Editor’s note: Won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story
The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman & J.H. Williams III
Most monthly comics come out, well, monthly, but DC decided to drag out The Sandman: Overture and release it every other month, and that seemed reasonable given how long it takes for J. H. Williams III to create his exquisite artwork. However, the comic ended up taking a full year longer than announced — from October 2013 to October 2015. After the first three issues,
August 27th, 2016. Brad Hawley, Marion Deeds and Stuart Starosta´s rating: 4, 4.5, 5 | Neil Gaiman | Comics, Hugo Award | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
Fantasy Magazine was folded into Lightspeed Magazine in 2012, but it came out of retirement in October 2014 for the Women Destroy Fantasy issue, one of the stretch goals of a Kickstarter for an all-women edition of Lightspeed. I was one of the contributors to the Kickstarter, and, as my review last week revealed, I greatly enjoyed the Women Destroy Horror issue of Nightmare Magazine that was another stretch goal of the same Kickstarter. I’m pleased to report that the fantasy issue is just as “destructive” and enjoyable.
November 24th, 2014. Terry Weyna | Carrie Vaughn, Cat Rambo, Delia Sherman, Elaine Cunningham, Emma Bull, Kameron Hurley, Kat Howard, Kelley Armstrong, Margaret Weis, Nalo Hopkinson, Rebecca Guay, Sofia Samatar, T. Kingfisher, Terri Windling | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Apollo’s Song (Parts I & II) by Osamu Tezuka
Apollo’s Song (Part I and Part II) by Osamu Tezuka is a imaginative tale of out-of-body experience, time travel, fantasy, science fiction, mythology and love, all by the God of Manga himself. If you’ve never heard of Osamu Tezuka, you are missing out. He’s best known in the United States for Astro Boy, his very early comic-turned-anime that was broadcast in the U.S. as a Japanese-import English-dubbed cartoon.
October 25th, 2013. Brad Hawley´s rating: 5 | Comics | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
New Montly Comic Titles: ASTRO CITY by Kurt Busiek and THE WAKE by Scott Snyder
In last week’s column, I explained pull lists and the benefits of buying monthly comics instead of waiting for trade collections or only buying older comics that have already been collected. Mainly, I argued that comic book stores and comic book readers offer a community that is more active and immersed in fictional narrative than anywhere else (even here at FanLit!). Why? Because of the nature of the comic book industry: Since comics come out monthly,
August 30th, 2013. Brad Hawley | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Why You Should Be Reading Monthly Comics: New Titles for Those New to Comics! (And What is a “Pull List”?) OR New Comics, Part One (Or How to Read Comics, Part Ten)
When I started reading comics, I was in my 30s and was simply overwhelmed with all that was out there. Where should I start? I would have loved knowing that there were some new titles out there that required no background knowledge because they were about new characters — not all comics are about superheroes you’ve heard about all your life. I would have been even happier to find out some of these series only lasted six issues (similar to a stand-alone novel with only six chapters).
August 23rd, 2013. Brad Hawley | Comics, Reading Comics | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Today we welcome Patrick Rothfuss, author of THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE. You probably know about Pat’s Worldbuilders charity that raises money for Heifer International, but did you know that he and artist Lee Moyer created a 2013 Fantasy Pin-Up calendar to raise money for Worldbuilders? Pat sent me a copy of the calendar (and a copy for one of you!), and then we talked about it. We’d love to hear your thoughts. One commenter will get a calendar.
Kat Hooper: Many of your readers know about Worldbuilders,
January 15th, 2013. Kat Hooper | Patrick Rothfuss | Author Interviews, Giveaway! | 72 comments |
Have you all stopped crying over Dr. Who yet? Good, then let’s proceed with this week’s column, which I shall refer to as the “have you heard of these new things called e-books?” edition.
First, Orbit Ebooks is offering five of its best selling e-books for $1.99 each in celebration of its five year anniversary. All the cover art featured in this column can be clicked on to take you to the purchase page for the book on Amazon. I took advantage of the sale to pick up The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin,
October 10th, 2012. Ruth Arnell | World Wide Wednesday | 4 comments |
This week kind of has a theme: Different ways authors interact with their audiences online
One of the wonderful things that I love about social media is getting to know authors a bit more. For example, YA fantasy author Lisa Mantchev posted the following on Facebook:
Dear Pinterest: Even the fairies are appalled at how much glitter you people are using. And yes, they count Epsom salts as glitter. They are now hording the stuff against the coming Sparklepacalypse (to which, contrary to popular opinion, the Cullens are not invited.)
Even without reading her books,
August 22nd, 2012. Ruth Arnell | World Wide Wednesday | 3 comments |
About a century from now, when Rob Ziegler’s excellent debut novel Seed (2011) starts, climate change has caused a new Dust Bowl in the Corn Belt, resulting in major famine across the United States. Most of the surviving population leads a nomadic existence, migrating across the ravaged landscape in search of habitable, arable land. Decades of war, resource depletion and population decline have left the government practically powerless. Gangs and warlords rule the land.
The only thing staving off full-blown starvation is Satori,
December 28th, 2011. Stefan Raets´s rating: 4 | Rob Ziegler | SFF Reviews | no comments |
I recently chatted with C.J. Henderson, whose book Central Park Knight, sequel to Brooklyn Knight (which was really fun!) is being released today by Tor. We’ll be giving away a copy to a couple of commenters.
Justin Blazier: Thanks for taking time out to answer some questions for me. Your writing ranges across several genres. You’ve had successes in Horror, Detective, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi and Fantasy. The Brooklyn Knight series seems to provide a home for all your varied writing interests. Was that the plan?
May 10th, 2011. Justin Blazier | C.J. Henderson | Author Interviews, Giveaway! | 8 comments |
That's what I think,too!
As an old fan of '60s-era Marvel comics, I must say that this book looks FUN!
COMMENT Book #3 of this trilogy is very much a heist story, and I quite enjoyed it!
Pirate stories and heist stories... Do we ever get enough of them?
Very interesting, Ulrich! Thanks for clueing me in!