Browsing: Comics

Among the copious things I love about graphic novels and memoirs, I especially adore how transportive they can be. While reading other texts, my brain works a little, or a lot, to imagine the story unfolding, people interacting, facial expressions, hair styles, the living room setup, and the day-to-day appearance of the sky. With images…

The Plastic-Verse is expanding once again. Image Comics has announced that Narco, the latest absurdist thriller from the creative team of Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard, will be collected in trade paperback format this fall.

Yūrei is a psychological horror game set within the haunted pages of a comic book, developed by Team Yūrei. The game was created over five months by ten second-year master’s students from Cnam-Enjmin, the National School for Video Games and Digital Interactive Media in Angoulême, France.

Recently, a Freedom to Read Act was signed, an author-illustrator launched their debut middle grade graphic novel, an author met the subject of her award-winning picture book, and a pup was the star of the show at a book launch.

St. Cloud’s Ayomiku “Yomi” Adegbile, a dual-enrolled undergraduate in Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), published his second science fiction graphic novel, “Freedom Colony”. This novel follows his main character Abraham, a traveler that returns to his hometown, inspired by the scenic landscapes and historic cultures within Kissimmee and St. Cloud.

Comic books are popular around the world, and sometimes, comics from other countries make their way to the United States thanks to the wonders of translation. An imperfect yet incredible and necessary art, translation allows us to enjoy stories that would otherwise be closed to us.