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Cowboys in Space: Erik Jensen and R. Emery Bright Discuss The Reconcilers

Cowboys in Space: Erik Jensen and R. Emery Bright Discuss The Reconcilers

Set in the year 2165, The Reconcilers takes place in a world where corporations have taken over and become the ultimate leaders of humanity. Humans toil for the good of business, and laws form around corporate needs. In this interview, two of the creators behind this ambitious sci-fi series discuss what’s in store for it.

Bill Zimmerman and Your Life in Comics

Bill Zimmerman and Your Life in Comics

Through his interactive website and his multiple books, author Bill Zimmerman has tried to reach out to kids and inspire them to write, draw, and get creative. His latest, Your Life in Comics, is an incredibly timely book that integrates comics and learning in an exciting way.

Homer, Sweet Homer: Gareth Hinds on The Odyssey

Homer, Sweet Homer: Gareth Hinds on The Odyssey

Writer and artist Gareth Hinds takes on one of the greatest stories of all time in The Odyssey, his graphic-novel adaptation of Homer’s classic. Here he discusses his inspiration, the challenges of adaptation, and more.

Oh, the Horror! The Jim Trombetta Interview

Oh, the Horror! The Jim Trombetta Interview

Life before and after the Comics Code Authority was very different, as Jim Trombetta shows in The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read. His collection of impressive scary tales runs the gamut of creepy to cleverly obscured political commentary, all done in old comics horror series. We talked to Trombetta about the book.

Here and Now: Barry Deutsch on Hereville

Here and Now: Barry Deutsch on Hereville

Meet Barry Deutsch, the creator of Hereville and Mirka, the 11-year-old dragon-fighting heroine of his wonderfully witty adventure.

We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Eric Hobbs Interview

We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Eric Hobbs Interview

Even decades later, the story of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast (and the widespread panic that ensued) is legendary. It was a pivotal event in American history, as well as an inspiration for many. That list includes writer and artist Eric Hobbs, who turned the bizarre and frightening real-life event into the springboard for his vividly entertaining and harrowing book The Broadcast. Here’s how he was inspired.

New Tricks: An Interview with Alex Robinson

New Tricks: An Interview with Alex Robinson

Alex Robinson is the award-winning writer of Box Office Poison, Too Cool to Be Forgotten, and Tricked, which is being rereleased this fall by Top Shelf. We caught up with Alex to discuss the reissue and his work.

Good Times

Good Times

Jen Wang is the creator behind Koko Be Good, the exciting and beautifully rendered story of a woman desperately trying to change her ways…to varying degrees of success. It’s a heartfelt and often romantic book as well as an unflinchingly honest one. Here’s how its creator describes the book.

Best of the Best: Matt Madden on The Best American Comics 2010

Best of the Best: Matt Madden on The Best American Comics 2010

For the past three years, the Best American Comics series, edited by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, has profiled a diverse and eclectic group of comics work and honored it for its achievements. Also each year, Abel and Madden work with a guest editor to make selections. This year’s edition featured guest editor Neil Gaiman. We talked to Madden about the experience.

Pika Don: The Latest Book from the Stanford Graphic Novel Program

Adam Johnson runs the prestigious Stanford Graphic Novel Publishing Program, a class wherein students work together for an entire semester to create a graphic novel. Every aspect of the book—writing, drawing, inking, publishing—is done by the students, and the results can be impressive. This year’s book, Pika Don, was just recently published, so we talked to Johnson about the work that went into it.

Inverna Lockpez's Cuba: Remembering a Revolution

Inverna Lockpez's Cuba: Remembering a Revolution

Inverna Lockpez left her native Cuba in the late 1960s to seek a new beginning in America. Now a widely respected artist, she has crafted the story of her life in her homeland in Cuba: My Revolution, a semiautobiographical tale of what it was like to be a woman in Castro’s Cuba in the 1960s.

Cataloguing Comics: Robert G. Weiner on Comics and Libraries

Cataloguing Comics: Robert G. Weiner on Comics and Libraries

With more and more librarians embracing graphic novels and promoting them to their patrons, the new reference Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives is perfectly timed. We talked to author Robert G. Weiner about the book.

