2023 Underground Art Market Report
Many years ago, I was having dinner with a well-known writer and his then-12-year-old daughter when the subject turned to the poet Philip Larkin. Without warning, the writer and his daughter began to recite Larkin’s funniest poem, “This Be the Verse,” a famously vulgar, sing-songily …
Read MoreToday’s a weird week for me—for once, I didn’t actually finish reading any books this past week, nor do I have any sitting in my usual pile of books that I’ve finished reading but haven’t shared yet. The novel I’ve been reading is one that …
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The 2023 Harvey Awards were presented on Friday, October 13, in a ceremony held in the Javits Center during New York Comic Con. Both Lore Olympus and Chainsaw Man won the award for the third year in a row in their respective categories. Digital Book …
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Graphic novels and comic books sales in the U.S. have grown in recent years, but the format is still a “prime target” for book ban lists. Maia Kobabe’s award-winning graphic memoir Gender Queer was named the top challenged book of 2022 and 2021 by the …
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An ICv2 Release. Sales of comics and graphic novels grew 4% in 2022, according to a new estimate by ICv2’s Milton Griepp, ICv2 announced. Total comics and graphic novel sales to consumers in the U.S. and Canada were around $2.16 billion, a 4% increase over …
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Dark Horse Comics has announced Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories, a new series of original graphic novels set in the galaxy far, far away. At New York Comic Con 2023, Lucasfilm Publishing revealed that Dark Horse‘s Hyperspace Stories line would kick off with a pair of …
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Cowabunga! Everything you wanted to know about aviation — from flying, to weather patterns, plane maintenance, airport management, crisis operations, WW II ace pilots and more- are just some of the amazing new collections of books, DVDs, audio books, video games, puzzles, CDs, graphic novels, …
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Sharing stories with others is a special kind of magic. From the sagas of ancient Greeks passed down for centuries to the modern-day mythology of iconic superheroes like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, there are adventures to be experienced and lessons to be learned from …
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It wouldn’t be a major convention without Lucasfilm Publishing crashing the party to share what they have cooking for Star Wars. Across all of their publishers, Lucasfilm came guns ablaze with new reveals from Phase III of the High Republic initiative, John Jackson Miller’s The …
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It wouldn’t be a major convention without Lucasfilm Publishing crashing the party to share what they have cooking for Star Wars. Across all of their publishers, Lucasfilm came guns ablaze with new reveals from Phase III of the High Republic initiative, John Jackson Miller’s The …
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