2023 Underground Art Market Report
Rachel is a writer from Arkansas, most at home surrounded by forests and animals much like a Disney Princess. She spends most of her time writing stories and playing around in imaginary worlds. You can follow her writing at rachelbrittain.com. Twitter and Instagram: @rachelsbrittain View …
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Good graphic novels tend to appear in bookstores seemingly out of nowhere after years of rumors, scattershot serialization, “process” zines and snippets posted to social media. As literature, long-form comics are uniquely resistant to editing. As visual art, the cartoonist is in the weird position …
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1. Your Wish is My Command by Deena Mohamed (Granta) Egyptian illustrator Mohamed’s debut novel creates a magic realist world where wishes can come true. However, there are different categories: expensive first-class wishes and often treacherous, third-class wishes. We follow the individual stories of working-class …
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It’s been a banner year for comics and graphic novels, with hundreds of new-release titles hitting shelves from the Big Two (DC and Marvel Comics), indie publishers, and even creators themselves. It’s also been a year of significant change for the comics industry, as the loss …
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2023 featured a diverse assortment of literary graphic novels on an ever-increasing range of subjects. This year’s top works come from some of the form’s most celebrated creators and talented newcomers; it includes fictional work in horror, fantasy and superhero genres, plus memoirs, histories, biographies …
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Iowa State University’s Professor David Peterson teaches a course titled Political Science / Sociology 334: Politics & Society, which “examines how movies, music and memes have been inspired and influenced by American politics. Influence of the trends has grown with the rise of social media …
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Power Comics has set up shop and hung its shingle at 328 Main St. in Conway’s downtown historic district. The new store is better, brighter and much bigger — 12,000 square feet on two floors — than the old 1,600-square-foot location in a strip mall …
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Articles detailing more growth in the seemingly unstoppable manga category, the increasing respect for comics as a medium in traditional publishing, and the ongoing struggles of librarians and comics retailers were among the most-read stories on comics and graphic novels published by PW this year. …
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If you’ve been active at all on major social media platforms in the past several years, there is a more than likely chance that you’ve seen the work of New York Times bestselling cartoonist Sarah Andersen. After launching the webcomics series Sarah’s Scribbles in 2011, …
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It’s been a huge year in comics and the quality of this ever-growing medium is only getting better over time. In 2023, we saw dozens of books spanning even more genres, ranging from cape classics to introspective memoirs and layered character portraits. We’ve posted reviews …
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