Temperance Unbound: The Cathy Malkasian Interview

Temperance Unbound: The Cathy Malkasian Interview

With Temperance, Cathy Malkasian (Percy Gloom) takes her art to a whole new level. A dark tale of violence set amid a vivid fantastical land, Temperance is an allegory that works wonders. We talked to Malkasian to get her take on the book and what it meant to her to produce this monumental epic.

Good Night: The Audrey Niffenegger Interview

Good Night: The Audrey Niffenegger Interview

Audrey Niffenegger is the author of the prose novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, as well as two novels in pictures, The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters. She talked to us about her inspiration for The Night Bookmobile and its transition from short prose story to graphic novel.

Belle Yang's Forget Sorrow

Belle Yang's Forget Sorrow

With the publication of Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale, Belle Yang has taken on the graphic memoir. Reminiscent of Satrapi’s Persepolis, Bechdel’s Fun Home, and Spiegelman’s Maus I and Maus II, Yang’s book focuses on her relationship with her father and the history of her family in a powerful and emotional way.

Bard Attitude: Why Kill Shakespeare Is Both Fun and Literary

Bard Attitude: Why Kill Shakespeare Is Both Fun and Literary

Don’t let the title fool you. Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery, creators of the excellent Kill Shakespeare series, have the utmost respect for the Bard. Alas, there’s nothing rotten with the state of these comics. And the pair are convincing readers young and old to come onboard the Shakespeare bandwagon with their bestselling books. We got the story behind it straight from the guys themselves.

Author, Author: Daren White and Eddie Campbell Discuss The Playwright

Author, Author: Daren White and Eddie Campbell Discuss The Playwright

Eddie Campbell and Daren White introduce us to the Playwright, a man who might seem somewhat embittered by life but is actually surprisingly open to it. Meet this conundrum in their compelling and wonderful new book, and read here about what this fictional man meant to the two creators behind him.

Getting the Ax: Top Shelf's New Manga Translation

Getting the Ax: Top Shelf's New Manga Translation

Ax is the new manga anthology series from Top Shelf that brings some of the most exciting and diverse works from Japan and translates them for a new American audience. If you’re looking for a good opportunity to sample the manga field and learn about what it can offer, Ax is your chance. We talked to series editor Sean Michael Wilson about Ax and its impact on the art form.

Dan Goldman: Red Is the New Hit

Dan Goldman: Red Is the New Hit

With his supernatural thriller Red Light Properties taking off, Dan Goldman lets us in on the inspiration behind the chills.

Eighteen Is Enough: The Tracy White Interview

Eighteen Is Enough: The Tracy White Interview

Tracy White’s compelling and raw memoir How I Made It to Eighteen explores a dark period in her life. Here, she discusses how it all came to be and how it became her riveting new book.

Nick Percival Talks Legends

Nick Percival Talks Legends

Nick Percival has turned the lovely world of fairy tales on its ear with his bold (and sometimes violent) Legends: The Enchanted. The series is an imaginative retelling of some of folklore’s finest. We talked to him about the series and the work the goes into making it a hit.

Seeing Green: The Joshua Dysart Interview

Seeing Green: The Joshua Dysart Interview

Writer Joshua Dysart has brilliantly reinterpreted Neil Young's album Greendale into graphic form. In this interview, he discusses how it all came together and how both the album and the book still resonate with the state of America today.

Understanding Booth

Understanding Booth

C.C. Booth explores the strange and complicated history behind John Wilkes Booth and what drove him to become the country’s most infamous assassin.

The Art Behind To Teach: An Interview with Ryan Alexander-Tanner

The Art Behind To Teach: An Interview with Ryan Alexander-Tanner

Ryan Alexander-Tanner is the artist behind Dr. William Ayers’ words in a new comic book called To Teach: The Journey, in Comics. He talks about the creation process behind the book here.

Blood Banks: An Interview with Vampire Huntress Author L.A. Banks

Blood Banks: An Interview with Vampire Huntress Author L.A. Banks

After writing more than 40 novels, L.A. Banks comes out with her first graphic novel.

Life After Gargoyles: Greg Weisman Speaks

Life After Gargoyles: Greg Weisman Speaks

Gargoyles creator Greg Weisman explains how his animated show become a comics series.

Trickster Tales: An Interview with Matt Dembicki and Michael Thompson

Trickster Tales: An Interview with Matt Dembicki and Michael Thompson

Artist Matt Dembicki and storyteller Michael Thompson talk about their work with Native American stories in Trickster.

