The artist behind the “Hark! A Vagrant” strips on being a capitalized Woman in Comics, ponies, walruses, and learning how to write for herself. A conversation with Grace Bello.
The internet recently experienced a great upheaval: author Andrew Hussie’s seven-years-in-the-making masterpiece Homestuck rolled to a close. The ending—featuring just under 5,000 words of dialogue, 167 pages of new panels, and around half an hour of animation—ended with a flourish one of the most vibrant webcomics ever published. It also left many fans with no other webcomics to […]
When a corny pleb like me is reading graphic novels, you know they’re a big deal. Over the past decade, the medium has become immensely popular, and new soon-to-be classics are published every year. Whether you are a noir fanatic with a penchant for macho detectives or a sci-fi buff who prefers stories that take place […]
Lives remembered, libraries preserved, and a question about coloring in this week’s roundup of the best, wisest, weirdest, and wittiest book-related stuff on Twitter. First up: #carnegieoccupation was trending this week. An austerity budget in the UK included plans to close the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, a district in South London. The plan is […]
What is it that fans of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall (and its follow-up, Bring Up The Bodies) love so much about the book? Is it Mantel’s fluid use of language and eerie imagery that keeps them coming back for more? Or the horrific landscape of the Tudor-era court? It’s probably a combination of the two, and fair […]
