A year and a half ago, Jim Ottaviani’s newest graphic novel was published online at Tor.com. It’s The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded, illustrated by Leland Purvis, and now it’s coming to print from Abrams ComicArts. The “historically accurate graphic novel biography” covers Turing’s work on cryptography and artificial intelligence and the struggles of his personal life. The full-color hardcover will be available March 23, 2016, at $24.95. It can be ordered now from your local comic shop with Diamond […]

A new year means another article on what famous works of art (and other discoveries) should have entered the public domain but haven’t, due to continuing legal extensions of copyright law. If the law in existence at the time of their creation had been maintained, this year, works from 1959 would now be available for others to reference, reuse, and remix, including North by Northwest, Starship Troopers, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and many, many more. Instead, Under current copyright law, we’ll […]

Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time, Mercury) will be writing a new comic called Goldie Vance. Brittney Williams (who drew the Hellcat relaunch for Marvel) will illustrate the story, about a 16-year-old in the 1960s who wants to become the full-time in-house detective at her father’s Florida resort hotel. Goldie Vance will launch from Boom! in April as a four-issue miniseries. From the interview linked above, it’s clear that this was an editorially-driven project, with Williams and Larson recruited to […]

Toon Books, publisher of elegant hardcover comics for early readers, has announced their five titles coming this spring. The first three are Level 1, which means they’re aimed at kindergarten through first grade readers. The title links go to the publisher’s website, which has preview pages for each. Kevin McCloskey follows up his amusing and educational We Dig Worms! with The Real Poop on Pigeons. It will be out April 19. Just who’s cooing outside? Did you know pigeons can […]