Play Ball! An Interview with A. David Lewis and Matt Roscetti

Play Ball! An Interview with A. David Lewis and Matt Roscetti

A. David Lewis is following up his graphic novel Some Kind of Slaughter with the online comics series Brave Play, a collaboration with artist Matt Roscetti. Combining America’s favorite pastime with an eerie otherworldliness, Brave Play is an exciting new venture, and we talked to both creators about the work.

Finger on the Pulse: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth

Finger on the Pulse: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth

Anne Elizabeth talks about the release of her first graphic novel, Pulse of Power.

An Interview with Dr. Bill Ayers

An Interview with Dr. Bill Ayers

Dr. Bill Ayers is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the author of To Teach: The Journey, In Comics, which uses the comic book format to reach out to teachers. Here, he discusses his work.

A Scary Trio: Dean Koontz, Frankenstein, and Fear Nothing

Master of horror Dean Koontz is embarking on a new career: comics. With new stories based on his Fear Nothing series coming from Dynamite in August, as well as the second volume of the adaptation of his Frankenstein series coming in November, he talked to GNR about the world of comics and how it fits in with his frightening creative vision.

Rasl Dazzle

Rasl Dazzle

Indie creator Jeff Smith's brilliant Rasl is a dimension-hopping adventure series. Here, Smith talks about how it came to be, what's going on in the world of Bone, and how Nikola Tesla continues to fuel some incredibly bizarre conspiracy theories.

Of Dorks and Diaries: Rachel Renee Russell

Of Dorks and Diaries: Rachel Renee Russell

The bestselling author behind The Dork Diaries discusses her funny heroine, her love of comics and books, and what’s next.

American Legend: The Joe Kubert Interview

American Legend: The Joe Kubert Interview

Master artist and comics legend Joe Kubert talks to GNR about his lates work, Dong Xaoi: Vietnam 1965, his amazing history in the comics business, and so much more.

Girl Power: Willow Dawson on No Girls Allowed

Girl Power: Willow Dawson on No Girls Allowed

The bold and vibrant No Girls Allowed is an irreverent, educational look at how girls and women have had to sometimes hide their own gender to get ahead in history. Despite the fact that they had to hide their femininity, they still serve as excellent role models for girls today. Here, artist Willow Dawson explains the reasons and philosophies behind the book.

Going Bananas: Mark McKenna Discusses Banana Tails

Going Bananas: Mark McKenna Discusses Banana Tails

Mark McKenna has been writing and illustrating comics for decades, both in the major leagues and in the small-press world. For the past decade or so, he’s been doing Banana Tail, his self-publishing comics project that combines comics with learning (as well as some vivid illustration). He’s also a very active lecturer on the school circuit. We caught up with him to talk about the work he’s doing.

Four Days of Writing with Mark Siegel

Mark Siegel, First Second's editorial director, puts his skills as a writer and illustrator to use for others in a four-day-long teaching course. Here are the important details for anyone interested.

Starr Report: Jason Starr Talks About The Chill

Starr Report: Jason Starr Talks About The Chill

Bestselling prose author Jason Starr brilliantly tackled comics with The Chill. Here’s what he had to say about the experience!

They're a Peach: An Interview with Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges

They're a Peach: An Interview with Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges

Peach Fuzz creators Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges talk about their past work and a new piece with polar bears.

The Secrets of Life and Death: A Pre-MoCCA Q&A with Jaime Hernandez and Todd Hignite

The Secrets of Life and Death: A Pre-MoCCA Q&A with Jaime Hernandez and Todd Hignite

Jaime Hernandez and Todd Hignite discuss the decades of comics history that led to The Art of Jaime Hernandez.

Cartoon Legacy: An Interview with Andrew McGinn

Cartoon Legacy: An Interview with Andrew McGinn

If you’re no longer a fan of daily comic strips, you have found an ally in Andrew McGinn. The author of The Legacy presents a funny and searing view of the business. We talked to him about it and more.

A Bronx Tale: An Interview with Peter Milligan

A Bronx Tale: An Interview with Peter Milligan

With a brand-new noir thriller out from Vertigo and a career as one of the most inventive and eclectic comics writers of the past two decades, Peter Milligan is a comics superstar. We caught up with him to talk about The Bronx Kill and more.

