graphic novels
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Fresh Comics #8: John Black’s Body
In the imagined scenario wherein my apartment burns to the ground and I lose all my worldly possessions, there are just a few things I would miss—family photographs (of course), an old wooden trunk my grandmother reupholstered and that I used…
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Graphic Novels, Fatherhood, and Asian-American Culture
I feel like I’m just a hair’s breadth away from a consensus that what I do is horrible. Guernica has a wonderful interview with graphic novelist Adrian Tomine, whose latest book Killing and Dying was recently released. Tomine talks about…
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Why So Serious?
A recently revealed 1982 DC Comics style guide created by José Garcia López shows shows the familiar cast of characters in bright colors and positive attitudes. Superheroes have fun too.
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The Rumpus Interview with Phoebe Gloeckner
Artist and author Phoebe Gloeckner talks about her semi-autobiographical novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl, just adapted into a film starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, and what she’s working on now.
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25 Years of Drawn and Quarterly
Over at NPR, Glen Weldon looks at a new anthology of Drawn and Quarterly that collects the Canadian comic publisher’s first 25 years.
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Not So Literal
These days there are so many screens showing superheroes one can almost forget that they came from comics. Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Vulture about storytelling, representation, and the places where movies fall short: We’re talking about something that’s so surreal…
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Fresh Comics #1: An Iranian Metamorphosis
The question that lingers even after reading the book is about the use of symbolism in the cartoon and who has the final say—the creator or the readers?
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What Gender Means
The Marvel universe is about to get a much-needed dose of perspective when G. Willow Wilson’s all-female team of Avengers arrives this May. NPR talked to Wilson about gender, identity, and ladies who draw: If we’re going to have an…
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Visualizing Police Brutality
Just in case the events unfolding in Ferguson aren’t enough of a reminder of the effects of overly aggressive police, The K Chronicles is compiling a series of police brutality strips.
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Straight Outta Gotham
On August 18, hip-hop and comic book nerds alike convened to celebrate the release of Volume 2 of Ed Piskor’s The Hip-Hop Family Tree, a history of the genre in graphic novel-form. In the Daily Beast, Daniel Genis explains how…
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Delving Head-First into Wonder
Often times readers dismiss graphic novels as too unrealistic to posses literary merit. That would be a mistake, argues Stefan A. Slater at The Airship, because reality isn’t inherently part of good story telling. Plenty of other fictional forms flaunt…
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The Rumpus Interview with Françoise Mouly
Comic publishing pioneer Françoise Mouly discusses bringing comics to the mainstream, life at The New Yorker, and the burdens of being legendary.