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Ten Books You Should Buy: August 2007 (Part 1)

Filed under: Manga, First Second, Indie, Previews, Del Rey When the comic book industry releases its upcoming solicitations (two months in advance), there's always a lot of buzz and fanfare over the...

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You Know Graphic Novels Really Have Arrived When...

Filed under: Top Shelf, Graphic Novels, First Second Alison Bechdel's award-winning and fantastic graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, hit the trade paperback circuit earlier this month and...

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Get a Comics Education, Read Eddie Campbell's Blog

Filed under: DC, First Second, Indie If you've read my blogs here, at my original watering hole on Illustrated Fiction and Blog@Newsarama.com for very long, you know how much I love the work of Eddie...

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Just in Case You Missed These Eisner Award Nominees...

Filed under: Top Shelf, Fantagraphics, Conventions, First Second, Indie, Eisner Awards Imagine my surprise leafing through Saturday's edition of the Wall Street Journal to discover a short feature...

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Ten Books You Should Buy: September 2007 (Part 1)

Filed under: Manga, Graphic Novels, Oni, First Second, IDW When the comic book industry releases its upcoming solicitations (two months in advance), there's always a lot of buzz and fanfare over the...

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Things I Learned at Comic-Con 2007: Part 'The Last'

Filed under: Marvel, Image, Top Shelf, Movies, Television, Conventions, DVD, First Second To wrap up what I began yesterday with my geeky State of the Industry post, here's a few tidbits from the...

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Eddie Campbell Joins 'The Black Diamond Detective Agency'

Filed under: Graphic Novels, First Second, Interviews Eddie Campbell is not only comics royalty, with Bacchus, Alec, and a little ditty called From Hell which he co-created with Alan Moore to his...

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Four Sets of Eyes See The Same Story Very Differently

Filed under: Graphic Novels, First Second, Indie Despite being a hack writer who's been paid off-and-on for his dubious talents for more than 30 years, I've always been intrigued by how two sets of...

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This Week's New Releases and Recommendations

Filed under: Marvel, DC, Graphic Novels, First Second, Indie, New Releases Welcome to another Wednesday Thursday! We're rocking the New Releases and Recommendations post in a new fashion today. Indies...

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Choose the 'Right' Fate of the Artist

Filed under: Top Shelf, First Second, Indie For those of you who are friends -- or enemies -- of Eddie Campbell, choose the caption that best explains -- for your amusement -- the bandage on the...

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Laika's 50th Anniversary

Filed under: First Second, Interviews Seeing as today is the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 2 launch, it seemed to be a good time to check in with Nick Abadzis, creator of the Laika graphic novel. I...

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First Look: The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard By Eddie Campbell

Filed under: Graphic Novels, First Second The more my Scot/Aussie pal and cartoonist Eddie Campbell told me about his next, The Amazing Remarkable Mr. Leotard, last summer at Comicon International: San...

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Laika the Space Dog Survives in Alternate Happy Endings by Nick Abadzis

Filed under: First Second, Culture It's frequently the case that the best graphic novels are also the most heartbreaking, and perhaps no graphic novel fits that scenario than Laika by Nick Abadzis....

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Read 27 Pages of 'MUSH,' the Talking Sled Dog Comic Featured on 'The Colbert...

Filed under: First Second, Indie, Previews On sale now from First Second Books is MUSH: Sled Dogs With Issues, a new graphic novel written by Glenn Eichler, whose work you know from The Colbert Report...

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'Street Fighter X Tekken' Gets Box Art Mega Man, Cole MacGrath and Pac-Man on...

Filed under: First Second, Video For awhile there it seemed like Box Art Mega Man (you know, the ugly dude with the ray gun who looked like Captain Power from Mega Man 1) was poised to reclaim pop...

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'Friends With Boys' Creator Faith Erin Hicks on the Economics of Graphic Novels

Filed under: First Second, Indie, Culture It seems like we're hearing a lot lately from writers and artists about the grim financial realities of working full-time in the comic book industry. No doubt...

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'Zahra's Paradise' Creators Talk Multi-Cultural Collaboration [Video]

Filed under: First Second, Video, Culture Set against the disputed Iranian elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise tells the story of a mother on a quest to find her missing teenage son, who disappeared...

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Faith Erin Hicks And Prudence Shen Launch 'Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong' As...

Filed under: First Second, Webcomics If you're a fan of Faith Erin Hicks who needs something to tide you over from the recent (and awesome) Friends With Boys to next year's release of the (also...

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Gene Luen Yang Returns With Ambitious New Project, 'Boxers & Saints'

Filed under: Graphic Novels, First Second, News Gene Luen Yang -- the award-winning creator of American Born Chinese, The Eternal Smile and writer of Dark Horse's Avatar: The Last Airbender comics --...

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Lucy Knisley's 'Relish' Is A Satisfying Comics Meal

Filed under: First Second, Reviews, Opinion The front cover of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, the new memoir by Lucy Knisley of French Milk fame, bears a pretty killer blurb from Alison Bechdel, whose...

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