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Continuing a run of graphic novels on the bestseller charts, Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (The New 52) by Scot Snyder,...

Adding to a pile of kudos that you will soon be able to make an actual building from, Chris Ware's great Building Stories has won the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for 2013. Heads or Tails by Lilli Carré (Fantagraphics) and The Understanding Monster—Book One by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) were the honorable mentions. The Prize is presented each year by Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to "the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident."

Youth in Decline is another in the exploding field of Risograph-based micro-publisher run by Ryan Sands, perhaps best known for his Umezu-obssessed blog Same...

News of Apple's decision to ban SAGA #12 from any app-based storefronts spread like wildfire yesterday, prompting outrage and head shakes from those who...

Despite what other may say, Lisa Hanawalt's Y DUMB DITY EYES, colelcting her humorous and mysterious cartoons and drawings from recent years, is quite...

§ A few little MoCCA wrap-up thoughts and posts: I particularly like this post from Alexandra Beguez because her table with Estrella Vega &...

Pulp heroes unite in Dynamite's upcoming Shadow and The Green Hornet team-up, which will be written by Michael Uslan with covers by Alex Ross and John Cassaday, and interior art by Keith Burns.

In this week's More To Come, myself, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons go over time to discuss Havok and the M-Words, the new Madefire/Deviant Art team up, and go live from MoCCA floor with interviews with steering committee members Karen Green and Tucker Stone, and First Second's Mark Siegel, creators James Romberger and Marguerite van Cook and get the latest on Borb from Jason Little. In it' two parts because the awesomeness was just too immense for one part.

In 2006, Zack Snyder's 300 was a innovative blockbuster that gave America's frustration over the war in Iraq an acceptable outlook, made Gerard Butler's...

Okay here is a thing which is cool: PEPITA: TAKEHIKO INOUE MEETS GAUDÍ a hardcover travel diary comprised of prose, sketches, and artwork by Takehiko Inoue, creator of SLAM DUNK, REAL, and VAGABOND. Inoue, whose sensitive pen and ink drawings are gorgeous by any standard, went to Barcelona and became entranced, as so many do, by the imagination and beauty of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí which lies over the landscape of Barcelona like a surreal lace scarf. culminating in the still unfinished Sagrada Familia, the famed twisty, turny cathedral that unites the gothic and the modern in one stunning building.

Brigid Alverson shows us how it's done in this comprehensive report on the state of the US manga market. The big shock is that despite sales shrinkage since the boom years, it's still a relatively stable market:

Production is underway on Captain America: The Winter Soldier — it will film in LA, Cleveland and Washington DC. Anthony and Joe Russo direct...