Books

While compilations of comedic monologues fill bookstores and are ubiquitous on the Internet, there are none that are written expressly for the LBTQ community. This fall, Applause Theatre and Cinema Books...

Cover of USS Stevens: The Collected Stories, art by Sam Glanzman. Sam Glanzman’s USS Stevens: The Collected Stories (Dover Publications, 2016) is more than a collection of some of the finest naval war...

  Dr. David Lavery, chairing a panel at SCW5 in Vancouver, BC, 2014. Dr. David Lavery, Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Studies at Middle Tennessee State University died Tuesday...

Cover of Titan Comics' Battle Classics, Volume 2. Art by Cam Kennedy. Titan Comics is on a mission. Fortunately, part of that mission is reprinting the greatest comics from the British war comics magazine...

Like a lot of folks, my gateway to the brilliant avatar of comedy that is Joel McHale was through his work as host of E!'s celebrity mock-a-thon The Soup and as his turn as disgraced former lawyer Jeff...

Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars. Art by Greg Ruth Previews Magazine is pretty much a permanent part of my pull list. There are a few reasons for this, not least of which is the sheer Sears...

Despite a somewhat wobbly start, the first Rebels trade collection is a welcome addition to this correspondent’s war comics library, and features engaging writing, dynamic art, and masterful...

People who wade into the creative writing process pour the whole of themselves into their labors, fretting over the right turn of phrase or narrative structure that will best convey the vision they have...

White Death is a true classic of the war comics genre, and a beautiful example of the power of comics as an art form capable of telling stories that bring history to immediate, visceral life no matter how...

Johnny Red #2 is an "end of the beginning" comic, and tends to feel like the second half of issue 1, ending just as the main storyline begins. Still, the stage is now nicely set, the actors properly placed,...