Witty and well-researched, this comic spins the tale of one spy in the American Revolution, already caught and condemned to death by hanging. But this spy, Nathan Hale (no relation to the author of the same name) is granted a strange power: to see backwards and forwards in the tapestry of American history. Like Scheherazade, he delays the moment of his death by promising his hangsman one more story, one more story, one more story...

I am endlessly impressed with the contents of Tom Gould's brain. Each strip in this collection is funnier than the last. The stand-alone comics range over subjects from book hording, time-travel, zombie apocalypses, what Charles Dickens would do in the modern era, alternate titles for Moby Dick and of course Kafka's cooking show. Hilarious and delightful.

Brigitte Findakly writes of her childhood in Iraq, and the pain of seeing her home country slide into authoritarianism from the safety of her second home in France. Illustrated in a deceptively simple style by her husband, the cartoonist Lewis Trondheim.

It is almost impossible to describe how charming and delightful this series is. I discovered Check Please! as a webcomic over a year ago, and fell hard for its soft pie-obsessed protagonist, Eric Bittle. Bitty, as he is quickly nicknamed, is a freshman at Samwell University and the shortest member of its hockey team. As a former ice skater he is great on his skates, but he has a paralyzing fear of being body checked- a common occurrence in a hockey game. In this first year of school he meets the boys and blossoms in the light of their friendship and mentoring. It is a beautiful thing to watch.

This series swept me off my feet- it is as warmhearted and delicious as an apple pie. Year Two chronicles Eric Bittle's sophomore year at Samwell University. Bitty, as he is known to his teammates, it still the shortest member of the college hockey team but now he is also a permanent resident of the Haus. His friendships with the rest of the team have deepened, and his confidence on the ice has grown. Everything is going beautifully until he has to admit to the crush he's got on the team captain, Jack Zimmerman. But Jack is a senior and by the end of the year he'll be gone, possibly forever.

A set of wonderful, queer, feminist tales of mothering a wild daughter. I started reading this book while on the bus and became so engrossed I missed my stop. Highly recommend!

This is the beautiful result of Lucy Bellwood's highly successful kickstarter campaign last year. This book collects Bellwood's tall-ship sailing comics all together in color with a new story about the real scourge of the high seas: scurvy! A gorgeous anthology, and now available to order in hardback from comic book stories anywhere.

Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville (known on the internet as Madlori) began life as very AU Brokeback Mountain fic. Now it is a solid and solidly enjoyable crime drama/gay romance novel. Jack Francisco is a doctor living in Baltimore whose life is turned completely upside down when he witnesses a mafia-related murder, agrees to testify and is forced into a Witness Protection Program while waiting for the trial. D is a hit man hired to kill Jack before he can present his evidence. Things don’t go according to plan for either of them.