M.K. Perker Discusses Insomnia Café

M.K. Perker Discusses Insomnia Café

Writer and artist M.K. Perker talks about his comics background and how it all brought him to this point: the debut of his impressive graphic novel Insomnia Café.

Jane Yolen and Foiled: The GNR Interview

Jane Yolen and Foiled: The GNR Interview

Bestselling author Jane Yolen tackles her first graphic novel in Foiled. She's already at work on two more graphic-novel projects, and we caught up with her to talk about her delightful new work.

An Interview with Christopher Hart

An Interview with Christopher Hart

Prolific artist and writer Christopher Hart talks about his books, including his latest release, Manga for the Beginner: Chibis.

Cliff Meth and the Invincible Gene Colan

Cliff Meth and the Invincible Gene Colan

Cliff Meth pays tribute to the life and artwork of Gene Colan in a new collection. Here, Cliff discusses the importance of Colan's work and its long-lasting legacy in comics.

All About Benjamin

All About Benjamin

The talented writer and artist behind Orange and Remember discusses manhua and the impact of his work in this revealing interview.

Copper Talk with Kazu Kibuishi

Copper Talk with Kazu Kibuishi

Kazu Kibuishi discusses his new collection, Copper, what inspired him and the freedom working on a webcomics series affords him.

The Puppet Masters: An Interview with Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins

The Puppet Masters: An Interview with Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins

Writer Van Jensen and creator-artist Dusty Higgins discuss their critically acclaimed work on Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer, an original, fun, and inventive take on a story that was already far darker than most people know.

Of Gods and Men: An Interview with George O'Connor

Of Gods and Men: An Interview with George O'Connor

George O’Connor has just begun a new series focusing on the gods of myth, a series he's both writing and illustrating. But he took some time out from his busy schedule to answer our questions about the king of the gods, comics collecting, and more.

Sublife Goes On: An Interview with John Pham

Sublife Goes On: An Interview with John Pham

Writer/artist John Pham takes us on a journey through his imaginative Sublife.

Power Talk: Comics in the University Classroom

Power Talk: Comics in the University Classroom

Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith have written the book on The Power of Comics, a first-rate resource for college-level comics courses. We talked to the two professors about how they developed their comics criteria and how other teachers can too. Plus: Both share their syllabi from their courses!

Teeth Marks: An Interview with Raina Telgemeier

Teeth Marks: An Interview with Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier discusses the book that everyone is talking about: her memoir Smile. Here’s how a painful childhood accident turned into one of the most talked-about books of the season.

Love, American Style: Ted Rall on The Year of Loving Dangerously

Love, American Style: Ted Rall on The Year of Loving Dangerously

Before Ted Rall was an incredibly popular and controversial editorial cartoonist, he was a young man on the run—a past he documents in wild abandon in The Year of Loving Dangerously.

The X Effect: An Interview with John Byrne

The X Effect: An Interview with John Byrne

Comics legend John Byrne takes us on a trip through history with a look back at the biggest comics superhero team of all, the Uncanny X-Men, and how his work shaped the world of the team and comics ever after.

Looking Back with Charles Vess

Looking Back with Charles Vess

The beautiful artwork of Charles Vess has been gracing comics for more than three decades. Now he takes a look back at his extensive body of work in the collection Drawing Down the Moon and in this revealing interview.

A Conversation with Norm Breyfogle

A Conversation with Norm Breyfogle

One of the most revered Batman artists of all time, Norm Breyfogle has been working in the comics industry for decades, putting his definitive stamp on the world's most famous characters. Here's his perspective looking back.

Alan Grant on Batman and Beyond

Alan Grant on Batman and Beyond

Longtime Batman writer Alan Grant discusses his career in comics, from his beginnings in England through his tenure on the Dark Knight Detective, and on to his views on comics today.

Yaoi Love: An Interview with Makoto Tateno

Yaoi Love: An Interview with Makoto Tateno

For more than two decades, Makoto Tateno has been steaming up the world of manga with her bestselling stories. We talked to the writer about her work and what she sees ahead for the yaoi genre.

The Power of Fables: An Interview with Bill Willingham, Part 1

The Power of Fables: An Interview with Bill Willingham, Part 1

Bill Willingham discusses his work on Fables, including the new prose novel based on it, as well as the politics of the comics industry, his upcoming work on Justice Society, and more.

