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Shortly after ending their legendary run on The New Teen Titans, writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez began to talk about getting the band back together to tell one big Teen Titans story in a graphic novel format. The project would be put on hold until the late...

Aspiring librarian Barbara Gordon lives a secret life, protecting the Gotham borough of Burnside as Batgirl. Yet even Barbara’s secret life holds a secret life! Years ago, Barbara was paralyzed following an encounter with The Joker, and lost her ability to walk....

Batgirl has won the hearts and minds of Burnside—the trendy Gotham City neighborhood that houses most of the city’s best night clubs and tech start-ups. Despite feeling more at home in Burnside than she’s ever felt anywhere else, Barbara Gordon still feels the need to...

From the graphic novelist duo Metaphrog (John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs), comes a graphic interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid. With beautiful illustrations and language, this new book takes readers into a magical world of...

Never before have I read a manga that made me so uncomfortable and terrified that it made me want to stop reading. And this is coming from someone who gleefully hunts down Junji Ito’s cavalcade of body horror stories like Gyo and Uzumaki. But Scumbag Loser exists on a...

Hirohiko Araki is a famous manga creator, whose Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure franchise has attracted fans for over thirty years. How does he do it? What has he noticed about the manga industry? What tips and wisdom can he pass down to budding writers and artists pursuing...

The history of comics parallels the history of crossword puzzles. Both crosswords and newspaper comic strips debuted in the New York World newspaper around the turn of the last century. What better form, then, to tell the story of the crossword puzzle than a graphic...

Pokémon trainer Ash and his buddy Pikachu are on their way to see Azoth Kingdom, a city that is supposed to be a feat of mechanical engineering. Just as they arrive, though, they are almost flattened by a huge Pokémon falling from the sky! This is Volcanion and it is...

Kosei Arima is a piano prodigy with a lot of baggage. His mother relentlessly drilled him at playing piano at a young age, imbuing a rigid work ethic and demand for reproducing scores with robotic, award-winning precision. After his mother passed away, he lost his...

It’s hard to imagine a pop culture icon with more enduring influence and fan power than Elvis Presley, the King, who still sells around one million records a year. That number is likely to surge in 2017 with the re-release of his 50 Greatest Hits to mark the 40th...