Browsing: Graphic

Oftentimes, when creating works of semi-autobiographical (and even autobiographical) comics, there’s an air of melancholy to them. Be it Eddie Campbell’sAlec, Tillie Walden’sSpinning, or Alison Bechdell’sFun Home, there’s a sense of yearning for a time long since passed, even if it was but moments ago. Even more acerbic works like Harvey Pekar’sAmerican Splendor still have…

The graphic album will chronicle the thrash metal pioneers’ four-decade career through illustrated firsthand stories from Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Joey Belladonna, and Jon Donais. The book will cover the band’s early days, their ties to Metallica, Pantera, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, and more, along with moments such as their appearance on Married……

These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub and Comic Shop Assistant POS systems at stores selling American comics around the world. During the period for which these reports were generated, there were over 225 stores using the two systems. As this is a small, non-random sample of over…

Are you an aspiring cartoonist or graphic novelist? Do you have an idea for a story that’s simply burning to be told? If so, gather up your drawing materials as entries are now open for the Rachel Cooke Graphic Short Story Prize, run by The Observer newspaper since 2007, in association with the book publisher…

At the midpoint of the year, we here at Book Riot like to review the many (many, many) great new titles we’ve read so far and determine which ones are the absolute best. It’s not easy narrowing that list down to a few choice representatives, but as you’ll see below, we’ve managed to select five…