Reading Copy Book Blog

Hunter S. Thompson was often a dynamic, intense, crazed caricature on paper, but there’s much more to the story – some of that is now told in graphic biography form.

MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman is published this week. It celebrates the 25th anniversary of his ground-breaking graphic novel, Maus, and tells the story of how the original book was put together (via Jacket Copy). If you don’t know Maus, it’s a comic book description of World War II in which the Jews are mice and [...]

I’m seeing lots of buzz about Celluloid by Dave McKean. It’s an erotic graphic novel recommended by Neil Gaiman who knows McKean from their Sandman days. Drawn in McKean’s signature style, the novel tells of a bored housewife who finds a mysterious reel of film showing a couple on the job and her life is [...]

Enjoy a video tour of the bookshelf of one of our staff.

My colleague Lindsay is here to tell us about Maus by Art Spiegelman. This well known graphic novel addresses the horrors of the Holocaust in a unique way. I’ll let Lindsay explain.

AbeBooks’ video review of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Robert Kirkman’s excellent zombie comic and graphic novel story is being released by AMC as a television series as well.

Volume one of a Twilight graphic novel is slated to be released by Yen Press on March 16th. It looks like Sailor Moon meets The Hills meets Interview with the Vampire.

Over at the Times Online in honour of the 70th Anniversary of the Marvel Comics,  they put together a tremendous list of 70 little-known facts about the comic company. To see the full list of 70, you’ll need to scoot on over to their article but here’s a selection of ten of the fun tidbits [...]

For anyone who thinks comics are kids’ stuff, check out Art Spiegelman’s cartoon in the Washington Post, remembering a ship of 900 Jews seeking refuge in America at the start of WWII – and how they were turned away.