Graphic novels are just like the movies: summer is for the big, splashy blockbusters, but fall is where you find the stuff that’s a little subtler, a little quieter, but every bit as interesting. That’s not to say that there isn’t plenty of excitement on November’s list of top picks in graphic novels: there’s some great new […]
I was afraid to read The Sandman: Overture, Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams’s prequel-which-is-not-a-prequel to Gaiman’s beloved The Sandman, because I didn’t want to experience those characters differently from the way I did when I was 16. I can’t read The Sandman much differently than I read it in high school, even now; I reread it too many times […]
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]
2015 has been a great year for comics and graphic novels, and the quality cuts across every genre: science fiction, fantasy, horror, memoir. Even the big two have done groundbreaking things to mix up the tried-and-true superhero formula. More than ever, the range of material available proves the graphic medium has something for everyone, with a number of […]
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]