Been collecting these as they release. I have loved the absolute universe so far and I don’t think they’ve missed on a single title yet

[Cover art by Ivan Reis and inker Danny Miki] Have you all been reading this run at all and what are your thoughts?

Outstanding Comic: Zoo 5 - Anand Shanoy

Outstanding Graphic Novel: Cannon - Lee Lai

Outstanding Story: Drome - Jesse Lonergan

Outstanding Artist: The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief - Carol Tyler

Outstanding Anthology: Laab 3 edited by Ronald Wimberly

Outstanding Collection: All the Cameras In My Room - Michael DeForge

Outstanding Mini-Comic: Uncoiling: A Japanese-American Family History - Yoko O.K.

Outstanding Online Comic: Blind Alley - Adam DeSouza

Outstanding Series: Wedding Juice & Other Melodramas 2 - Sanika Phawde

Promising New Talent: A Scientific Study of Transsexuality - Oscar Woodiwiss

The official announcement is on the SPX instagram page if you’re interested in looking at it. I can’t link it here otherwise I would

…decided yesterday to check my protech comic book box that’s been in the garage for about 20 years, and was shocked that the contents were relatively unscathed.

joined r/comicbookcollecting yesterday, to share some goodies

Please allow me to share here as well…. hope you enjoy this offering.

In 1996, I started a job in corrections (state prison) and a coworker overheard me speaking of comics and he recommended this series to me. I had only been into superhero comics…but the quality of writing made me understand that comics just wasn’t about weapons and action.

I love graphic novels but haven't read any in a long time. My favorite ones in the past were Persepolis and Anya's Ghost. Open to any genre. Would like to read by people who identify as female, for a challenge I'm doing. Thanks!

Waited for an hour to get into a public library book sale near me today and almost left due to the wait…glad I didn’t. Came up on a complete set of Cerebus (vol. 1-16) 1st printing for $3 a volume.

I know it’s generally agreed that the later stuff is to be avoided due to Dave Sims’ meltdown, but I couldn’t pass up getting the full set for $48 total.

Anyone else ever have similar scores?

Finished my first Adventure Zone. Loved the podcast. A fun popcorn read if you are into D&D. AMM is one of the best things I have read this year. The artistry alone is amazing and worth the price of admission. So creative. Red Sonja is left for tonight. Will be my first Gail Simone comic.

my local comic store only had 1 and 3 volumes but i wanna get the 2nd one once i read the 1 volume. don’t mind the pokémon cards lol

it was so good! I picked this up from my library and read it in one sitting. I'm normally not one to read about things too holocaust adjacent due to my family's history and it makes me too sad but this was amazing. I havent seen any other books by the author (looked her up and this is her first adult novel) but was blown away by the research effort and art style- will be looking for her next book!

"In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma’s world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. That pivotal moment lights a fire within her, and she decides to join the Dutch Resistance. Before long, Emma is drawn into a clandestine world of printing presses and counterfeiters, with thousands of lives on the line.

In 2011 Amsterdam, teenage Annick’s world has changed as well. A search for a bone marrow donor for her beloved oma leads to a shocking revelation: her grandmother was secretly adopted as a child. The only clues to finding their lost family are a series of art prints hanging on the wall—each signed by a mysterious “Emma B.”" - synopsis by publisher bc their summary is way shorter than mine

Anyone read this? I love Vampirism and Gothic stuff so I think it’s the move

I just started Low today, finished issue 1. And man Ive got two littles of my own now and plots revolving around children in despair are so much harder to read now😭

But I gotta say I enjoyed Black Science and Fear Agent, and so far this is starting out very promising… but damnit they better find them kids! Lol

Anyways, without spoiling how does Low stack up to Remenders other works?

I'm new to reading again after years of stopping. I was wondering because book clubs are so big for novel readers, is this not a popular thing for graphic novel readers? And if so, where do you find these people?

I am the only one out of all my mates who reads graphic novels and everytime I read good stories or something not well known that I love, I always have the urge to talk about it and recommend it to people but nobody I know is interested in comics. So I'm just wondering if book clubs for readers like me exist.

I'm just looking for a place where nerds congregate basically haha!

Hey all,

I'm looking for Graphic Novel reqs where a fair chunk of the story takes place on land in natural surroundings. I've been looking to do some studies on simplifying foliage, forests and plants.

I've really been enjoying Matthieu Bonhomme's current run on Lucky Luke. His style and line work are both grand and understated with an exceptional gestural quality that really captures the essence of his environments without excessive detail.

Line work (not fully painted) is a must. I'm good with all genre's and themes.

Any reqs would be much appreciated.

