In a popular excerpt of a new book called Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel (Abrams ComicArts) from former DC Comics president and writer Paul Levitz, a lengthy discussion of the roots of graphic novels yields mentions of various watershed works and “titles that helped define the form,” including the woodcut novels of Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel.
For her masters thesis in the visual narrative program at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, Brooklyn-based infographics artist and comics creator Jenny Goldstick explored the memory of her earliest heartbreak.
The first issue of Providence, a new Avatar Press comic series from creators Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows that will see eleven more installments before it’s wrapped up, is mostly concerned with dialogue.
Plotted in condensed and stirring full-color pages, Brooklyn, New York-based comics creator and illustrator Adrian Tomine pokes around in the modest suburban home of a single-child family in the first of two stories in Optic Nerve #14, the newest installment of his semi-regular serial short story collections.