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The Best Graphic Novels of 2020 By Ed Park and Hillary Chute Dec. 9, 2020 As the assorted pressures of this year weighed down on your Graphic Content columnists, we periodically sought escape in our reading material — but many of our favorite comics titles for 2020 tackled serious matters head on: racism, police violence, the refugee crisis, colonialism, mental illness. There’s some humor to be found in the selections below, which are far-flung in time and space. But what’s most remarkabl...

Looking for some last minute Christmas stocking stuffers? Check out these books Books make great last-minute stocking-stuffers. Here are a few suggestions for every type of reader, young, old and everything in between. Hint: You can also use this column for some ideas on how to spend those book store gift certificates that you find in your own stocking this year. Written By: Terri Schlichenmeyer / The Bookworm Sez | 12:00 pm, Dec. 20, 2020 × unique. Some family members w...

Star Wars: Mara Jade — By the Emperor’s Hand. Without seeing contracts or the full details of the nature of the transfer of property from Lucasfilm to Disney, it’s hard to know if each author falls into the same situation as Foster, but the result appears to be the same: They haven’t received money that they feel entitled to for the work that they published…. (2) A NOBEL PURSUIT. The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination’s Barry Barish is an emeritus professor at Caltech, ...

 Unfit magazines use Thinkerbeat Reader to “chart… the authors that we thought did really well with a story submission.” But these are not stories they bought – six days ago they tweeted out a link to the list of stories they rejected. The page had names, titles, and a rating between one and five stars. One problem: none of the authors had given them permission to do so. SFWA followed up with a statement on Facebook warning about these practices in March 2020. After that, Long...

‘Kent State’ On Top of PW’s 2020 Graphic Novel Critics Poll By PW Staff | Released in September during the 50th anniversary year of the 1970 tragedy, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts) by veteran comics journalist Derf Backderf garnered the majority of votes in PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll, receiving eight votes from a panel of 14 comics critics. In this deeply researched work, Backderf, best known for his Eisner-nominated 2012 gra...