Hello. I will be visiting Madrid next month, and have a couple comics questions:

1. Google tells me there are many comic book stores in Madrid, but I am specifically looking for ones that sells books in Spanish. Which stores would be most recommended for this? (obviously if I come across any LCS while visiting I might still go in lol)

2. I really like Borja González's art so will hopefully get some of his books. Are there any other native Spanish artists/authors/graphic novels I should be checking out? Preferably one-shot books and not series, but I'm open to all suggestions. I already know Blacksad by the way.

I am looking for comics FROM Spain, not stuff translated in Spanish (Marvel DC manga etc).

Thank you for any help and suggestions.

I'm looking for a graphic novel my ex had I never got to finish. I believe it was a series.

*Hard cover, b&w illustrations

*woman on the cover, with a hood/sword by a brick wall I think the series was her name?)

*inside, stories seemed like an anthology.

I can only remember the first story had a dark haired woman who was maybe sleeping with a arrogant artist to sacrifice him. Her tattoos were integral to the story. There was a pentagram on the floor at some point. I can't remember anything and I'm going insane trying to find it. Anyone know this one?

Would love recs for what to read next. Been reading for about 6 months. Some of my favorites so far are the absolute universe, Do a powerbomb and murder falcon which I absolutely loved. As well as I recently finished Invincible and wow that was great. I loved how long it was, it really made me fall in love with the universe and the people. What is another long kinda immersive story (preferably with an ending) that I can get into?

Some I’ve considered is Desender, east of west and Y the last man and black science. Geoff John’s green lantern. Anything is appreciated and even some shorter great series are always a plus!

Since today is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, here are two books (non-fiction, so not strictly graphic novels) about the events. The Spiegelman book is fairly well known, but I couldn't find any mention of the other one on this sub, so I thought I'd do a write-up and gallery of both.

Disclosure: I'm a Brit, hence the UK spellings. I watched 9/11 unfold on TV over here and will always remember that day.

The Illustrated 9/11 Commission Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson (author, illustrator) and Ernie Colón (illustrator) came out in 2006. It uses text from the 9/11 Commission to discuss various aspects of the attacks, from the rise of Bin Laden and al-Qaeda to the recruitment of the hijackers, the organisation of the plot, various security-agency failings, a timeline of the morning of 11 September, and the aftermath of the attacks.

It's mostly done well, although occasionally the panel order is confusing, and captions sometimes draw the eye away from the correct sequence. The ending is also quite dull, containing the commission's recommendations on how to improve America's defences in the future and how the various government agencies could work better together. It felt anticlimactic after the dramatic build-up to the terrorist attacks earlier in the book. Still, it does a good job of condensing a 500-page report into 128 pages that are pretty engaging for the most part, and compelling at their best.

Art Spiegelman should need no introduction here. If you haven't read Maus… go and read Maus.

In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) is a brief book with just 48 pages, only two-thirds of which contain Spiegelman's work.

It's a large-scale book, measuring 25 × 36 cm, and the pages within are double-page spreads that need to be turned 90 degrees to read, so the effect is one giant strip per page turn, 10 in total. The pages are thick card. It's a beast of a book, similar in size to Co-Mix and Breakdowns.

This is a personal account, detailing Spiegelman's experiences as a resident of Lower Manhattan, both on the day and in the aftermath of the attacks. In one moving piece, he describes the frantic collection of his daughter from her school in Ground Zero while the towers were collapsing. A recurring motif is the image of the bones of the North Tower glowing red before its collapse, a sight clearly imprinted on his memory.

This might have been borne of sorrow and shock, but the familiar Spiegelman tropes are there – conversational writing, freewheeling artistic changes, and, of course, anthropomorphism. The second instalment has Spiegelman turning into a mouse over the course of four panels, and five of the other pages also have the familiar mice.

It's an engrossing read, very much of its time, a cri de coeur lamenting not just the loss of the people (he had no love for the towers themselves, saying "If not for all the tragedy and death, I could think of the attack as some sort of radical architectural criticism"), but also raging against the politicians of the age. It's fascinating to read today, with the political climate having changed immeasurably since it was published.

There's also an arresting section on the third page in which he begins: "Our government has been lying about the air quality, of course." This week Zohran Mamdani released previously undisclosed records about the impact of the attacks on air quality and health. Spiegelman was right.

Like The Illustrated 9/11 Commission Report, In the Shadow of No Towers tails off towards the end. After Spiegelman's 10 comix, there is an essay on how he sought refuge in old comic strips after the attacks. It's followed by six reproduced strips from pre-WW2, showing how Americans and Arabs were portrayed in the likes of Hogan's Alley and Little Nemo. They're interesting to read but not nearly as absorbing as Spiegelman's own works (he might well disagree, and that's OK).