Browsing: Graphic

Book Riot has released its Best Books of 2025! Hit that link to check out the main list, but not before you scroll down to see our picks for the year’s best comics…someof them, at least. You can’t begin to imagine the time I had keeping this list short, and how painful it was to…

In recent years, comics have proven as fruitful a medium for biography as prose. Mimi Pond’s Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me(Drawn & Quarterly, 2025) and Ken Krimstein’s Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe(Bloomsbury, 2024),to name two examples, ably demonstrated how stylized art can…

Comic book writer and artist Alex Ross is back with a new passion project centered on iconic Marvel characters. And like his last, 2022’s Fantastic Four: Full Circle, his new book, Marvel Dimensions, is published not by Marvel, but by Abrams ComicArts.

I’ve always been captivated by artists’ sketchbooks. They’re wonderful places for experimentation: random drawings, collages, taped notes, found objects, and whatever else helps make sense of an idea before it’s fully formed. Memory has always felt much the same way to me: a collection of fragments, fleeting images, and moments that seem random, but rarely…

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…

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.

Superheroes wear many faces, sometimes that of a hockey dad who survived Residential School, and sometimes that of a Star Trek-loving Indigenous girl. Their stories, presented as graphic novels, can help readers visualize the lives of the characters in a more immediate and empathetic way. A summer research event held this past June at The…