
Manga, have you heard of it? Once a niche subset of the graphic novel market, the Japanese comics now dwarf it in popularity, and are only finding new readers (and selling more books) with each passing year. Kodansha USA, the English-language arm of...

In March 1993, Image Comics published a radical new book called The Maxx from writer/artist Sam Kieth, co-written by William Messner-Loebs. This dark, psychedelic, psychological superhero dark fantasy was such a hit that it was almost immediately ada...

Brian Michael Bendis is one of the biggest names in comic books, having launched the original Ultimate Spider-Man run back in 2000, as well as revitalizing the Avengers franchise for the new millennium. Prior to that, Bendis had made his mark writing...

Ashes is a new graphic novel from Álvaro Ortiz that fits a genuinely unique and wonderful niche. It's a road trip story, but it's also a ghost story, and a true crime story, and a reflective meditation on death — all of which exists in delightful...

Alex Segura has always been a busy dude, and since committing himself to writing full-time last year, he's only gotten busier. Still, he found a little time to chat with me about a burst of books that he has coming out, including Secret Identity (one...

Failure to Launch: A Tour of Ill-Fated Futures, currently being crowdfunded by Iron Circus, is a full color 300+ page comics collection that's a "light-hearted, educational look at unrealized technological and societal advances." "Failure to Laun...