2023 Underground Art Market Report
Few American cartoonists are as adored as Bill Watterson, or as reluctant to embrace that adoration. In 1985, Watterson began publishing Calvin and Hobbes, his syndicated newspaper comic strip about a mischievous Midwestern 6-year-old and his best friend, who is either a talking tiger or …
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By Brandon Schatz, with edits and contributions by Danica LeBlanc Today, a lot of the air in comic industry discourse is being gobbled up by an op-ed written by Phil Boyle, the owner of the Coliseum of Comics chain down in Flordia. In the article, Phil has …
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In an annoucement from Mad Cave Studios, it was revealed that Silver Vessels by Steve Orlando and Katie Vecchio is incoming from the publisher’s Maverick imprint. The graphic novel is scheduled for publication in March 2024, but you can get your first look at the cover today, here …
Read MorePress Release Winner of the Boscarato award for “Best YA Graphic Novel,” Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard is a new graphic novel coming next July about the topic of gender-based violence. Due to release on July 2, 2024 (and comic shops on July …
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Vikings get plenty of buzz these days, as I’ve blabbered about previously, and their associated history, lore, and customs have inspired many releases in the realms of art and entertainment. Comics are no exception to this, and may, in fact, even be considered a major …
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Julian Chambliss wants us to think about the future — specifically how Black people are imagining it for themselves. Chambliss is an Afrofuturism scholar. It’s a concept that started with science fiction, where Black people get to write and tell their own story of the …
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Uh oh, comics are dying again. We went a good while without being dying, but it’s official, they are dying. The diagnosis was delivered by retailer Phil Boyle in a piece at ICV2 entitled “COMIC STORES 2023: ‘IT’S NEARLY 2024 AND I’M MORE THAN CONCERNED.” …
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Grace Lapointe’s fiction has been published in Kaleidoscope, Deaf Poets Society, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and is forthcoming in Corporeal Lit Mag. Her essays and poetry have been published in Wordgathering. Her stories and essays—including ones that she wrote as a college student—have …
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Hey, nerds! This weekend (Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10–11, 2023) Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City is the place to be if you love comic books, super heroes, gaming, pop art, collectible toys or any of that nerdy stuff. Wasatch Comic Con is put …
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023 Emotions run high during library meeting By Abigail Miller Photo by Leslie Klosterman/The Daily Standard A sign points Mercer County District Library patrons in the direction of the recently-created adult graphic novel section on Wednesday. CELINA – Less than 24 hours …
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