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Book Review: Tarzan: In the City of Gold: The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 22, 2014

Tarzan of the Apes, author Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary creation, first appeared in the October 1912 issue of The All-Story. ...

Book Review: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide by John Grant

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 19, 2014

Author John Grant has assembled a massive tome cataloging film noir that rightly deserves to be called a “comprehensive encyclopedia.” ...

Book Review: Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

By Adam Blair | Jul 10, 2014

Five seems to be a lucky number for author Mark Harris. His previous book, Pictures at a Revolution, artfully captured ...

Book Review: Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, Vol. 4: 1942-1944 by Alex Raymond

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 8, 2014

This fourth and final volume of The Library of American Comics' series reprinting Alex Raymond's Sunday strips of Flash Gordon ...

Book Review: Archie: Daily Newspaper Comics – The Swingin’ Sixties, Volume Two: 1963-1965 by Bob Montana

By Cinema Sentries | Jul 7, 2014

Written by Kristen Lopez Almost anyone can name the first comic book they ever read. For many, it's some type ...

Book Review: Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth by Dean Mullaney & Bruce Canwell

By Chad Derdowski | Jun 19, 2014

Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth is the third and final chapter in the Library of American Comics' ...

Book Review: Little Orphan Annie, Volume Ten: The Junior Commandos by Harold Gray

By Mat Brewster | Jun 18, 2014

Little Orphan Annie was a daily comic strip created, written, and drawn by Harold Gray. It began in August 1924 ...

Books Review: Starting Point: 1979-1996 and Turning Point: 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki: Unique Memoirs from an Animation Genius

By Kent Conrad | Jun 9, 2014

Hayao Miyazaki's downbeat personal sensibility, constant self-doubt, and pessimism are nearly absent from his works. My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery ...

Book Review: Borderline Is Lawrence Block’s Pulp Fiction

By Elizabeth Periale | Jun 9, 2014

Lawrence Block is one of the country's best-known and successful mystery and crime novelists (8 Million Ways to Die, When ...

Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 16: 1954-1956 by Chester Gould

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 6, 2014

Chester Gould's Dick Tracy comic strip debuted on October 4, 1931 and continues today under the creative team of by ...

Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 4: 1953-1954 by Milton Caniff

By Gordon S. Miller | May 27, 2014

In 1946, cartoonist Milton Caniff ended a successful 12-year run on the adventure comic strip Terry and the Pirates for ...

Book Review: Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies, Volume 2: 1961-1963: Super-Ridiculous, Super-Fun

By Mat Brewster | May 3, 2014

Created in 1933, Superman has gone on to become one of the most popular and successful comic-book characters in the ...

Book Review: Popeye: The Classic Newspaper Comics, Volume One: 1986-1989 by Bobby London: Absolutely Fabulous

By Greg Barbrick | May 1, 2014

When it comes to reprints of classic comics, The Library of American Comics from IDW Publishing are the absolute gold ...

Book Review: Weird Fantasy, Volume 1: Glossy Reprint of Classic SF Comic

By Kent Conrad | May 1, 2014

EC Comics holds a special place in comic book history. After all, it was EC comics in particular that were ...

Book Review: Batman: The Silver Age Newspaper Comics, Volume One: 1966-1967

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 25, 2014

IDW's Library of American Comics and DC Entertainment have teamed up to release Batman's Silver Age newspaper strips, which debuted ...

Book Review: Grimm: Below the Surface: The Insider’s Guide to the Show

By Elizabeth Periale | Apr 10, 2014

Grimm is a television show that has been running on NBC since the 2011 fall season. Part procedural cop show, ...

Book Review: The Zombie Film: From White Zombie to World War Z by Alain Silver and James Ursini

By Luigi Bastardo | Apr 6, 2014

Once, years ago, the living dead were revered to by many as something almost legendary. George A. Romero's original trilogy ...

