Book Review: Cartoon County
/In "Cartoon County," Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy recounts his famous cartoonist father's adventures during the heyday of the American pop art industry.
Read MoreIn "Cartoon County," Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy recounts his famous cartoonist father's adventures during the heyday of the American pop art industry.
Read MoreIn the first story-arc in the newest era of the ultimate comic-book hero, a deadly enemy threatens the young son of Superman
Read MoreHe helped to create some of the staple characters of the comic book world, and yet he's unknown outside the industry. A spirited biography tells the story of Otto Binder.
Read MoreNow in paperback: a densely-packed graphic novel in which Superman slowly becomes his worst enemy
Read MoreThe life of infamous NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, in comic book form
Read MoreIn a world very much like our own, super-powered clandestine operatives vie with each other on missions to save or destroy humanity
Read MoreThe revamped Man of Steel embarks on a new series of adventures in Action Comics
Read MoreThe super-villain glimpsed at the end of the mega-hit "Avengers" movie casts a long shadow in the comic books where he was born - a new Marvel Comics graphic novel fills in some of the blanks
Read MoreDC Comics rolls out a lovely anthology of some high points in the long career of the Man of Steel
Read MoreHow do you follow up on creating Tarzan of the Apes? You give the Ape-Man a son, stranding him in the jungle, and sending him out on hair-raising adventures of his own. And if you're lucky, a legendary comic book artist will come along and draw it all.
Read MoreOne of the Man of Steel's legendary illustrators from the 1970s and '80s gets his work reprinted in a handsome hardcover volume
Read MoreAn ordinary boy in our real world has a funny name - Clark Kent. Funny, that is, until he starts to develop the exact same superpowers as you-know-who
Read MoreBefore the mad demi-titan Thanos arrives to menace movie theaters in 2015, he menaced the good guys in decades of comics - a new anthology collects some of the best of the bad guy
Read MoreDC Comics collects the 1980s adventures of the Man of Steel, as drawn by the legendary Gil Kane!
Read MoreMarvel's X-Men reprint series reaches some epoch-defining issues
Read MoreThe revered (and reviled) Superman director Richard Donner co-writes an epic story from the Man of Steel's past
Read MoreFresh from the halcyon 1980s, the avenging murderer of mass murderers gets a fresh new reprint series
Read MoreDC Comics' fan-favorite super-team gets a definitive re-telling of its origin story - or at least provisionally definitive.
Read MoreThe 'lost' adventures of Marvel Comics' original team of mutant superheroes, the X-Men
Read MoreWho knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! With some ample assistance from comics legend Howard Chaykin
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