It’s Monday, and I’m lazing around waiting to get ready for my flight home. TCAF 2018, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, is in the rearview mirror, and as always, it was a fabulous time. I wanted to capture a few memories and moments. Saturday morning, I was focused on getting the must-dos done, picking up the books I wanted to be sure not to miss. Here’s the traditional picture of what I got over the weekend, laid out on the […]

Humanoids, best known for publishing the works of Moebius, Milo Manara, and Jodorowsky in English (as well as bringing back Barbarella), is branching out from the typical European science fiction and fantasy graphic novels. Life Drawn is a new literary imprint dedicated to “deeply personal stories that run the gamut from political travelogues to coming-of-age and coming-out stories”; it also marks the company’s 20th anniversary of publishing in the US. The first four books are as follows, although I’m most […]

Colleen Doran has been announced as the latest addition to the Wizard World Hall of Legends, the seventh. (I’ve listed the first five, and the sixth was the deceased Jerry Robinson, who was named at the recent Wizard World Madison.) Doran will be recognized in a ceremony at Wizard World Comic Con Oklahoma City on Friday, October 27. She is perhaps best known for her long-running, manga-influenced science fiction epic A Distant Soil, but she has also done too much […]

I enjoyed Nothing Better, the story by Tyler Page about two college roommates struggling with finding their own beliefs. But I last read it in 2009, when I reviewed the second volume. Now comes word that he’s ready to release a third collection, launching a Kickstarter to collect work that had been serialized online. I’m torn. I’m thrilled that we live in an era where favorite items can return, but I also find that a work I loved a decade […]