The Power of Fables: An Interview with Bill Willingham, Part 2

The Power of Fables: An Interview with Bill Willingham, Part 2

Bill Willingham discusses his work on Fables, including the new prose novel based on it, as well as the politics of the comics industry, his upcoming work on Justice Society, and more.

The Power of Fables: An Interview with Bill Willingham, Part 3

The Power of Fables: An Interview with Bill Willingham, Part 3

Bill Willingham discusses his work on Fables, including the new prose novel based on it, as well as the politics of the comics industry, his upcoming work on Justice Society, and more.

Black Book: Laurie Faria Stolarz Interviewed

Black Book: Laurie Faria Stolarz Interviewed

Laurie Faria Stolarz is the acclaimed author of such young adult books as Bleed, Project 17, and the Touch series. In this interview, Stolarz explains what inspired her to create her latest work, Black Is for Beginnings, as a graphic novel companion to her Blue Is for Nightmares series and discusses how she was able to transition easily between the two formats. She also describes how her upbringing in Salem, Massachusetts, influenced her writing and research on the paranormal subjects in her work and reveals how she stays current on what’s important to her teen audiences.

New York Story: Kevin Baker's Luna Park

New York Story: Kevin Baker's Luna Park

Bestselling prose author Kevin Baker breaks into comics with the brilliant and powerful Luna Park. Here, the writer shares what it was like to take on comics for the first time, how his story was inspired, and what he’d like to do next.

Batting 1,000

Batting 1,000

Tony Isabella shares his massive list of 1,000 Comic Books You Must Read. Here, he talks about what made the list, what didn’t, and much more.

Hat Trick

Hat Trick

Return to Wonderland with author Frank Beddor! But be careful…it’s even more dangerous than you remember. Beddor discusses his imaginative series here.

Let's Get Physical

Let's Get Physical

Physics professor James Kakalios is a comics fan through and through. Who better to write The Physics of Superheroes? We talked to him about his favorite stories, the best science bloopers in comics, and where they got it right.

Traveling Pants: An Interview with Eddie Campbell

Traveling Pants: An Interview with Eddie Campbell

For 30 years, popular artist Eddie Campbell has been documenting his life in a series of revealing autobiographical comics. More than just memoirs, these are powerful, critically acclaimed works of art, and now the majority of them have been collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants. Get to know Eddie even better in our interview.

Cannon Fodder

Cannon Fodder

Writer-artist Kevin Cannon began creating an usual challenge to himself: the 24-hour story. A series of those events led to the creation of the swashbuckling, seafaring adventure Far Arden, and here he discusses his inspiration for this wildly inventive book.

The Wondrous Comics Life of Junot Díaz

The Wondrous Comics Life of Junot Díaz

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Junot Díaz discusses the role of color and racial politics in comics both in the past and today. In this compelling interview, he notes how far the format has come…and how it’s still got a long, long way to go.

The Big Picture

Josh Elder discusses his latest project, the nonprofit effort Reading With Pictures, which helps teachers incorporate comics into the classroom.

Photographic Evidence

Photographic Evidence

Emmanuel Guibert followed up Alan’s War with the poignant and impactful nonfiction work The Photographer. Here, he talks about the entire process of creating this magnificent work, in all its painstaking detail.

Very Vlad Things

Very Vlad Things

Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, the masterminds behind the bestselling The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, now take you back to the 15th century for a horror story unlike any other—Vlad the Impaler’s. Here’s what Jacobson and Colon had to say about the life that inspired the legend of Dracula.

Breathed in Bloom

Breathed in Bloom

Berkeley Breathed, the man behind Opus, Bill the Cat, Milo Bloom, Steve Dallas, and so many more of our favorite characters from the '80s, talks about his life creating Bloom County and what it means to look back on it now.

Spending Time in the Fairy World

Spending Time in the Fairy World

Holly Black has just released the second book in her Good Neighbors trilogy, Kith. With a year-long space between the release of each of the books (the final book, Kind, will be out in October of 2010), fans have a long wait for their fix, but it’s worth it.

The Art of Ball Peen Hammer: Talking with George O'Connor

The Art of Ball Peen Hammer: Talking with George O'Connor

One of the most buzzed about books of the fall, Ball Peen Hammer, also contains some of the most stylized artwork. We talked to George about how he came to work on this powerful new book.

