It’s one thing to get book recommendations from your friends. Getting them from people who actually make stories for a living is something else entirely. At this year’s New York Comic-Con, comics creators Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine), Elsa Charretier (Unstoppable Wasp), and Jeremy Whitley (Princeless) convened the “Get Started Reading Comics” panel […]
Graphic novels tell stories differently than novels. Images accompanying, or sometimes standing in place of, text can bolster the reader’s imagination and pack a powerful punch. The idiom states, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” and a graphic novel uses the power of both words and imagery to create an entirely different reading experience. […]
Alex de Campi and Carla Speed McNeil are the writer and artist of No Mercy, an intense comic series following the harrowing adventures of a group of teenagers from the U.S. stranded in the Central American desert after a bus crash. The second volume, collecting issues 5-9 of the monthly series, is out now from Image Comics. We caught […]