graphic novels
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Banned Books Week to Highlight Graphic Novels
This year’s annual Banned Books Week—a celebration of books that have been banned—will target graphic novels, those picture-filled narratives better known as comic books. And that’s exactly why Banned Books Week is taking a special interest in comics this year,…
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Reading for the Numbers
Former child star Wil Wheaton read twenty-one books last year, meeting his annual goal on GoodReads of twenty books. Then the Internet flogged him for having a goal of only twenty books, and because three of those books were graphic…
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Of Maus and Men
Arguably, no other story has been made to express absolute black and absolute white as clearly as World War II. So how can an artist integrate the textures of grey that make a story truly poignant? In an essay for…
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CONGRATULATIONS, MARINAOMI!
Our own MariNaomi represented at this year’s SPACE Awards. (SPACE stands for the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo.) Smoke in Your Eyes took 2nd place in the Webcomic Category. And her memoir, Kiss and Tell, tied for 1st in the General Category. Congratulations,…
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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
“I’m sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.” As the second anniversary of Harvey Pekar’s death…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is a living legend (and I say this from the point of view of a queerish autobio cartoonist).
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Goliath Excerpt
Today brought the release of Goliath by Tom Gauld (who was featured in our Spotlight Series this past fall). Boing Boing shares a seven-page excerpt from the Drawn & Quarterly graphic novel, lauded as a “tragic, darkly funny retelling of…
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Life Under the City
This weekend, Anthony Horton died in a fire in a New York subway tunnel. Horton, who had made a home in the tunnels, was the co-author of Pitch Black, a graphic novel “based on his life underground.” The New York…
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Graphic Renaissance
“If a comic can serve as the mediating mask of tragedy, that might help explain why graphic novels are proving so successful in depicting not only torture and war but illness, domestic conflict, even teenage trauma—anything hard to face in…
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Action! Violence! Jilted Lovers! Pulp History!
David Talbot, former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, came into Red Hill Books recently to drop off his latest creation, Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story Of The Man Who Saved America, one of the first installments in the Pulp History series…
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The Power of Graphic Novels
“We live in an anxiety about language now, I think, that has created (a) boom, an Age of Euphemism, and I do think there’s something about the comic that can move through the lies and subvert the euphemism in what…
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Refresh, Refresh
A new graphic novel translates Benjamin Percy’s short story about children of the Iraq war into brilliant color.