Graphic Novels and Comics

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HOWL, GRAPHICALLY

Drooker draws Ginsberg

COMIC STRIPPER

You better watch out . . .

2011's Best Comics and Graphic Novels

From cheesecake to wastelands to goth colonials

Wu-Tang Clan

From cheesecake to wastelands to goth colonials

Harry and the Potters

From cheesecake to wastelands to goth colonials

BIG DRAW

Call it the indie Comic-Con

CARTOON BROTHERHOOD

Daniel Clowes and Seth dissect their craft

Revenge Rides Into Town, with No Guns in Sight, in Post-Apocalyptic Bunraku

Daniel Clowes and Seth dissect their craft

Prince Harry Gets A Comic Book And Graphic Novel, We Go Slightly Insane

​Big news: Prince Harry is getting his own comic book and graphic novel come August. Both are called "The Royals: Prince Harry" and both feature creepy cover art. In one version Harry has brown hair and kind of looks like George W. Bush (anyone else see it?) while a framed picture of Diana in ... More >>

Persepolis

​Big news: Prince Harry is getting his own comic book and graphic novel come August. Both are called "The Royals: Prince Harry" and both feature creepy cover art. In one version Harry has brown hair and kind of looks like George W. Bush (anyone else see it?) while a framed picture of Diana in ... More >>

REALITY BITES

It ain't easy being 27

NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Chester Brown draws his sex life

Gainsbourg

Chester Brown draws his sex life

The Ten Best Musician/Comic Artist Friendships

Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>

The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay?

Drawn and nickled and dimed

Eli Kirshtein Goes From Top Chef to Spider-Man: A Meal To Die For

BravoThe face of the modern superhero?​Two worlds are colliding in the latest Spider-Man comic, and it's not a clash between the forces of good and evil. Well, that eventually happens, too, but more surprising is the merging of the culinary world and the artistic. Eli Kirshtein, best known a ... More >>

LAUGH LINES

Take a tour of Jules Feiffer's life

TRIP OUT

Kenny Scharf teams up with Dearraindrop

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

Kenny Scharf teams up with Dearraindrop

Gays Are Still Second-Class Citizens

​An email from a reader named Tony Macy-Perez commended me for talking straight about gay issues and pointing out how LGBTs are often applauded yet sent to the back of the bus at the same time. And he had some thoughts of his own:

Gay Superheroes Invade New York City

​It's a big gay bird! It's a big gay plane! It's... the front page of the Sunday Style Section in the Paper of Record! Skin Tight U.S.A., the costume-fetish party at the West Village's Stonewall Inn, gets the "let's explain this zany subculture to stodgy old people" treatment, while the good ... More >>

First Action Comics, Sold for Record $1 Million, on Display this Week in New York

​Comic book trading website ComicConnect.com posted a rare first edition Superman comic book on their site this week, and within one minute the special copy sold for $1 million. Someone really wanted that damn comic book. Vincent Zurzolo and Stephen Fishler, co-founders of the website, always ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find a New Enemy of the People: Captain America

​As seen from the French Revolution forward, partisans of a populist movement that claims to represent the will of the people against The Man must be constantly on guard against mockery or criticism by its enemies. No slight, however minor, can be left unaddressed, lest it feed the worm of dou ... More >>

Stranger Than Paradise

​As seen from the French Revolution forward, partisans of a populist movement that claims to represent the will of the people against The Man must be constantly on guard against mockery or criticism by its enemies. No slight, however minor, can be left unaddressed, lest it feed the worm of dou ... More >>

Live: Art Brut's Second Night at the Mercury Lounge

It's been four years since Art Brut released its debut album Bang Bang Rock & Roll, and frontman Eddie Argos's persona remains a perfect blend of irony and disarming sincerity. "I'm not shambolic," he said on Tuesday night between songs, before correcting himself: "Oh, okay, okay, I'm shambolic." ... More >>

STRIP SHOW

International stars of the graphic novel tell all

THE MIGHTY PEN

The annual fest for lit lovers returns

Pulp Fictions: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero and Patrick Farley's "Don't Look Back"

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero Edited by Angela Ndalianis Routledge The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero, edited by Angela Ndalianis, is the second genre-warping collection of essays either delivered at or inspired b ... More >>

LITERARY COCKTAIL

Five graphic novelists you should know

ENTER SANDMAN

Neil Gaiman gives you a nerd-gasm

GEEK ALERT

Collectors descend upon the Big Apple Con

The Not-Terrible Hulk

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

Say Hello to 'Liberty': A New Comic Strip

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

The Best Exclusive of the Day: The Return of the Flash

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

Remembering the Halcyon Days of Youth

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

Superfan Returns

The return of the repressed, DC-style: Consolidating the superhero multiverse leads to fanboy friction

Comic Relief

Witty political satire takes an underrated form places it's never been before

Wonder Boys

Holy superhero! Comic-book tale needs more Biff! Bam! Pow!

Books

Holy superhero! Comic-book tale needs more Biff! Bam! Pow!

Revolutionary

Holy superhero! Comic-book tale needs more Biff! Bam! Pow!

Four Shame! New Marvel Movie All Doom and Gloom

Holy superhero! Comic-book tale needs more Biff! Bam! Pow!

Going Underground

Framing an abstract expressionist and comics maestro in the entrance to the subway

Good Grief!

The Peanuts turn freaky when given the Royal treatment

American Gods

Legendary Comic-Book Artists Alex Ross and Neal Adams Declare Their Patriot Acts

Eternal Return

Alan Moore's Supreme Achievement

Graphic Content

The Tragi-Comics Story of Fantagraphics

Forked-Tongue Warriors

In the Battle for Hearts and Minds, Watch Out for the Psy-Ops

Thwack! Batman’s Back

In the Battle for Hearts and Minds, Watch Out for the Psy-Ops

Pretty Persuasion

Going for the Girl Market