Every year, the Angoulême Comics Festival awards their Grand Prix to a deserving artist whose body of work or contribution to the art form has been deemed especially significant. Past winners include Bill Watterson, Robert… Read more »

Pop culture figures making the leap to comic books is an established phenomenon: properties such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bob’s Burgers, Predator, and many others have been turned into… Read more »

The Guardian has a tight, concise story about Alan Moore’s new cinderblock of a novel, which runs at a million words. You can click through the link to browse the insane details,… Read more »

A new cover for the latest paperback iteration of the epic graphic novel, Watchmen, has been released, and words cannot describe it. Literally. There are no words on the front cover.… Read more »

Manga readers rejoice! No longer will you have to rely on sketchy downloads from mysterious trenchcoated boys in fedoras to get your latest Japanese graphic novel fix. No more will… Read more »

Even if you’ve never read a book in your life, you probably have a special place in your heart for at least one famous literary figure (no judgment, Jane Austen… Read more »

Next month, Marvel will introduce its new Ms. Marvel, a superhero pseudonym that’s been used by three other characters previously, since it originated in 1977 with Carol Danvers, an Air… Read more »

In another complicated snarl of prudishness, money, multiple gatekeepers, and above all, unclear standards, the comic series Sex Criminals, by writer Matt Fraction and artist Chip Zdarsky, published by Image… Read more »

The newest of the myriad alt/indie comics to stir the comics culture is The Sleep of Reason, Iron Circus Comics’ new anthology of horror comics. It’s a 360-page assembly of… Read more »

Despite having written about comic books pretty frequently here at MobyLives (including last year’s Free Comic Book Day), I’ve never been what you’d call a “Comic Book Person.” Though I’ve… Read more »