graphic novels Archives

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

By Cameron Hatheway When you were younger, did you ever tell your mother that you hated her? That you wished she was dead? You might still feel the same

By Bart Bishop Graphic novelist Brian Wood’s Channel Zero (2000) and The Couriers (2003) fuse baroque sequential art with misanthropic prose. Wood’s

By Emir Pasanovic In my last text, I mentioned in a few places how beautiful Croatia's coast is, but how can I portray how much the sea really shapes the

By Cameron Hatheway In a post-apocalyptic world where demons, zombies and agents of the damned roam the earth, only one gang known as the Wrenchies are

By Alasdair Stuart Terry Martin is one of the hardest working people in modern genre fiction. The head of the award-winning The House of Murky Depths,

Moonhead and the Music Machine is a wild title, but we like them strange in comics, however the title doesn't really prepare you for the even wilder

This Saturday, the Guardian newspaper is to fill its Weekend magazine with comics. New comics. Though written by authors more associated with literary

We'll get more stats later, but for now here's the top fifty sales of comics and graphic novels in March 2014 As we noted, DC grabbing the top four spots hasn't happened for some time, but Marvel dominated marketshare in both sales of comics and in dollars received, with twelve of the top twenty and[...]

AC And Scott Brown write for Bleeding Cool: You know what we love almost as much as comics? A good controversy. Combine the two, and we’re sold. KRANTZ

This again. Sigh. It emerges that, despite being successfully distributed and sold for months in the UK, recent lines of licensed comics have, apparently,

Mark Stafford is the guy who did the covers my Civil Wardrobe and all the Avengefuls books. Oh sure, some will look to his work on Cherubs, The Lovecraft

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That changed and the books did gain a comic store distribution route, but at a significantly smaller wholesale discount than usual graphic novels Dyanmite seems to be seeking to reverse that with their Dynamite Art Editions. But even so, I do hope Dynamite sends Scott Dunbier a comp copy… It was Scott Dunbier's idea originally, though[...]

Fans of the animated film Rio will be getting a double douse of their favorite characters starting in March as Papercutz introduces a new line of graphic novels that will be followed a month later by the theatrical release of Rio 2. Papercutz, the industry's leading children's graphic novel publisher, will introduce fans to the box[...]

Back in June, a South Carolina library pulled their copy of Neonomicon from the adultbookshelves, after a 14 year old girl withdrew it using her mother's

Jae Lee will be doing similar (with their Jae Lee exclusive cover of Masks #1) on the 28th. MEDIA DISCOVER COMICS ONE MORE TIME Partly as a result of the Costa Book Awards nominating two graphic novels on their 2012 short list, the media has been discovering comic books again Apparently some of them aren't just for[...]

It was a big jump and a good month and it will be a record — but we're still a ways from the magic figure of $10 million in the Top 300 TPBs. Final estimates next week. — The comic-book industry's momentum continued unabated into October, and in fact, grew, setting yet another record in a year of[...]

I've just got back from Brighton, from a family trip for a couple of days (thank you wi-fi). While I was there I was able to potter with the kids to

This morning, Apple opened the Comics & Graphic Novels iBookstore section Here's the full list in order of popularity The free New Avengers #1 has hit the top, followed by the reworking of Interview With A Vampire from Anne Rice, Claudia's Story, Comic Bibles, The Batman Files and Bibi: Book One There's plenty of Walking[...]

You recently reported how DC Comics was outselling Marvel in terms of graphic novels and trade paperbacks in comic stores Yet in every comic shop I go into, I'm more likely to see Marvel hardcovers on the shelf? What's going on?" It's not just DC trade paperbacks selling quicker than Marvel, Retailers are relatively good at[...]

We ran the top ten graphic novel sellers of 2011 a couple of days ago. Well, here is the top 500, distributed by Diamond to North American comic stores.

The Sun Journal of Lewiston, Maine, reports that last night the ten strong board of the Regional School Unit votes that Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics

 Now, they're taking many of the best-selling graphic novels and collections ever published off of their shelves. There is, of course, a very interesting tangent to this tale — with the country's major book chain taking many of the most popular DC titles off its shelves, and with DC's comic book visibility as high as it's[...]

For new visitors to the site, do check out the front page for more stories… Last week, Bleeding Cool reported on DC Comics' plans to release 100 graphic novels exclusively on the Amazon Kindle Fire. Well now the other shoe has dropped I understand that Barnes & Noble executives are furious over this, specifically citing DC's reluctance[...]

It also owns the Waterstones chain of bookstores, that has survived in a market despire the departure of Borders UK. Now HMV is to close sixty stores nationally out of four hundred stores, after reporting a Christmas slump in sales of 14% year on year and admitting it is having trouble meeting the terms of a[...]

Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas. Borders, the national bookstore chain in the USA, have announced that they will be delaying payments to publishers. Borders has