Comic Books & Graphic Novels: General Resources

Comic Art Fans is an online gallery and marketplace for professional comics art. Registration is necessary if you want to buy and sell art, but you can browse the galleries for free.

The Comic Book Awards Almanac was started by Joel Hahn in 1998 in order to recommend award-winning comics to friends. While it is somewhat out-of-date (entries seem to stop at 2007), it is still a useful resource for looking up which comics have won which awards over the years.

The Comics Chronicles is a resource created by writer John Jackson Miller that tracks sales figures related to the comics industry.

The Comics Journal is a long-running periodical focusing on comics as an art form, available online at their website with a print edition published by Fantagraphics Books. It is an excellent source for profiles on comics professionals, reviews of independent comics, convention and exhibit listings, and more.

Image & Narrative is a scholarly, peer-reviewed online journal about words and images and the myriad relationships that exist between them.

The Grand Comic Database is a community-based online database dedicated to ultimately indexing every comic book ever published. It is an excellent resource for cover images and information about virtually any comic issue in existence.