These days, it seems like you can’t turn around without stepping on a cape or two. Always the powerhouses of the comic book world, superheroes have now taken over movie theaters as well. But as much as we love our costumed crime fighters, we recognize the fact that not everyone is as excited as we […]
Way back in February 1992, when Bush (the first one) was president and the Soviet Union was freshly out of the picture, the comic book world was undergoing its own seismic changes. A band of upstart new kids on the block (not to be confused with the New Kids on the Block, still a thing way back in […]
A whole new year is upon us, with brand-new graphic novel excitement to be had. There’s a bunch more Star Wars this month, if that’s your jam (have you seen the new movie? It’s your jam.), and a fine assortment of superhero books, a really touching memoir, and some quirky sci-fi. As they don’t come much quirkier than […]
The graphic novel medium lends itself incredibly well to weirdness. Comics are frequently, wonderfully strange, in the very best sense of the word. From the very beginning, something about the format has welcomed unique sensibilities to tell stories that can’t (or won’t) be told elsewhere. Even the most mainstream material, from Superman to the Teenage […]
Whether you love superheroes or find experimental artists fascinating, we all love comic books for different reasons. But if there’s one thing comics fans can agree on, it’s that the medium;s biggest draw is the way it blends visual art and textual narrative, playing with both in various ratios that make every book unique. Still, some […]