'86 Plots,' One Graphic Novel

Local comic creators need a Kickstart

"...comic creators are trying to finance their upcoming horror graphic novel through the online donation system...."

Sept. 11, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Lilah Sturges Releases Lumberjanes Graphic Novel

Latest in the series insists emotional vulnerability is cool now

"...Sometimes we just want a cute, queer graphic novel where no one dies tragically, and now we’re..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Ray Emerson

Turning Lipstick Traces Into a Graphic Novel

Lana Lesley adapts the Rude Mechs' punk spectacle to the printed page

"...why do they have to go and make a graphic novel out of the thing now?..."

May 29, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington With This New Graphic Novel

John Lewis pens civil rights history in new graphic novel

"...Lewis, the youngest keynote speaker at the march, co-authored graphic novel March (Book One) with Andrew Aydin and illustrator..."

Aug. 28, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Five Graphic Novel Recommendations

No powers: Just ordinary people as fucked up as most of us – more or less.

"...anything to do with the number of reviews of graphic novels in this blog post...."

June 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Graphic Novel The Divine from Asaf & Tomer Hanuka

Note: Never fuck with spooky child-soldiers in Southeast Asia

"...fills the pages between the covers of this new graphic novel from First Second Books...."

July 15, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Jetlag: Five Graphic Novellas

"...Jetlag: Five Graphic Novellas..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Review by Ada Calhoun

New Graphic Novel is Dark, Urban, Sorcerous

Chris Miskiewicz and Palle Schmidt’s THOMAS ALSOP rocks Manhattan

June 1, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Review by Robert Faires

New in Graphic Novels

The Chronicle Comics & Manga Team hunts down some inky delights

"...This week's print issue features reviews of four new graphic novels, which was really only the tip of the..."

May 7, 2009 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recent Graphic Novels You Shouldn’t Miss Out On

Book yourself some quality reading time AFK, why don’tcha?

"...Okay, not necessarily graphic novels, all of them – the first one’s more..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recent Graphic Novels to End This Crazy Year Right

We mean, if there’s any way to end it that’s other than wrong

"...But we’ll also be enriching our life-of-the-mind with excellent graphic novels that – chacun à son goût – have..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Funeral of the Heart

Candidly morbid is perhaps the best way to describe Leah Hayes' five fairy-tale-ish stories

"...Funeral of the Heartby Leah Hayes Fantagraphics, 120 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."

March 14, 2008 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery

This graphic novel by writer Mat Johnson and artist Warren Pleece is a historical thriller set during the Harlem Renaissance of early last century

"...Incognegro: A Graphic Mysteryby Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece Vertigo, 136 pp.,..."

March 14, 2008 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Graphic Gift Books For Your Creative Favorites

Or even for your own holiday-besieged self, right? Potentially?

"...general a statement: Windham, the talent behind those compelling graphics for Jennifer Sherburn’s 11:11 and other projects, the man..."

Dec. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Graphic Diversity

This year's Staple! expo spotlights women in comics, and local creator E.K. Weaver explains why

"...Texas-based female writers and artists, and her work includes graphic novel The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and..."

March 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Exit Wounds

An insider's view that reveals a matter-of-fact acceptance of Middle East violence

"...Imagine some indie filmmaker bringing this beautifully drawn graphic novel to the cinema. It's such a stark, simple..."

May 8, 2009 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Graphic Delight

Japanese Comics Artist Rumiko Takahashi

"...me was laughing his head off reading this goddamn graphic novel. This thing was producing more laughs-per-minute than Airplane!..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Books Feature

The (Graphic) Case of Charles Dexter Ward

A classic Lovecraft story gets the comic-book treatment

"...and well adapted by I.N.J. Culbard in this full-color graphic-novel treatment, released by indie publisher Self Made Hero this..."

April 12, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

There's This 35-Year-Old Who's Totally Into Graphic Novels …

… and its name is Austin Books & Comics!

"...both, from the likes of Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics and Top Shelf and PictureBox and Oni and First..."

Aug. 30, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Is the Third 'Graphic Canon' a Decent End to the Ambitious Project?

Does this collection of illustrated literary classics succeed?

"...I wrote of the first volume of The Graphic Canon here. I gave the second volume a hurried..."

April 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Welcome to Night Vale The Novel

Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor move the strange little desert town of their wildly popular podcast to the printed page

"...to Night Vale is also a book, a full-fledged novel that tells a complete story in about 400 pages...."

Nov. 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Michael Berry

Five Graphic Novels That Will Supercharge Your Sequential Existence

A smattering of comics to keep your eyes busy

"...a domestic varmint in its own words is a novel conceit (cf. William Braden's Henri, le Chat Noir or,..."

May 21, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Also New in Graphic Novels

"...The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8by Thomas Ott Fantagraphics Books, 142 pp., $28.95..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"...1986 to '87 before being collected into a single-volume graphic novel), the film itself is bizarrely cold and uninvolving...."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Persepolis

This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.

"...Persepolis is at once a confessional autobiography, historical re-enactment, graphic art object, and deeply involving contemporary story about a..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Hell

"...From Hell -- it's based on Alan Moore's landmark graphic novel from a few years back; if you haven't..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'The Intergalactic Nemesis' in Four Colors

Is the world's first live action graphic novel a good graphic novel?

"...Nemesis has been called the world's first live action graphic novel. But what happens when you take out the..."

Aug. 11, 2012 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Blood and Chocolate

Lycanthropy and young love: not as yummy as it sounds but nowhere near as godawful as Van Helsing, a small mercy but very much appreciated.

"...based on Annette Curtis Klause's immensely popular young adult novel of the same name, and even if you haven't..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...Tillie Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic novel Spinning, will be at the Texas Book Festival..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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