graphic novels

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Prescient Masterpiece ‘The Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation’

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Prescient Masterpiece ‘The Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation’

Rutgers University Press’ engaging, accomplished interpretation of ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ confirms it as W.E.B. DuBois’ most prescient and indelible work.

Are Marjane Satrapi’s Works Comics or Graphic Novels?

Are Marjane Satrapi’s Works Comics or Graphic Novels?

Marjane Satrapi is a complicated woman living and working at the intersection of many overlapping identity factors, and her books Persepolis and Embroideries provide us different facets through which to view this complex of relations.

The Power of Restraint in Sophie Yanow, Paco Roca, and Elisa Macellari’s New Graphic Novels

The Power of Restraint in Sophie Yanow, Paco Roca, and Elisa Macellari’s New Graphic Novels

The magical quality that makes or breaks a graphic novel lies somewhere in that liminal space in which art and literature intersect.

Can Comics Survive Changing Print and Digital Formats without Compromising Artistic Integrity?

Can Comics Survive Changing Print and Digital Formats without Compromising Artistic Integrity?

Aaron Kashtan's Between Pen and Pixel is a deep exploration into your father's comics, your comics, and the future of comics.

‘Why Comics?’ for Grown-ups?

The Visual Storytelling of Black Life in America

The Visual Storytelling of Black Life in America

Graphic novels The Souls of Black Folk, Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story and Six Days in Cincinnati suggest the visual storytelling of black life is almost as vast as black life itself.

Crossing the Troll Bridge With ‘Marvel Comics in the 1980s’

The End is Always Near in ‘Snowpiercer Volume 1: The Escape’

The End is Always Near in ‘Snowpiercer Volume 1: The Escape’

Imagining the world ending is a safe kind of fantasy because, deep down inside, we don’t think it can actually happen.

Garden State Greaser Noir in ‘Iron Bound’

The Visual Blitz in Graphic Novel ‘Babble’

Congo Horrors Reported Graphically for ‘Army of God’

The Con Artist Aristocracy in Crime Webcomic ‘Suckers’