"The Con Artist" is a lively romp loaded with geek humor. A longtime comic book writer, author Fred Van Lente has a deep familiarity with the annual San Diego Comic-Con, which has become the central event of the comic book industry.... Read More

"The Human Alchemy" artfully delivers creeping unease and heart-pounding scares camouflaged amid the familiar trappings of everyday life. These are stories that will haunt you more than any monster. “Psychological horror” might be an... Read More

An illuminating treatise on an important and poorly understood subject, Bryna Siegel’s "The Politics of Autism" explores the many ways that diagnosis and treatment of the condition have gone wrong. This is a vital resource, written by... Read More

Bill Morrison adapts the Beatles’ famous animated musical film for his graphic novel "The Beatles Yellow Submarine". Yellow Submarine, which debuted fifty years ago in 1968, was groundbreaking for its inventive psychedelic animation... Read More

Bear’s Tooth 1: Max, a graphic novel by Yann and Alain Henriet, is the first of three books so far that tell the story of three childhood friends whose fates will be linked as adults throughout World War II. Translated from the... Read More

Raw, visceral, and direct from the creator’s id comes "The Clandestinauts" by Tim Sievert, a graphic novel about a group of Dungeons & Dragons–style adventurers. The juxtaposition of those elements is refreshing and... Read More

In "Go West", a man seeks vengeance on the killer of his wife and child in a lawless western territory. Gunn begins his tale with some background: outlaws have pushed the government out of America’s western territories, and now rule... Read More

In "Amla Mater", Devi Menon presents the sweet and nostalgic story of Mili, a woman who recalls her past in India from her new home in the United Kingdom. For Mili, it’s an amla, or Indian gooseberry, that triggers her series of... Read More