graphic novels

Graphic novel I Kill Giants, about a young woman fighting real and imaginary monsters,is making its way to the big screen. Joe Kelly will adapt his own graphic novel into a screenplay. And Anders Walter, of Oscar-winning short Helium, will direct. [Deadline]

Jack Huston Confirmed As Lead In The Crow

Boardwalk Empire star Jack Huston, who also made for a convincing Jack Kerouac in Kill Your Darlings, has been cast as Eric Draven in the upcoming adaptation/remake of The Crow. This is not exactly new news, but the percolating rumor has now been confirmed. https://gizmodo.com/the-crow-remake-continues-coming-back-to-life-to-wreak-1688425218 Dread Central has the latest, from a Lexington Comic and…

First Amazing Look At Scott Westerfeld’s Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel

Scott Westerfeld has written some pretty harsh dystopian futures in the past, including the Uglies series. But now, he’s written a graphic novel that takes place after an apocalypse. The Spill Zone features art by Alex Puvilland, and we’re happy to bring you the announcement and the exclusive first look! Here’s the official synopsis for…

Batman’s Got a New Job as a Library Guide

This sign was put up in the Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Dubuque Iowa. When they say “near Batman,” that’s not a reference to being near other Batman works. It’s a reference to a giant looming Batman balloon they put up in the new home of its illustrated novels. See? The sign on its own is…

This Is What Comic Books Looked Like in the Middle Ages

Curators at the British Library have compiled a list of the manuscripts in their collection which they believe are among the best examples of Ye Olde Comick Bookes, rife with superheroes, supervillains, origin stories, drama and, of course, blood and gore. Among the top candidates: Saint and Superhero: The Guthlac Roll (12th or 13th Century)…

Zita the Spacegirl faces her toughest challenge yet: Space Prison!

Check out an exclusive first look at the thrilling book trailer for the Return of Zita the Spacegirl, the triumphant conclusion to the graphic novel trilogy about Zita and her space-faring adventures. So much killer action. And below, writer/artist Ben Hatke explains what he’s learned from doing this series. Here’s the official description of The…

An Early Peek at the Steve Jobs Comic Book

From the people that brought you the Mark Zuckerberg comic book comes the boringly named (yet still enticing!) Steve Jobs: The Co-Founder of Apple, a pulp biography in pictures. A few of which PC World has gotten an early look at. As you can see from this shot—just one of several in the preview—the pages…

Darren Aronofsky’s Batman reboot idea coming to comics — and then possibly movies

Now that Darren Aronofsky’s dipping his toe into superhero cinema with The Wolverine, he’s also returning to his abandoned idea for a Batman film. It’ll be a comic, but Aronofsky hints it could still turn into a movie eventually. You might think that Aronofsky’s take on Batman has already been a comic book — since…

Simon Pegg’s Autobiography Turned Into Graphic Novel App for Android and iOS

One of Gizmodo’s favorite actors now has his very own app. Proving what a nerdlinger he is, Simon Pegg’s graphic novel is available for iPhone, iPad and Android simultaneously in 68 eye-popping pages. The graphics tell the tale of his life, as told in great detail in his newly-launched autobiography Nerd Do Well. Downloadable wallpapers…

The Latest Examples of Apple’s Editorial Censorship

In 1933, a judge ruled that James Joyce’s Ulysses wasn’t obscene. In 2010, Apple has demanded editorial changes to a Ulysses graphic novel. And another based on The Importance of Being Earnest. Here are their—slightly NSFW—reasons. (UPDATED): In the case of Ulysses Seen, Apple demanded the removal of some (non-pornographic) nudity. And although illustrator Robert…

Help Send Readers Back In Time With Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler‘s amazing time-travel novel Kindred will be a graphic novel from Beacon Press – and you can help. In Kindred, a present-day African American woman in California, Dana, keeps getting drawn back in time to the antebellum South. She saves the white plantation owner, Rufus, from drowning, but every time Dana travels back in…

Build Your Own Robot Monster, And Support Electronic Free Speech

One of our favorite artists, Joe Alterio, has given us two reasons to rejoice. First, he just released this piece of “concept art” for a graphic novel based on his amazing series of “Robots And Monsters” images. And secondly, he explained how you can get your very own robot/monster artwork — based on topics of…

Blade Runner Started, And Ended, As A Comic Book

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner has claimed inspiration from many sources, but these mid-1970s panels by legendary French illustrator Jean Giraud (pseudonym Moebius) from his collaboration with Dan O’Bannon for The Long-Tomorrow are particularly evocative of the final product. Scott’s artistic talents also emerge in the brilliant storyboards for the film, and Sci-Fi-O-Rama collects both here.…

Alan Moore Explains Why He Is the Comic Book Messiah

In 1987, Alan Moore participated in a Central TV documentary, “England Their England: Monsters, Maniacs, and Moore.” Though not the only documentary about the comic book author, it is the only one to feature Moore onstage fielding accusatory questions from his own toughest critic: himself. The short film focuses mostly on Moore’s larger influences and…

Ben Templesmith Brings You Doctor Who and the Decapitated Corpse

Welcome to a new column about science fiction art by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer. Artist Ben Templesmith’s daring, horrific, and sometimes just plain perverse approach in graphic novels like 30 Days of Night and his solo creation Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse is influenced by the science-fantasy cosmos of H.P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones and the work of…

Bruce Willis Will Play Robocop — Sort Of

Some more details have come out about Surrogates, the robo-Bruce Willis we covered a while back. Based on a graphic novel, Surrogates takes place in 2054, when humans live in isolation and interact using idealized robot versions of themselves (which they control with their minds.) Willis plays a cop — but don’t call him Robocop.…

Cloverfield + Boats = Hybrid

If you’re excited about Cloverfield and you enjoy boating, then maybe you’ll like the forthcoming Hybrid. The scifi/horror film follows vacationing students on a sailing trip, who come across an abandoned trawler. But a mutant creature, created by pollution, is living on the trawler and “fishing” for humans in the open sea. Hybrid is based…