2023 Underground Art Market Report
For award-winning graphic novelist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, this weekend’s New York Comic-Con is more than a space to discuss the next issue of his culture-defining La Borinqueña graphic novel series. It’s also the kickoff for his work with a newly-awarded Mellon Foundation fellowship that illuminates the …
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Looking for a fresh start, Filipina-American teen Marisol Reyes gets more than she bargained for when she unlocks powerful and otherworldly abilities from a mysterious mask discovered at her great-grandmother’s wake in the new graphic novel The Mask of Haliya: Heir to the Warrior Moon! …
Read MorePress Release Dynamite Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products are teaming up for licensed comics in 2024 with fan-favorite series like Thundercats, The Flintstones, The Powerpuff Girls, and more on the way. The projects will range from comics to graphic novels, kicking off …
Read MorePunching Nazis was what superheroes were all about. As bombastic and glamorous as superheroes may be, they come from decidedly humble beginnings. The first generation of caped crusaders—the “Golden Age of Comics” in the 1930s and 1940s—were created almost entirely by Jewish writers, artists, editors …
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The Cat in the Hat, the Grinch, and other Dr. Seuss characters will star in a series of graphic novel–style chapter books to be published by Random House Graphic, the first graphic novel program featuring the Seuss characters. The program will launch with three books, …
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Open this photo in gallery: Pages from Roaming, a graphic novel by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki.Anne-Marie Coultier/Handout Roaming, the latest graphic novel from Canadian cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, is a study in contrasts: While it might appear daunting at more than 400 pages, …
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A graphic novel on the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture gives a new view of a welcome addition to a wider reconsideration of colonial and postcolonial histories Toussaint Louverture wasn’t a part of the history I was taught at school. (In Britain during the 1980s, in …
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The inaugural Dr. Seuss graphic novel program list features three chapter book series penned by comic book creators, each starring a Dr. Seuss character—the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch and Sam-I-Am—in brand-new adventures. The first installment of the Cat in the Hat series, “Cat …
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You know those hefty, expensive, painstakingly designed and impeccably assembled hardcover coffee table books you see in art museum stores that are devoted to such subjects as the Sistine Chapel, the water lilies of Monet and the Chicago skyline? Memphis filmmaker Mike McCarthy has produced …
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When you think of movies based on comics, you probably immediately think of Marvel and DC. After all, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has basically changed the film landscape. The DC movies haven’t been as successful, by and large, but they still have Batman and Superman, …
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