graphic novels Archives

By Olly MacNamee. A monthly review spotlighting the best titles the UK indie press has to offer. Bloodfellas (Markosia) Christopher Marlowe and the Bards

Made into a film, it is one of the more criticially acclaimed comics for recent years. Yet, despite a lack of graphic violence, sexuality or offensive language, and also despite being first published over ten years ago, it has found itself taking second place on the American Library Association's 2014 Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books. It is joined[...]

There are strong launches for Spider-Gwen, Silk, Nameless… and Star Wars #1 still makes it onto the top 100 a month later, grabbing the 53rd slot the month after going on sale. And for graphic novels, Image still dominates with Sex Criminals, Fade Out, Chew, Saga, Trees and Starlight pushing the traditional Walking Dead volumes down the[...]

They publish all kinds of stories, specialise in graphic novels and know the book market and libraries…naturally I figured they wouldn't be interested Publishing is never that simple My concern was working with another book publisher and knowing how slow the book world can be, but they were really quick in making a decision, communicative[...]

If you have kids and are comics and graphic novels inclined, or simply a fan of mythology in comics like myself, chances are you've come across the Olympians series from MacMillan These remarkably high-quality, emotional, and entertaining tales of Greek Mythology are drawn and written by Brooklyn-based artist George O'Connor and they've ranked in the[...]

By Cameron Hatheway In the wise words of Mel Brooks, “It’s good to be the king!” Especially when you can appoint your daughter to do your tiresome job of

Powell, the artist for the graphic novels, was kind enough to answer some of my questions in an email interview. Cameron Hatheway: Your illustrations of 1960s America really come to life, capturing the tone of the time perfectly What kind of research went in to some of the iconic settings? Did you travel a lot to[...]

By Cameron Hatheway Imagine, if you will, a scenario where you’re approached by Death and given the opportunity to mold and transform any material to your

Aimed at promoting literacy, free speech and comic books as a whole, in the light of a greater variety of graphic novels available, the greater public awareness of comic books – or at least that inspired by comics, and the events of Charlie Hebdo, it can't come fast enough. Here's a poster coming to stores, who[...]

By Cameron Hatheway When March: Book One was released back in August 2013, it coincided perfectly with the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, a

By Cameron Hatheway February 3rd marks the release of Scott McCloud’s long-awaited graphic novel The Sculptor from First Second Books. Best known for his

Joe #1 at #965. For graphic novels, it's a very different story, with Image Comics having 9 out of the top 10 and 14 out of the top 20 Dc's first title comes in at 9 with Batman: Court Of The Owls and Marvel's at 11 with Guardian Of The Galaxy But neither DC or Marvel are[...]

By Rich Johnston and Hannah Means-Shannon Following on from last year's "Best" lists to create a Bleeding Cool tradition, Rich Johnston and Hannah Means-Shannon put their heads together to pick out the landmark works in the comics medium of 2014, here specifically presenting the best graphic novels This category has been delineated based on personal agreement[...]

 (It's worth keeping in mind that OK Comics is a shop, in the business of selling comics and graphic novels And our list reflects our effort to include something for everyone). 1 SUPERCRASH! Educational, Inspirational! Darryl Cunningham Investigates how society got in this financial mess! From Myriad Editions. 2 LOVE BUNGLERS Xaime/Jaime Hernandez's perfect study of a[...]

For those who have an appreciation for the difficulty behind creating graphic novels, whether from the perspective of writing or art, they are bound to read this book with eyes keyed toward the choices the creators made to handle challenging material and the grace notes they strike along the way. Aleister Crowley: Wandering the Wastes is[...]

I recently heard someone talking about Nobrow Press books at Thought Bubble in the UK and saying what great gifts they made. They are certainly high in

About Z2 Comics: Z2 Comics (formerly Zip Comix) is a purveyor of fine graphic novels Based in NYC, the company was founded by Josh Frankel in 2009 Z2's focus is eclectic, publishing genre works that feature fine storytelling and great production Z2 released Harvey Pekar's Cleveland in 2012 which gained two Eisner Award nominations for artist[...]

By Cameron Hatheway From page one, you’re hooked. Gun-wielding masked thugs have the protagonist surrounded, threatening to blow his head off if he

We mentioned the launch of iVerse Media's new update for their ComicsPLUS app earlier today, with a host of new features designed it seems, to take on ComiXology at it's core. Incorporating pirated files alongside paid for files, creating your own not-Guided View experiences, and more, another feature is that of being able to digitally "rent" graphic[...]

Hopefully, you know by now what beautiful books Nobrow puts out and how their art comics have extended into graphic novels that have helped shape our view of the potential of the medium in recent years Recently, they released information about 10 books that will be part of their Spring catalog (not even including their[...]

We've mentioned before here on Bleeding Cool that Titan Comics have brought back a mammoth series by Jack Katz known as The First Kingdom, and even

You may recall, we ran some pretty luscious preview pages of the Nobrow graphic novel Moonhead and the Music Machine  by Andrew Rae, and I couldn't resist

 Working with Lovecraft is "rife" for using your imagination, he said. During audience Q &A, Rob Davis confirmed that after The Motherless Oven graphic novel, which he both wrote and drew, he may continue to do illustration or smaller jobs to make money, but the trajectory he's following is into purely original graphic novels in the[...]

By Cameron Hatheway Halloween: the one time of year when the rest of the world cosplays along with us. The only real difference is the obscene amount of

Readers claim to be looking for something new and unusual when they head to their local comic book shop, and Dark Horse is releasing a graphic novel that

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Our very own Bleeding Cool friends Talking Comics got involved in Banned Books Week in Shreveport, Louisiana by doing a

For Anda it's gaming, for me it was fandoms and art communities. CH: What graphic novel or comic(s) have inspired you recently? JW: There are so many! Off the top of my head, for graphic novels: This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, How to be Happy by Eleanor Davis,[...]

By Cameron Hatheway When Cory Doctorow first came up with the story of In Real Life, it was as an article on Salon.com titled “Anda’s Game” almost 10

By Cameron Hatheway Growing up, I had several friends who had divorced parents. The majority of them stayed with their mothers and saw their fathers on

By Cameron Hatheway September 30th marks the release of The Rise of Aurora West from First Second Books, the prequel to Paul Pope’s Eisner award-winning