Behind Forty-Five: A Talk with Andi Ewington

Behind Forty-Five: A Talk with Andi Ewington

An ambitious project from writer Andi Ewington brings together the work of 45 different artists in one book. Here, the author discusses the scope of this huge project.

Good and Evil: An Interview with Mark Waid

Good and Evil: An Interview with Mark Waid

Comics legend Mark Waid discusses his ongoing Irredeemable series, his incredible body of past comics work, and what’s in store next.

Days of Thunder: An Interview with Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Days of Thunder: An Interview with Dwight Jon Zimmerman

With a remarkably thorough way of explaining the entire scope of Vietnam, Dwight Jon Zimmerman has tackled a seemingly insurmountable project and made it so much more than a simple comic retelling of the war. The Vietnam War: A Graphic History is a history lesson that truly teaches the depth of its subject.

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

Set in a future world that’s as bleak as it is disturbing, Adam Rapp’s Ball Peen Hammer is an unsettling piece of work…but also compelling and fascinating. The man behind the story talks about the creation of this dark tale.

Father Figure

Father Figure

Laurie Sandell’s father was always a mystery. Slightly dangerous, confusing, but utterly brilliant, he seemingly could talk his way into and out of anything. But who and what was he truly? Sandell set out to find out the truth.

Worlds Beyond

Worlds Beyond

Brian Fies asks a very intriguing question: Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? That’s the world we were promised so many decades ago, and the world we worked so hard to achieve. We talked with Brian to find out where that world is now.

Alex Eckman-Lawn: The Artist at Work

Alex Eckman-Lawn: The Artist at Work

Talented artist Alex Eckman-Lawn discusses his inspirations as a comics artist and how he came to illustrate the new noir series Awakening—and as a bonus, he walks us through the creation process by showing how he created the artwork for one of the pages of the book. Step inside the artist’s mind and see the creative process through his eyes.

The Mouse Roars

The Mouse Roars

Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm talked to GNR about how they work together on their bestselling Babymouse series, how the books came about, and what’s next for their tiny protagonist.

Small Steps

Small Steps

David Small is an award-winning children's book author, but he'll soon be known for his staunch graphic memoir Stitches, a stunning exploration of his childhood. With a cold and distant mother and a father who subjected him to bizarre experiments, Small escaped his childhood relatively intact, but without one of his vocal cords. Here, he explains why the time was right for him to tell his story now.

Kazu Kibuishi's Magical Kingdom

Kazu Kibuishi's Magical Kingdom

Following the success of his highly praised Flight series of anthologies, writer and artist Kazu Kibuishi got busy creating Amulet, one of the most fun and creative fantasy stories to come down the pike in ages. Here he discusses both and details what’s in store for each.

Beating the Forecast

Beating the Forecast

Josh Neufeld talks about his experiences helping people recover from the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the lives of seven remarkable people he met in New Orleans, he was able to create a classic work that captures the horror of what the victims went through—and how they survived.

Walking on Air

Walking on Air

The visionary creator behind Air and Cairo discusses her seamless world of the magic and the mundane and how they all blend together on her outstanding new series.

The Scott Christian Sava Chronicles

The Scott Christian Sava Chronicles

When Scott Christian Sava sets out to write a graphic novel, he starts with a simple concept and asks “What would happen if…” The results are a series of cheery, self-contained children’s books that each revolve around an idea, often spelled out in the title: Pet Robots, Gary and the Pirate, My Grandparents Are Secret Agents.

War Stories

War Stories

When C. Tyler went looking for her father’s past, his story of his experiences in World War II, she found a wall built up around him. With her father not wanting to share what he went through, Tyler thought that part of his life would be lost to history forever. Until one day he opened up. Here, she discusses how that day turned into the incredible memoir You’ll Never Know.

A Dork Is Born

A Dork Is Born

Rachel Renée Russell is putting dorks on the map with her hilarious and charming new kids’ series Dork Diaries, starring the irrepressible Nikki Maxwell, unlikely eighth-grade star. Here, Rachel discusses how Nikki and the series came about—and why it has hit so big.

Jeremy Love's American Style

Jeremy Love's American Style

Writer and artist Jeremy Love discusses his beautifully done series Bayou and explains its historical roots, as well as his inspiration for creating the story.

