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Navigating monthly orders is a bone-numbing pain. I feel as though this is something I write a variation of in most of these columns....

Here’s the sixth part of my interview with the late Steve Moore, with more to follow. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th parts...

By David Nieves 2014 has been quite a year for Aspen Comics, following their 10th anniversary in '13, the house that Michael Turner built made...

We've been engaged in a rewatching of The X-Files here at Stately Beat Manor for the last few months and wow, does it hold up.

As they did last year, the Study Group cartoonist have rolled out a whole week of seasonal comics including: The Gemini Three – Part 1...

No one is better than Charles Burns, and his unnamed trilogy—X'ed Out, The Hive and the new Sugar Skull—may be an even greater achievement...

Few comics are as suitable for Halloween reading as Robert Kirkman's Outcast, which opens with a gruesome, intense demonic possession, and continues with an exploration of a great central character,  Kyle Barnes, who has to deal with his own connection to possession and the demonic world. We all know Kirkman is a horror master, but Azaceta's art on the book is sleek and controlled, aided by top notch colors. The first collection of Outcast comes out in December.

This extraordinary book—surely one of the most beautiful picture books of the year— has a complicated history. It began with Mattotti's phenomenal illustrations, originally...

The long running The Last Halloween is an engrossing tale about a girl and some monsters.

These prices are so low they are terrifying!

Alex Schubert's Blobby Boys go on a rampage of referencing Ben Jones and Charles Burns in this episode. And check out the rest of Vice's comics—maybe Halloween themed ones this week!

F YEAH!!!!!! If there is one Halloween tradition in comics that must be kept is a new digital comic by Emily Caroll! Her previous uses of the digital palette to create horror has made her one of the few true autuers of "future comics"—and the print iteration, Through the Woods is one of the best graphic novels of the year. Her previous horror comics like His Face All Red, Margot’s Room, Out of Skin and The Hole the Fox Did Make are all classics of terror and digital storytelling.