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Graphic Novel

For the Love of Crime Comics and Graphic Novels

By Alverne Ball

October 15, 2021

I love crime comics—so much so that I hope to one day create an imprint dedicated to all things crime. I write crime fiction novels, too (my newest, Blue Religion, hits the shelves October 12), and screenplays, and just signed a deal to pen a new crime comic series. When I’m not writing, I look…

Book Review: Red Border by Jason Starr (writer) and Will Conrad (artist)

By Brian Greene

April 10, 2020

“Be careful what you wish for” is an adage that often holds a lot of truth. Eduardo and Karina, the young, middle-class Mexican couple who are the main characters of Jason Starr’s new graphic novel Red Border, didn’t exactly ask for what happens to them in this story. But being saved by a vigilante when…

Bad Influence: The Noir Background of The Big Country

By Quinton Peeples

December 6, 2019

This bit of dialogue started everything: Deputy Wendell: This is turnin’ into a hell of a mess, ain’t it, Sheriff?   Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: If it isn’t, it’ll do until the mess gets here. It’s from the film version of No Country For Old Men by the Cohen brothers. One of my all-time favorite…

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Meyer Lansky

By Jonathan Lang

September 24, 2019

Join author Jonathan Lang as he shares how digging into his family history and years of research culminated in Meyer—a new graphic novel from Humanoids about notorious Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky. Bonus: Read through and comment on the post below to enter for a chance to win a copy of Lang’s Meyer. “I was of…

Review: Babylon Berlin by Volker Kutscher, Adapted by Arne Jysch

By Dave Richards

March 5, 2018

Babylon Berlin by Arne Jysch is a graphic novel adaptation of Volker Kutscher's first Inspector Gereon Rath mystery, set in 1920s Berlin (available March 6, 2018). What comes to mind when you think of 20th-century Berlin? WWII, the Berlin Wall, a city full of political and military intrigue. But before Hitler and the “Iron Curtain,”…

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