Books

Like anyone who loves comics, I’m a great fan of fantasy art. I love immersing myself in complex and imaginative dreamscapes I could scarcely have imagined, worlds that could be both just outside my window...

Prisoner 155 begins with desolation. When we first meet Simón Radowitzky, he is a solitary man trapped in a brutal prison in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. We witness him beaten savagely by indifferent guards...

The Smell of Starving Boys, the new graphic novel by Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang, is the best graphic novel I’ve read all year. The book opens with an upside-down image of a beautifully stark cliff in...

The Mercenary: Cult of the Sacred Fire is a wildly fun jolt of early 1980s Heavy Metal thrills. With its gorgeous oil-painted art, deliriously odd storyline and copious nudity, the first volume of Vicente...

Mangasia is a must-buy for anybody who wants to learn about the history of comics in nearly two dozen Asian countries. Master comics historian Paul Gravett delivers a sumptuously illustrated history of...

One of the great things about working in comics these days is that you can work from pretty much anywhere. Whether the artist is in New York or The Phillipines hardly matters these days, thanks to the miracle...

It’s been five hundred years since Martin Luther changed the world by hammering his ninety-five Theses to the doors of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, in Saxony. Those events split the Roman Catholic Church...

The best biographies bring their subject to vivid life on the printed page. Pénélope Bagieu does just that in California Dreamin', her profile of the brilliant Cass Elliot, the amazing voice at the center...

Hope Larson is delivering some of the most interesting work in comics today. Her two-volume Compass South and Knife's Edge for First Second Books are fun all-ages pirate adventure, while her work on Batgirl...

Will Eisner kept me reading comic books. Okay, it’s not quite that simple. But if it wasn’t for Eisner’s strong influence, I might have stopped reading comics when I was a teenager. During those...