#Comics/Graphic Novels

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!

Comic Books Were My Gateway to Reading

This is a guest post by E.H. Kern. She holds a doctorate from a Swedish university and can’t get enough of history, ...

Stand Down, Amazon Warriors: Comic Book Guys Already Killed the Comic Book Store

comiXology, the biggest (and, in my opinion, absolute best) digital app and reseller for comics has been purchased by Amazon. ...

Amazon Buys ComiXology, the Biggest Digital Comics Retailer

It might not be as exciting as flying robot delivery drones, but Amazon’s latest announcement is the purchase of digital ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in March

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan examined three different types of food–industrial, pastoral, and ...

Lesser-Known Works by Alan Moore

I probably don’t need to tell you who Alan Moore is, or at least I’d like to think so. Alan ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in February

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Read (Them) This, Then That – Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust

Lately I’ve been noticing a serious upswing in the amount of graphic novels I’ve read that just so happen to ...

Read This, Then That: Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang

After New York Comic Con this year, the folks over at First Second found themselves with an awesome reason to celebrate. Their ...

5 Gifts for the Comics Geek on Your List

As a self-confessed comics geek (when I’m not running my mouth about books here at Book Riot, I’m doing it ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books of 2013

We challenged our contributors to pick their top two books of the year. The result is a BIG list that’s just as ...