Passion Under the Sun

Passion Under the Sun

Nicole Chaison finds a little inspiration from Joseph Campbell, a superstar football player, and the epic battles of heroes throughout history. But what she makes of that inspiration is instead one of the funniest memoirs out there.

Lunch Is Served

Lunch Is Served

Jarrett J. Krosoczka created a fun new kids’ character with Lunch Lady, his heroine du jour for solving classic school crimes.

Flood Lines

Flood Lines

Writer A. David Lewis explains how he and his coauthor came to be inspired by the many flood myths that permeate so many different human cultures, and how that inspiration in turn led to the gorgeous comic series Some New Kind of Slaughter.

Making UDON

UDON’s manga line recently debuted, making a huge impact with its new releases, translations of popular Japanese manga aimed specifically at kids ages 7 to 12. This long-ignored market is getting some special attention with this new line.

The Rules According to Jimmy

The Rules According to Jimmy

Jimmy Gownley and his fun-filled creation Amelia have taken the world by storm. First as a self-publishing phenomenon, and now as a release from a major publisher. He gives us the scoop on where Amelia came from and where she’s going next, as well as an exclusive on what the next volume will be!

Frankie in Earnest

Frankie in Earnest

Young readers are in a Pickle and loving it. Eric Wight’s funny series is catching on with beginning readers, and we caught up with him to ask him how he created the character and the books.

The Song Remains the Same

The Song Remains the Same

Small presses face innumerable challenges starting out today. One indie owner, Rachel Dukes of Poseur Ink, discusses the ups and downs of running a small press, as well as her new anthology, Side B, in this interview.

A Return to the Classics

A Return to the Classics

Steve Saffel edited the massive new collection The Best of Simon and Kirby, a behemoth and fitting tribute to two of the most influential legends the industry has ever seen. It can’t have been easy. Here’s what went into this labor of love.

The Long and Winding Career of Arthur Suydam

One of the most storied creators in comics, as well as music and film, Arthur Suydam has been creating and interpreting comics characters for decades. With a penchant for larger-than-life drawings (and specializing in zombies), Suydam is a unique and eye-catching illustrator. We talked to him about his creations Cholly & Flytrap and his career in the industry.

The Claws Come Out: Chris Claremont and Matthew K. Manning on Wolverine

Two writers discuss the past, present, and future of Wolverine, one of the truly great characters in comics. Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont and Wolverine expert Matthew K. Manning answer our questions about Logan.

A Force to Be Reckoned With

Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, and Hillary Clinton could probably not be any more different, but all three of them have had their life stories turned into Female Force comics. The company’s president Darren G. Davis discusses his company and its success in this interview.

Blast from the Past: Rick Geary’s History in the Making

Blast from the Past: Rick Geary’s History in the Making

Rick Geary has an eye on the past, but with a very modern sensibility. That's what's helped him create some very exciting adventures and mysteries that all have historically accurate ties, including The Complete Adventures of Blanche.

C.M. Butzer Discusses Gettysburg

C.M. Butzer Discusses Gettysburg

C.M. Butzer worked an astounding amount of research into an extraordinary visual treat, Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel. Going to great lengths to pay tribute to this moment in our national history, he’s created a unique historical work in the graphic format.

Snikt!—Barry Lyga Presents Wolverine from Another Point of View

Snikt!—Barry Lyga Presents Wolverine from Another Point of View

It’s a new day at Professor Xavier’s school for mutants, and one new recruit is about to get an eyeful—which he’s more than happy to share with us through his blog. Writer Barry Lyga gives us the scoop on Wolverine: Worst Day Ever. Plus, take a look inside the book!

Smile Like You Mean It

Smile Like You Mean It

The long-awaited The Eternal Smile, new from Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim, is finally here. Meet the two creators behind the book in this interview and learn how the two friends decided to work together—and whether their friendship can survive a Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate.

School Days: Ariel Schrag Discusses Likewise

Ariel Schrag documented her high-school years in four raw, unflinching memoirs. With the release of the fourth and final edition, Likewise, which chronicles her senior year, she talks about what it’s like to share your coming-of-age with the world.

Corporate Rock and Comics Are for Suckers: An Interview with Mitch Clem

Corporate Rock and Comics Are for Suckers: An Interview with Mitch Clem

Mitch Clem started Nothing Nice to Say, a webcomic about “the awesomeness and the absurdity” of the punk rock scene, back in 2002. Here he talks about the recently released anthology of his popular and controversial series.

