A Drifting Life

This manga autobiography is the result of a decade's work by the acclaimed artist

"...For more reviews of recent graphic novels, check out the Chron's books blog at austinchronicle.com/underthecovers...."

May 8, 2009 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

Arigatou Gozaimasu, Mr. Sakai

Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai looks back on 25 years of his samurai rabbit

"...have almost become a promotional tool for trades and graphic novels...."

April 15, 2009 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

We'll Always Have Paris: Stories

Bradbury's prose has become both leaner and keener over the years without sacrificing any of his trademark humanist whimsy

"...back into the booksellers in novel, anthology, nonfiction, and graphic-novel form. Ray Bradbury, 27 years King's senior at 88..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Books Review by Marc Savlov

Judges

"...the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She runs a graphic-novels book club that meets at Halcyon on the third..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Books Feature

The Spirit

Graphic novelist Frank Miller delivers this film version of Will Eisner's classic comic-book series.

"...the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City graphic novels (and the co-director of the film version of..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...whose work illustrates many books. He also produced six graphic novels, telling the story with only woodcuts. Gods' Man..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Writing 'The Reader'

Scripter David Hare on Germany's long reckoning with its past

"...With the film's graphic depiction of sex, Hare worried about making the Holocaust..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Screens Feature by Kevin Kelly

The Living

Three painters show work that will have you thinking about what it means to be alive

"...crafting tools or a cactus or an array of graphic novels, what are we to think? We might think..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

APL's Book Club Reboot

Austin Public Library gets hip with their Downtown Book Clubs

"...new non-library homes. The reading material's gotten sexier – graphic novels and contemporary fiction – and now you can..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

The Big Show

Comic-Con has gone Hollywood, but Austin's comics pros say it's still the place to be

"...the fabric of literature in general. The sale of graphic novels and trade paperback collections in bookstores has helped..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

Drawing Interest

Books with graphic value

"...and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditkoby Blake Bell Fantagraphics Books, 220 pp., $39.99 Bottomless Belly Buttonby Dash Shaw..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Eye

The Starz network digs into the history of comic books

"...how the more down-to-earth side of comics – the graphic novel – have also appeared as successful, sometimes critically..."

June 6, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Reading Myself to Sleep

What's currently cluttering Brenner's bedroom, bookwise.

"...modern literature – mainstream and genre fiction, essays, magazines, graphic novels, Xeroxed zines, nonfiction tomes on every imaginable subject..."

May 13, 2008 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

During the 1950s, comics came under societal and governmental scrutiny. David Hajdu examines this troubled time.

"...comic books certainly ushered in the modern era of graphic novels, his work was far from the only impetus..."

March 21, 2008 Books Review by Rick Klaw

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

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

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

TV Eye

A new special on Starz, titled Anime: Drawing a Revolution, examines the history and historic influence of the Japanese style of animation

"...to manga, the Japanese form of comic books and graphic novels that emerged in post-World War II Japan. But..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Incredible Change-Bots

In his latest (and first all-color) graphic novel, indie-comix star Jeffrey Brown has stepped slightly out of form

"...In his latest (and first all-color) graphic novel, comix star Jeffrey Brown has stepped slightly out..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Me, Ange, and the Interlocking Shadows of Trees

Why do I love Naruto? Because I love my daughter.

"...chapters, the size of what people tend to call graphic novels these days. Also, it's manga. It's a Japanese..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ice

The first of Vladimir Sorokin's novels to be translated into English; the author will be at BookPeople on Saturday

"...Vladimir Sorokin's Ice – the first of his novels to be translated into English (and the first of..."

April 27, 2007 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

It Rhymes With Lust

Dark Horse reprints the unabridged classic

"...John Publications to produce a line of mass-market "picture novels." Only two books were published, both in 1950 and..."

March 23, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Man and Myth

Comic-book artist Dean Haspiel set to attend Staple! Independent Media Expo

"...and his crew and sponsored by that chunk of graphic paradise called Austin Books, this year's version features writer..."

March 2, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Best Books of 2006

"...Other favorites of the year include two graphic novels, Chicken With Plums (Pantheon) by Marjane Satrapi and..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Best Books of 2006

"...to the Austin literary and political icon. My favorite graphic novels were Lucky (Drawn & Quarterly), the latest of..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Sofia Resnick

A By-No-Means-Comprehensive List of Austinite Comics Writers and Artists

Some of the most illustrious comics creators to have made their home in Austin sometime between 1960 and 2006

"...God Nose (1964); co-founder of Rip Off Press (1969); graphic novels Comanche Moon (1979), Los Tejanos (1981), The Alamo..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature

General Jackson

Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well

"...comic. This rebel form of art was the perfect graphic depiction for the changes in music happening at the..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

When Jack Jackson wasn't studying, researching, and presenting history in painstakingly drawn graphic novels, this wildly talented artist and scholar was making it himself

"...it, researching it, and re-presenting it in painstakingly drawn graphic novels and other texts, he was making it himself,..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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