Mar 14, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
This novel is a love letter to comics, but it’s a clear-eyed one that doesn’t gloss over the rough edges of its history or imagine the “good old days” as perfect. What does come through is an absolute love of the medium and the ways in which sometimes, as the saying...
Mar 14, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
Set in 1975, this outstanding novel from Anthony Award winner Segura (the Pete Fernandez series) stars Carmen Valdez, an obsessive comic book fan since her childhood in Miami, Fla., who now lives in New York City and works on the periphery of her dream as an assistant...
Mar 14, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
This comic book world noir (which features comic spreads drawn by Sandy Jarrell) is a fantastic take on a world of both powerful women and women searching for an acknowledgement of their power. Click here to read the article
Mar 2, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
Alex Segura’s wittily original SECRET IDENTITY succeeds on so many levels: as a homage to classic noir, a love letter to New York in the seamy 1970s and an immersive tutorial in comic-book publishing of that era. Click here to read the review
Feb 18, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
Carmen Valdez moves to New York City with dreams of breaking into the comic book industry. But after she ghostwrites a successful comic book, a colleague of hers is murdered, and she’s pulled into a whodunnit of the most mysterious proportions. A unique fusion...
Jan 12, 2022 | News, Reviews
Segura’s book works on so many levels, it’s almost hard to keep track—as a love letter to comic books, it’s as powerful as anything since Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). And as a thriller, it’s smart, perfectly paced,...
