Michael Cavna

National Cartoonists Society alters criteria, splits webcomic awards into two categories.

Lisa De Moraes

TV COLUMN | The House minority leader “would do almost anything” Tina Fey asks her to do.

Michael Cavna

Co-author Mary Talbot calls Biography honor ‘long overdue recognition’ for graphic novels.

David Schoenbaum

A recent film and recent death are reminders of how artists can rise to meet a great moral challenge.

Emily Langer

Known as the “Singing Rage,” Ms. Page, 85, became one of the most successful female pop singers.

Michael Dirda

“Selected Letters of William Styron” is full of literary gossip and stylish prose.

Mary Quattlebaum

A wilderness journey becomes a way through guilt and grief, too.

Abby McGanney Nolan

“The Skull in the Rock” follows a boy’s fossil expedition for early humans.

Kristi Elle Jemtegaard

A wordless picture book about a young girl on the Underground Railroad.

Yvonne Zipp

In “Unusual Uses for Olive Oil,” Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld returns.

Ron Charles

The legendary monarch resurfaces in an exceedingly dry literary thriller and a gory poem.

Nelson Pressley

Homeric saga becomes a vague and mopey appeal for nonviolence in adaptation at the Studio Theatre.

Michael Cavna

When ‘Cul de Sac’ creator Richard Thompson really shared the inner workings of his brain.

Steven Moore

REVIEW | In Will Self’s nonlinear “Umbrella,” a comatose woman is revived 50 years after World War I.

— Bill Friskics-Warren

Soko remixes club favorites by just about anybody who’s anybody on the contemporary Slavic music scene.