I really love the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series of true-history graphic novels. I learn a lot about key historical moments, presented with plenty of humor. Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War spy (whose story is book #1), is the narrator, but Nathan Hale (a different one) is also the artist. Later this year comes the newest installment, the seventh. Raid of No Return tells “A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid”. This isn’t the first war to make […]

Remember The Guild? Felicia Day put together six seasons of web comedy shorts from 2007-2013 about a group of online gamers and their personality quirks. Dark Horse released several sets of comics featuring the show characters. First, there was a prequel miniseries explaining how and why Cyd (played by Day) found the online game world, then a set of five one-shots focused on individual characters. Now, there’s a Library Edition oversized hardcover, labeled Volume 1, that collects the above comics […]

MoCCA Fest 2017 was, as expected, a success, at least based on the crowds thronging the first of its two days. Typical of today’s comic arts festivals (as opposed to comic book conventions, which are more spectacle), there was a wide diversity of exhibitors — including publishers Top Shelf/IDW, Fantagraphics, Nobrow, NBM, First Second, Pantheon, and Abrams/SelfMadeHero — and attendees. Here are just a few of the moments that struck me. Cliff Chiang, here signing at the CBLDF table, was […]