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Mike Mignola's ''Bowling With Corpses'' is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes. BOWLING WITH CORPSES & OTHER STRANGE TALES FROM LANDS UNKNOWN, by Mike Mignola I'm sure the artist [...]

The year 2024 was an especially good year for comics readers who had been waiting a long time. Olivier Schrauwen brought his magisterial ''Sunday'' to a close after five years. [...]

The warp and weft of a single life is impossible to describe because there's no such thing as a single life. Perhaps that's why family stories are such a satisfying [...]

A rule I've developed is that if a book makes me laugh loudly enough to be embarrassing on the train, I have to find a way to write about it. [...]

Justice, feminism, freedom and cheap horror thrills make for an exciting month of reading. Though it is customarily served cold, revenge is a surprisingly versatile dish. Take, for example, Garth [...]

There be monsters in four new volumes out this month (yes, even in ''Nancy''). The seven-year wait since Emil Ferris published her debut graphic novel has felt far longer than [...]

Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month's diverse offerings. Sometimes, design is everything. In SPIRAL AND OTHER STORIES (New York Review Comics, 208 pp., $24.95), by [...]

Circus tigers, giant spiders, shifting borders and motherhood all threaten to end life as we know it in comics this month. You never know what's going to go wrong, until [...]

Punk rock, Greek myth and a comics pioneer long lost to history bring vibrant color to this month's releases. In four new graphic novels, the world is changing, and our [...]

Good graphic novels tend to appear in bookstores seemingly out of nowhere after years of rumors, scattershot serialization, ''process'' zines and snippets posted to social media. As literature, long-form comics [...]