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Book Review: Kamen’s Kalamity and Other Stories

By Joe Garcia III | Jun 1, 2024

Fantagraphics adds to its EC Comics Library with Kamen’s Kalamity and Other Stories. Another collection featuring artist Jack Kamen in “27 ...

Book Review: The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins

By Kent Conrad | May 29, 2024

Private-detective books are great fun. They have the rock-solid dramatic structure of the cop solving a crime, with the added ...

Book Review: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris

By Mat Brewster | May 22, 2024

With her debut graphic novel, My Name is Monsters, Emil Ferris created something beautiful, and strange, daring, and utterly unique. ...

Book Review: Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film by Alonso Duralde

By Davy | May 15, 2024

The LGBTQ community (which I'm proud to be a part of) has made great strides especially in pop culture for ...

Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor by Matthew K. Manning

By Gordon S. Miller | May 15, 2024

Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor is the third release in the 22-book Marvel Studios: The ...

Book Review: Forbidden Cocktails: Libations Inspired by the World of Pre-Code Hollywood by André Darlington

By Darcy Staniforth | May 7, 2024

Sex. Scandal. Drinking. These are just a few of the titillating things that made pre-Code Hollywood movies so good. But ...

Book Review: Nobody’s Angel by Jack Clark

By Kent Conrad | May 3, 2024

When you're a movie fan and reading a taxi driver story, it's easy to have a certain film foremost in ...

Book Review: Into the Night by Cornell Woolrich and Lawrence Block

By Mat Brewster | May 3, 2024

Madeline sits in her small room in the dark. She turns off the radio so she can hear her thoughts. ...

Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man 2 by John Barber

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 27, 2024

Skipping over Louis Leterrier'sThe Incredible Hulk, the second movie inThe Infinity Saga, Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art ...

Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 2: Venus Vol. 2

By Kent Conrad | Apr 17, 2024

Venus tells a very revealing story - not about its characters or world, but about the world of comic book ...

Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge “Only a Poor Old Man” by Carl Barks

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 13, 2024

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge “Only a Poor Old Man” is Volume 12 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. ...

Book Review: Blessed Be by Rick Altergott

By Greg Hammond | Apr 10, 2024

In the opening of Rick Altergott’s first graphic novel, Blessed Be, a Flowertown judge sentences Tommy Cottonwood, a local drug ...

Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock Storyboards by Tony Lee Moral

By Gordon S. Miller | Mar 26, 2024

As author Tony Lee Moral states in his Introduction, “No other director is more strongly associated with storyboarding than Sir ...

Book Review: How War Begins: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion by Igort

By Steve Geise | Mar 25, 2024

Italian cartoonist Igort began serializing reports from Ukrainian citizens in the early days of their ongoing invasion by Russian forces. ...

Book Review: Anna by Mia Oberländer

By Steve Geise | Mar 20, 2024

Anna is tall. Like, freakishly tall, with legs so long she’s able to stride over small mountains in a single ...

Book Review: Tender by Beth Hetland

By Greg Hammond | Mar 12, 2024

Tender, Beth Hetland’s first graphic novel, is a psychological thriller with a big dose of body horror. It is meant ...

Book Review: The N-Word of God by Mark Doox

By Greg Hammond | Mar 8, 2024

Two-thirds of the way through Mark Doox’s The N-Word of God, the character Saint Sambo asks if you consider yourself ...

Book Review: Reading Love and Rockets by Marc Sobel

By Steve Geise | Mar 5, 2024

Continuing their celebration of four decades of Love and Rockets, Fantagraphics presents this comprehensive overview of the first 50 issues ...

Book Review: Return to Eden by Paco Roca

By Steve Geise | Feb 27, 2024

Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca returns with his most personal graphic novel to date, a nostalgia-soaked ode to the Franco-era Valencia ...

