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We love capes and tights, we love graphic memoirs, we love web comics– we love it all! Stick around for comic book news, adaptation updates, and (of course) comics recommendations. That includes manga and manhwa too!

Best Comics We Read In December 2018

Rioters share their favorite comics read in December and hope you'll share your favorites with us.

My Personal Comics Reading Challenge for 2019

A comic reader eager to expand her reading creates her own comics reading challenge. Are you making your own challenge, too?

YA Graphic Novels Coming Out January-March 2019

Add some upcoming YA graphic novels to your TBR for the first quarter of 2019.

Shang-Chi, Fu Manchu, and Marvel’s Asian Problem

We're taking a hard look at Marvel's problematic history with Asian characters as Marvel Studios fast-tracks a Shang-Chi movie.

If You Want Kids to Read Nonfiction, Try Graphic Nonfiction

Graphic nonfiction is working to do things we might not be aware of simply because of the stigma we place on it. Want kids to learn? Take that stigma away.

9 Bookish Role Models for Your Toddler After They’ve Binged the New She-Ra

Great bookish role models for young readers who are deeply in love with the new She-Ra.

A Tale of Two Captains Marvel: Carol vs. Billy

If, in the course of discussing this spring's Marvel and DC cinematic offerings someone asks you which Captain Marvel you're talking about, remind them there can be, and is, only one.

A Word is Worth a Bunch of Pictures…Sometimes

Writers have been turning novels into graphic novels, but what about the obverse? Pat Cadigan talks about going words only on Paul Dini's MAD LOVE.

Another One Bites the Dust: DC/Vertigo Remains Silent On Esquivel

A comics critic cuts ties with DC/Vertigo as they continue to remain silent on another instance of sexual abuse allegations against a creator.

Steven Universe, Diamond Days, and the Issues of Bodily Consent

"It's going to take more than one starchild like Steven to fix a broken system about autonomy, but he is going to try."