Kate Beaton on Creating the Best Graphic Novel of 2022
The book was in the works since 2016, I pitched it to Drawn and Quarterly in the summer of 2016. I took a year to write it. I took several…
‘Best of 2000 AD’ Proves Why the Comics Are Classic
At first glance, even the name feels ambitious: Best of 2000 AD. How can anything, even a six-volume collection of anthologies running more than 200 pages each, live up to…
Director Owen Kline Calls ‘Funny Pages’ His ‘Self-Critical’ Debut
On a recent weekday afternoon in Manhattan, the director Owen Kline, 30, sat on a glass-doored conference-room couch. He wore a blue velour fleece adorned with a shiny brooch of…
‘The Sandman’ Is Almost Too Faithful to Its Source Material
There’s a point midway through the sixth episode of Netflix’s The Sandman—the most successful episode of the first season by some distance—where Tom Sturridge’s Dream is talking to his sister,…
After ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,’ Read These 5 Comics
Jennifer Walters might not seem like an obvious choice for the next generation of Marvel superheroes—in fact, as trailers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law demonstrate, she’s not even interested in…
The Endless Afterlife of ‘The Sandman’
For faithful readers, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman saga came to an end more than a quarter century ago. It happened in 1996, when DC Comics published The Sandman #75, the final…
‘Ms. Marvel’ Ended Up Being the Best Thing on Disney+ This Year
Last week, without much fanfare (or at least not as much as one would hope), the best Marvel show of the year ended its run on Disney+. It featured, of…
It’s Time for Fans to Watch Superheroes Like They Read Them
This Friday, after what seems like an interminable wait, Thor: Love and Thunder hits theaters. As it does, fans will also be indulging in the penultimate episode of Ms. Marvel,…
After ‘Thor: Love and Thunder,’ Read These 5 Comics
Off all the makeovers that Marvel’s cinematic superheroes have gotten, none has been more dramatic—or fun—than Thor’s. After transforming from an average god-bro in 2011’s Thor to a glum hammer-wielder…
After ‘Ms. Marvel,’ Read These 5 Comics
Based on its heroine alone, Disney+’s six-episode miniseries Ms. Marvel is looking like it might be a game-changer for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kamala Khan, the next-generation hero…