Book Review: John Ford (Revised and Expanded) by Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 21, 2024

Joseph McBride previously published biographies of Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, and three books on Orson Welles. He also wrote a ...

Book Review: Long Haul by Cullen Bunn and Heath Amodio

By Greg Hammond | Feb 15, 2024

Long Haul is the latest graphic novel from Sandy Carpenter’s Storm King Comics’ Dark & Twisted line which focuses on ...

Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man by John Rhett Thomas

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 7, 2024

Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man is the first release in the 22-book Marvel Studios: ...

Book Review: Hypericum by Manuele Fior

By Steve Geise | Feb 6, 2024

Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior’s latest graphic novel, his sixth picked up for U.S. release by Fantagraphics, follows two distinct stories ...

Book Review: 50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins by Dave Karger

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 5, 2024

TCM host and entertainment journalist Dave Karger assembles a series of interviews with a who's who (or for those that ...

Book Review: The Bitter End and Other Stories, Illustrated by Reed Crandall

By Greg Hammond | Jan 28, 2024

Fantagraphics presents yet another unparalleled collection in their EC Artists series with The Bitter End and Other Stories. This time ...

Book Review: Atlas Artist Edition No. 1: Joe Maneely: “The Raving Maniac” and Other Stories

By Steve Geise | Jan 16, 2024

Before Marvel Comics was Marvel Comics, it was Atlas Comics. Fantagraphics kicks off a new archival series in their ongoing ...

Book Review: Smoking Kills by Thijs Desmet

By Greg Hammond | Jan 11, 2024

Smoking Kills by Thijs Desmet has a simple premise. Though we don’t know how long he has been in the ...

Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Maharajah Donald” by Carl Barks

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 6, 2024

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Maharajah Donald” is Volume 4 in Fantagraphics’ The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book collects ...

Book Review: Warner Bros.: 100 Years of Storytelling by Mark A. Vieira

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 26, 2023

After TCM host Ben Mankiewicz sings the studio's praises in the Foreword to Warner Bros.: 100 Years of Storytelling, author ...

Book Review: The Complete Peanuts 1989-1990: Wait — Charlie Brown Gets a Girlfriend?

By generaljabbo | Dec 10, 2023

Charles M. Schulz wrote and illustrated nearly 18,000 of his beloved Peanuts (a name he was never fond of) comic ...

Book Review: Everywhere an Oink Oink by David Mamet

By Steve Geise | Dec 7, 2023

When presented with a new Hollywood memoir by lauded playwright/screenwriter/director David Mamet, one might logically expect the results to follow ...

Book Review: The Wicker Man: The Official Story of the Film by John Walsh

By Davy | Dec 6, 2023

Robin Hardy's 1973 British folk horror masterpiece, The Wicked Man, is a seminal and truly nightmarish depiction of the dark ...

Book Review: Prince Valiant Vol. 27: 1989-1990 by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and Cullen Murphy

By Steve Geise | Dec 5, 2023

More than 50 years after its 1937 newspaper debut and years after the departure of its original creator, Prince Valiant ...

Book Review: Milky Way by Miguel Vila

By Greg Hammond | Dec 2, 2023

Milky Way by Miguel Vila is a truly exceptional graphic novel for adults who aren’t bothered by artistic nudity and ...

Book Review: The Complete Alien Collection: Symphony of Death by Alex White and Tim Waggoner

By Steve Geise | Nov 22, 2023

Following on the heels of their initial Alien omnibus collection at the start of the year, Titan Books is closing ...

Book Review: In Search of Gil Scott-Heron by Thomas Mauceri and Seb Piquet

By Steve Geise | Nov 16, 2023

Less a biography than a MacGuffin hunt, writer Thomas Mauceri details his years-long quest to track down and interview the ...

Book Review: Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave by Liniers

By Steve Geise | Nov 14, 2023

Fantagraphics continues their English-language collections of this Argentine comic strip with this charming second volume. If you haven’t stumbled across ...