W. 11th & Bluff

When it comes to superhero comics, I prefer my stories to be optimistic, fun, and, well, heroic. Not necessarily heroic on a save-the-w...

If you're looking for an old-fashioned, fast-paced, riveting adventure story, look no further than Compass South  by Hope Larson a...

If you were one of the lucky folks who got to meet award-winning mystery author Lori Rader-Day when she visited Carnegie-Stout Public Lib...

Guy Delisle is a French-Canadian cartoonist who has made a career creating biographical comics, building on the strong foundation of h...

Like a lot of people, I enjoy a good romance novel. And, also like many others, I have my preferences about what I want those novels to be l...

This week I want to tell you about Bad Machinery Vol. 1: The Case of the Team Spirit  by John Allison . Bad Machinery started and contin...

Barkskins , the new, multi-generational epic by Annie Proulx , won't be for everyone. For one thing, it's over 700 pages long and co...

Writer  Brian K. Vaughan  has established a solid reputation as the creator of science fiction comic series that are both popular and c...

Matt Phelan's re-imagining of Snow White is dark, but that's not a bad thing. The story isn't gritty or modern, there isn...

Sometimes it’s difficult for me to tell if I’m really enjoying a book while I’m reading it, until weeks later I find the story lingering in...

This week's #ComicsWednesday pick is very much Not For Children . Sex Criminals, an Eisner Award-winning series written by Matt ...

I’m glad I decided to check out this little book of short stories called The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem . I’ve read Lem’s The Futurolo...

A city, built on a mountain pass, constantly invaded and claimed for the surrounding nations, each nation calling it something differe...

From ethnically-divided separatist states to absent-minded libertarians taking over uninhabited islands, you'll find this and more in ...

When I was a kid I loved Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark  and Are You Afraid of the Dark? , but as I got older, I lost my taste for ho...

Gear up, folks, for a #TagTeamComicsWednesday review! This week Libby and Sarah team up to gush about one of their favorite comic ...

I plucked Breaking Wild  off the library shelf by chance, while selecting books for a wilderness display. I love stories set in wild place...

Jim Ottaviani has made a career of taking the lives and complex discoveries of scientists and mathematicians and translating them into...

A princess, locked in a tower, guarded by a dragon, waiting for a prince to save her so she can marry him and they can live Happily Ever...

If you were a child in the 80's or 90's, you are probably familiar with the Jim Henson movie Labyrinth  starring David Bowie and J...