So I hit the local comic book shop once a month to pick up anything that may have shown up and put in an order for stuff that ...

And so do those giant robots in disguise. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer After a pandemic boom and a post-pandemic bust, the comic book and graphic novel industry came roaring back in 2024.

“People still read the newspaper, so those books were essentially being advertised by the comic strips every day.” For the writer and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, the daily strips — and the books ...