Surrogate Father

Surrogate Father

Author Robert Venditti discusses the inspiration behind his bleak sci-fi book The Surrogates. Plus, we give you a look inside the upcoming sequel!

Looking Back with Alan Davis

For the past quarter of a century, Alan Davis has been one of the most recognized and popular comics artists. Arriving in the States in the mid-'80s as part of the British Invasion of comics, he went on to take part in classic books and characters. In this interview, he looks back on that career and where it's brought him.

From Comics to Music and Back Again

From Comics to Music and Back Again

Gerard Way may be best known for his immensely successful band My Chemical Romance, which has constantly reinvented its sound, finding greater and greater commercial success and picking up a Grammy in 2008, but his true passion, going all the way back to his childhood, is comics.

Mister M: A Career Retrospective with Dean Motter

Mister M: A Career Retrospective with Dean Motter

Dean Motter gives us a retrospective of his fascinating career in this in-depth interview. Talking about everything from his pivotal Mister X series to his work on properties like Batman and The Prisoner, he opens up about the secrets behind his work, his collaborators, and his design and writing inspirations.

A Return to Dreaming

A Return to Dreaming

David B., the bestselling creator of Epileptic, shows you the vivid power of dreams in his latest, Nocturnal Cospiracies. Dreamland is a strange and dangerous place in these short stories.

Whole Hearted

Whole Hearted

Step inside the frightening, surprising, and bizarre world concocted in the minds of two teenage stepsiblings. Nate Powell introduces you to a decidedly twisted and engrossing experience in Swallow Me Whole, and here he discusses how it all came about.

Robots, Their Programming and How to Break into the Business

Robots, Their Programming and How to Break into the Business

In a business that's tough to break into, and more difficult to get noticed in, some creators opt to self-publish. Felix Tannenbaum is one such creator. He talks here about what it took to get his book, Chronicles of Some Made, printed (and even distributed), with a little help from the Xeric Foundation.

Reliving History

Reliving History

As the inauguration approaches, we take a look back at the amazing year that just was with Dan Goldman, illustrator of 08.

Interview with Author Peter David and Stephen King's Historian Robin Furth on Journey to the Dark Tower

Interview with Author Peter David and Stephen King's Historian Robin Furth on Journey to the Dark Tower

Stephen King’s Dark Tower series has been reborn in a best-selling graphic novel series from celebrated comics author Peter David and King historian and assistant Robin Furth. Here, they talk about the series’ past, present, and future.

Art Spiegelman and His Breakdowns: The GNR Interview

Art Spiegelman and His Breakdowns: The GNR Interview

It’s been 30 years since a young, struggling, and virtually unknown comics artist named Art Spiegelman decided to publish Breakdowns, a massive retrospective of the work he’d done in the six years prior. Today, the reemergence of Breakdowns is an event, a cultural touchstone from a Pulitzer Prize-winning artist. Back then, it was an ambitious, risky, and, Spiegelman freely admits, unasked for.

Q&A with Jeff Smith, Creator of Bone

Q&A with Jeff Smith, Creator of Bone

Artist and author Jeff Smith is the creator of the Bone series, which has been hailed as one of the 10 greatest graphic novels of all time. Here, he recalls the origins of his seminal work.

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, Authors of Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Want You to Be Creative Too

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, Authors of Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Want You to Be Creative Too

Between the two of them, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden have created numerous graphic novels and comic series, including Mirror, Window, Soundtrack, Black Candy, and Odds Off. This year, they published an instructional guide on writing graphic novels called Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, based on classes they teach at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts. In this interview, they explain what inspired them to write this textbook and highlight what both aspiring cartoonists and artists in general will be able to take away from these lessons.

Meet Lucy Knisley, Author of French Milk

Meet Lucy Knisley, Author of French Milk

The author of French Milk discusses life after France and how her book went from a self-published travelogue to a bestseller from a major publisher.

Interview with David Heatley, the Author of My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down

Interview with David Heatley, the Author of My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down

David Heatley turns the art of the comics memoir on its ear with My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down. The book is not only frank and honest, but also challenging. In this interview, Heatley describes the process of creating the book, how it changed his life, and how reaction to it has somewhat separated him from the comics community.