You’re familiar with this story, right? A young boy somehow finds his way into another world, filled with fantastic creatures in an epic struggle between good and evil. His coming was foretold, and the forces of good can now be certain of victory! Within this human boy lies the power ...

Craig Thompson is a masterful comic book artist with the ability to fill pages with life: the amount of detail he includes in some of his drawings is incredible and astounding, as is the sheer scope of the work. You may remember Blankets, a semi-autobiographical book published in 2003 to ...

When a friend approached me about the possibility of interviewing Brandon Easton about his new graphic novel, Shadowlaw, and described it as priests versus vampires, well, that was too enticing to turn down. The Catholic Church, which teaches to repress human sexuality save for procreation, and vampires, the ultimate fantasy ...

2003 best-seller The Kite Runner reveals the beauty and agony of a tormented nation as it tells the story of an improbable friendship between two boys from opposite ends of society, and of the troubled but enduring relationship between a father and a son. The Kite Runner begins in Kabul ...

With banned book week and the arrival of library books on the Kindle, it seems like this just couldn’t be a better week for Book Geeks. Wrong! The National Book Festival will be held in Washington, DC, today and tomorrow. The event, which has been put on by the Library ...

Before you step into the future of DC Comics tomorrow with its rebooted universe of titles, take a moment to remember its three-quarters of a century history of storytelling with Taschen Books’ gloriously illustrated 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. I own a lot of books on ...

Before you step into the future of DC Comics tomorrow with its rebooted universe of titles, take a moment to remember its three-quarters of a century history of storytelling with Taschen Books’ gloriously illustrated 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. I own a lot of books on ...

Geekdad’s Jonathan Liu previously mentioned the Wormworld saga, but for those of you who missed the initial articles (here and here), the Wormworld Saga is a gorgeous graphic novel being written and illustrated by Dan Lieske. Jonathan’s original post described Wormworld thusly: It’s a story about a young boy who ...

Did you go read The Wormworld Saga when I pointed it out in January? If not, what are you waiting for? I mentioned then that you could help support artist Daniel Lieske by buying a print or putting in a donation. Today while poking around Kickstarter (I just love this site!) ...

Happy Birthday, Will Eisner! Eisner was a giant in the world of comics, coining the term “sequential art” and creating memorable comics — among them, The Spirit, pictured in today’s Google Doodle. One of the comics industry’s highest honors are named after him — The Eisners — and are eagerly anticipated ...