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Winners will be announced at the New York Comic-Con in October.
The nominees for this year’s Harvey Awards have been announced; the annual awards named for MAD Magazine founding editor Harvey Kurtzman are presented every autumn at the New York Comic-Con.
The awards recognize graphic novels, manga, digital comics and “adaptations” across seven categories.
Congrats to this year’s nominees:
Continue reading “Nominees announced for the 2026 Harvey Awards”The cartoonist behind ‘Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise’ and ‘Luther Strode’ will write, draw and color this NYC gangland epic.
Oni Press has announced Touch Me Someplace Nowhere, a new creator-owned series written, illustrated and colored entirely by Tradd Moore that’ll come out in 2027.
The series follows Kelly Muir, the prodigal child of a powerful New York City crime family, on a self-destructive, lovesick bender through drug-infused Brooklyn after dark. Set in an alternate New York City where street gangs compete for dominance and literal wild animals roam the streets, the comic follows a cascading cast of outsiders through violent and turbulent misadventures across a single night.
Continue reading “Tradd Moore’s ‘Touch Me Someplace Nowhere’ launches next year from Oni Press”“You’d have to be special kind of oblivious to not understand why it still sucks to not have control over something you see as ‘yours.'”
A planned revival of Invader Zim as a comic series by BOOM! Studios has met with controversy, as the cartoon’s creator, Jhonen Vasquez, said on social media that he is not involved in the comic, nor was he consulted on it.
BOOM! revealed the new Invader Zim comic last week, with plans to bring back out-of-print collections alongside new stories later this year. The announcement promised “entirely new invasions, conspiracies, and catastrophically ridiculous adventures” featuring Zim, GIR, Dib and Gaz. The original Invader Zim animated series ran on Nickelodeon and is owned by Paramount.
“I have no involvement in any of the comics, nor was I told they were gonna be happening so I was never offered a chance to throw my voice into the mix in some way,” he said in a long statement posted to Threads and other platforms.
Continue reading “Jhonen Vasquez says he wasn’t consulted on new BOOM! Studios ‘Invader Zim’ comics”The creator of ‘Nurse Nurse,’ ‘Maids and more talks about her newest graphic novel, the end of her “cool girls” era and what she’s planning next.
Katie Skelly has spent more than a decade creating stylish graphic novels centered on unforgettable women navigating worlds of horror, desire and mystery. From My Pretty Vampire and Operation Margarine to Nurse Nurse, Skelly has developed a visual style all her own, blending cute images with bold colors, emotional honesty and, at times, brutal violence.
Her latest graphic novel, Heaven, is her first in about six years, following 2020’s Maids. It arrives in stores today courtesy of Fantagraphics. The supernatural strip joint story follows Dolly, a young woman searching for purpose who is drawn to “Heaven,” a mysterious club on the outskirts of town.
Combining supernatural horror with themes of identity and belonging, Heaven also marks the end of an era for Skelly. As she recently revealed, it’s the final story she’ll tell featuring the “cool girl” protagonists who have defined much of her work over the past decade.
I spoke with Skelly about the origins of Heaven and why this graphic novel felt like the right place to close one creative chapter before beginning another.
Continue reading “Smash Pages Q&A | Katie Skelly on ‘Heaven’”The espionage graphic novel follows a retired assassin forced back into a deadly world of covert operations and unfinished business.
Nakama Press, the manga/manhua imprint of Mad Cave Studios, will publish an English-language edition of The Zeros by creator Man Tsang in September.
The action-espionage graphic novel follows Pak Ling, a former assassin for an organization known as Karma. He abandoned his violent past after a mission ended in tragedy, but as they say, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” His attempt at a quiet life is shattered when new threats force him back into a world of covert operations, dangerous alliances and old enemies.
Continue reading “Nakama Press brings Man Tsang’s ‘The Zeros’ to English readers this September”
