and Marble Season) and no subject matter is too raw or shocking. His The Twilight Children (drawn by Darwyn Cooke) is currently coming out from Vertigo, and here's a brand new project, Garden Of Flesh
which promises Gilbert's own take on Biblical tales:
which promises Gilbert's own take on Biblical tales: Surprising: You can buy C.F.’s Powr Mastrs 4 at Walmart.com
Walmart.com has a graphic novel section, with many superhero titles, but also media adaptations and some kids comics. Many publishers have attempted to enter the world of Walmart, and some have been accepted only to be rejected when someone actually reads them and see they are filled with sex and drugs and maybe some violence.
But as of now, you can buy Powr Mastrs 4 on the Walmart website for a mere $14.23, with free shipping.
Glenn Head Talks About Revealing Something Disturbing in “Chicago”
Cartoonist Glenn Head talks about life on the streets of Chicago and what his next memoirs will be about.