Book Review: Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume Two: 1969-1971, Edited by Dean Mullaney

By Gordon S. Miller | Mar 17, 2014

The second installment of Russ Manning's complete Tarzan newspaper strips from what will be a four-book series published by the ...

Book Review: 300: Rise of An Empire: The Art of the Film by Peter Aperlo

By Gordon S. Miller | Mar 13, 2014

Peter Aperlo takes readers inside the making of Noam Murro's 300: Rise of an Empire, which expands upon Zack Snyder's ...

Book Review: Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays, Volume One 1920-1922 by Frank King

By Kent Conrad | Mar 10, 2014

Reading archives of old comic strips can be odd, because not only were these never meant to be perennial entertainment, ...

Book Review: Hellboy: The First 20 Years by Mike Mignola

By Kent Conrad | Mar 8, 2014

Hellboy: The First 20 Years is a celebration, not necessarily of the character, but of the artist and writer who ...

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the World’s Greatest Private Detective by Dave Thompson

By Mat Brewster | Mar 4, 2014

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle penned only four novels and 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes, the last of which appeared ...

Book Review: Max Steel, Volume 2: Hero Overload by B. Clay Moore & Alfa Robbi

By Todd Karella | Feb 25, 2014

Originally based on a line of toys produced by Mattel, Max Steel became an animated series made for television. Just ...

Book Review: Snowpiercer Vol. 1 & 2 by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette

By Steve Geise | Feb 24, 2014

This French comic is currently receiving renewed international attention thanks to its use as the source material for a new ...

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of London by Sylvain Cordurie and Laci

By Steve Geise | Feb 21, 2014

With all of the Sherlock Holmes revisionism in movies and TV over the past few years, it's become confusing to ...

Book Review: Hidden Horror by Aaron Christensen

By Cinema Sentries | Feb 21, 2014

Written by Kristen Lopez I jump at the opportunity to read and review movie guides devoted to spotlighting movies off ...

Book Review: Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon

By Mark Buckingham | Feb 8, 2014

Tim Lebbon's Alien: Out of the Shadows kicks off a trilogy of books set around the events of the Alien ...

Book Review: Captain Midnight: Volume 1: On the Run by Joshua Williamson and Fernando Dagnino

By Steve Geise | Jan 31, 2014

A patriotic Nazi-fighting U.S. superhero who disappeared in the 1940s suddenly appears in the present day, seemingly not a day ...

Book Review: The Wrong Quarry by Max Allan Collins

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 18, 2014

Written by Kristen Lopez In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a fan of author Max Allan Collins and have ...

Book Review: The Filmmaker Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom, compiled & edited by Jamie Thompson Stern

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 10, 2014

Editor Jamie Thompson Stern informs in the preface she has compiled and arranged (unsourced) quotes about filmmaking from “directors, screenwriters, ...

Book Review: Grimm: Aunt Marie’s Book of Lore: A Novel Idea for a Very Limited Audience

By Todd Karella | Jan 6, 2014

Based on the Grimm's Fairy Tales, the TV series Grimm follows Nick (David Giuntoli) as he finds out about his ...

Book Review: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk

By Greg Barbrick | Jan 4, 2014

The 2013 reprint of Dave Van Ronk's (1936 -2002) autobiography The Mayor of MacDougal Street (2004) has a cover blurb ...

Book Review: Saturday Night Live FAQ by Stephen Tropiano

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 3, 2014

Written by Chris Morgan Saturday Night Live has been on for decades, and book upon book has been written about ...

Book Review: The James Bond Omnibus Volume 005 by Jim Lawrence & Yaroslav Horak

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 31, 2013

Continuing their release of the James Bond comic strips in an oversized omnibus format, Titan Books has released James Bond ...

Book Review: Hollywood in Kodachrome by David Wills and Stephen Schmidt

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 17, 2013

According to his online biography, "Australian-born David Wills is an author, independent curator, photographic preservationist, and editor who has accrued ...