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Swapna Krishna

Swapna is the Comics Editor at Book Riot. She's a Space Columnist for Paste Magazine and writes for Syfy Wire—Fangrrls, Tor.com, Bustle, and other sites. She co-hosts a podcast called Desi Geek Girls. You can find her incessant ramblings on Twitter at @skrishna. She lives outside Philadelphia.

Fresh Ink: February 10, 2015

HARDCOVER RELEASES My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood ...

Marvel Creates an All-Female Avengers: “A-Force”

Marvel’s been teasing a big announcement. They’re saying it’s a big deal. We’ve heard rumblings and musings. So, what’s the big ...

DC Comics Launches New Titles Aimed at Inclusiveness

We here at Panels talk a lot about diversity. It’s incredibly important to us. That’s why we’re excited about DC’s ...

Fresh Ink: February 3, 2015

HARDCOVER RELEASES Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow) In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality ...

EL DEAFO: Newbery Honor for a Comic!

El Deafo by Cece Bell was named a Newbery Honor book for 2015 by the American Library Association. The book, a ...

Fresh Ink: January 27, 2015

HARDCOVER RELEASES The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide ...

Fresh Ink: January 20, 2015

HARDCOVER RELEASES Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy (Bloomsbury) In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university town, ...

A Day in the Life of Baby Groot

This is Baby Groot. Baby Groot lives in my office, but I don’t usually notice what he gets up to ...

Fresh Ink: January 13, 2015

HARDCOVER RELEASES Sophia : Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand (Bloomsbury) On the afternoon of November 16, 1910, three hundred ...

Fresh Ink: January 6, 2015

HARDCOVER RELEASES Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova (William Morrow) Arriving at Princeton for her freshman year, Thea Slavin finds herself alone, ...