Tag: Graphic Novels

Fun Home, the musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel memoir about her closeted gay father and her own coming out, is racking up the awards following a limited run at the Public Theater....

How does gender break down for some of the more popular "indie" graphic novels versus mainstream graphic novels vs the average? And it's clear, there's a difference. Taking 17 various graphic novels (and if folks add suggestions in comments, I'll be happy to add upon this) I looked at men and women who were fans in the United States. I tried to stick to actual graphic novels, or books that have been long out of print and thus a complete graphic novel is how it's now consumed.

By Brian Hibbs (Originally published February 2014) “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” For the eleventh (!) year in a row, I’m going to try to figure out something that is hard...

Titan have announced that they'll be publishing a graphic novel based on the Lost Planet series of video games from Capcom. Called Lost Planet: First Colony, the story will be written by Guillaume Dorison and...

Disclosure: from time to time I take on outside consulting projects, and I'm currently working with the creators of the new graphic novel Mission in a Bottle to do some marketing for them...

Brian Truitt, knower of all that is right and true in this world, has an interview on USA Today with writer Mark Waid, announcing a new Spider-Man graphic novel called Spider-Man: Family Business. The...

These graphic novels have been chosen because they were all released in the past 6 months and equally combine qualities of well-crafted concepts and remarkable artwork to create solid visual narratives. They aren’t the...

It's St George's Day today, so to celebrate here's an interview with the only other person on known record to have slain a dragon - Emma Vieceli, writer/artist for a number of graphic novels including...

Kick up the Kick-Watcher! Today sees the launch of Code Monkey Save World, a new 60-page graphic novel from Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton, to be brought to life by the artistic team of...

Jess Ruliffson is an illustrator and non-fiction graphic novelist, increasingly wearing the hat of a comics-medium journalist. She's working on a graphic novel based on interviews with veterans of the war in Iraq and...

The early award season for books is here, and earlier this week the American Library association handed out a slew of literary awards. As has been the recent trend, several graphic novels were recognized among the pictureless books:

Boing Boing just ran a series called Great Graphic Novels where various writer friends of Mark Frauenfelder pick just that. It's a quirky list, with, for instance, Jim Woodring picking Steve Lafler's Ménage à...