#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!

Communicating Science Through Illustration

Two artists, John Barnett of Carbon and Marnie Galloway of Ask Ask, discuss their incredible work in science illustration.

Racebending in Superhero Adaptations, 2001-2021

Here are the characters whose race changed from the comics to the movie adaptation and what that says about diversity in superhero movies.

5 YA Novels Turned Comics

Experience beloved young adult stories in a different format, or possibly for the first time, with these comics adaptations of YA novels, including Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini, David Levithan, and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi.

6 of the Best Nonfiction Comics for YA Readers

Find some great nonfiction YA comics, including a graphic memoir, a suffrage primer, a basketball comic, and Holocaust survivor stories.

Wonder Women Get No Respect

How the (mostly male) creators of Wonder Woman relied on old stereotypes that ostensibly kept even the most wondrous of women in her place.

I Will Sail This Hopeless Ship Until I Die: The Trickster and the Pied Piper

Why this comics reader sails the Pipster ship featuring The Trickster and the Pied Piper, paired in COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS.

The Power of Portals: Seeing My Own Future in Graphic Novels About Queer Elders

Seeing queer elders like Kumiko in Shadow Life represented in graphic novels offers a portal to possible futures.

Can You Be Nostalgic For A Book You Never Read?

Can you experience nostalgia for a book you never read? One reader examines the development for a fandom through fan fiction.

7 Buff Super-Ladies Who Would Totally Step on You

Meet some of the buffest ladies in the panels. From Hildegarde to Poundcakes, we're taking a look at some of the buffest super-ladies.

To Absent Friends: Eddie “Iron Man” March

In this series, we look at some of comicdom's finest (and not so fine!) forgotten side characters. Today's subject: Eddie "Iron Man" March!