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The 2023 Dragon Awards nominees announced. Check out the comic nominees!

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Presented annually at DragonCon, the nominations for the 2023 Dragon Awards have been revealed. The awards cover video games, movies, books, comics, and more.

This year, the “Best Comic Book” and “Best Graphic Novel” categories have been combined into one, “Best Comic Book or Graphic Novel.”

Congrats to everyone nominated. And the comic and graphic novel nominees are…

  • Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson, Michael Shelfer (BOOM! Studios)
  • Kaya by Wes Craig (Image Comics)
  • Dawn of DC: Green Arrow by Joshua Williamson, Sean Izaakse (DC Comics)
  • Wolverine by Benjamin Percy, Juan Jose Ryp (Marvel)
  • X-Men by Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara (Marvel)
  • Night Fever by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips (Image Comics)

Voting can be found on the DragonCon website. The winners will be announced during DragonCon weekend, Aug. 31-Sept. 4.

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Brynmore #1

The weekend is almost here! What exciting things are you all doing? Sound off in the comments below! While you decide on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

Forbes – New Manga, Webtoon Imprints Flourish As Publishers Aim For Red Hot Market – What do you all think of this?

Cleveland Jewish News – Comic book aims to educate against Jewish conspiracy theories – Pretty cool idea.

Reviews

CBR – Brynmore #1
CBR – Carnage Reigns Omega #1
Atomic Junk Shop – Night Fever
CBR – The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #1

Night Fever is a fantastic graphic novel about the struggle between who we were and who we become

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What if you had it all: wife, kids, stable career that involved international travel, but that wasn’t enough so you stumble into another identity and a wild world of sex, violence, and weirder, let’s say, more hallucinogenic things. This is the premise of Night Fever.

Story: Ed Brubaker
Art: Sean Phillips
Colors: Jacob Phillips

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Night Fever is a thrilling genre story with a unique visual language

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Night Fever

What if you had it all: wife, kids, stable career that involved international travel, but that wasn’t enough so you stumble into another identity and a wild world of sex, violence, and weirder, let’s say, more hallucinogenic things. This is the premise of Night Fever, a new graphic novel from Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips. Night Fever‘s Jon is a foreign book buyer for a prestigious publisher and is off to a convention in Paris to get sales for his company. However, an advanced reading copy he flips through on the plane features a dream very similar to one that he has been having, and this leads to sleepless nights and the exact opposite of a boring day at the convention as Jon takes the new name Griffin and gets into incidents that are more Grand Theft Auto than the literary fiction that he peddles.

This overall tone of insomnia and losing touch with reality pervades much of Night Fever, especially its visuals with Jacob Phillips picking a big background color for each setting from red for a masquerade party to a cooler blue for Jon’s tossing, turning existential crises and others as the book progresses. The chosen color is a like a guide post through the askew angles and surreal storytelling choices from Sean Phillips and also help you get into Jon’s headspace as he begins to do things he’s only read about in books and sheds his boring, working life for a bit at night. The almost neurotic narration from Brubaker does act as a kind of tether between Griffin and Jon while also adding psychological depth to him. Ed Brubaker’s captions continue to be some of the best and are additive to the visual experience like a director’s commentary to a thrilling film.

And speaking of thrilling, Night Fever has some exciting set pieces that I won’t spoil the context of in this review and are more immersive because Jon/Griffin is definitely someone who most people think that they could take in a fight and probably drives the speed limit on the highway. Seeing him and his new friend Rainer getting in chases, fist fights, and even wilder situations after the staid conversations and plane trips of the book’s early pages reminded me a lot of films, books, and comics where a regular Joe worker becomes a heroic, or in this case, more active figure in the narrative of their life. In fact, the insomnia angle reminded me a lot of Fight Club (Which actually got comic book sequels), but with less satire and more of a focus on Jon’s personal journey and intoxication with this sexy, fisticuff filled alternate world instead of doing his job and going back to wife and kids. Brubaker and Phillips take a seasoned perspective on this escapism while still not undermining the fact that it’s easy to get into ruts in life even when you think gotten everything you ever wanted.

Night Fever is a midlife crisis dressed up in Day-Glo with insightful scripting from Ed Brubaker and dreamy art from Sean Phillips plus some of the best coloring work ever done by Jacob Phillips. It’s best read late at night before getting up for your shitty day job and succeeds both as a character study and a thrilling genre story with a unique visual language that makes it stand out from Brubaker and Phillips’ other collaborations.

Story: Ed Brubaker Art: Sean Phillips Colors: Jacob Phillips
Story: 8.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

Image Comics Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: Zeus Comics – Bookshop – Amazon – Kindle

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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INTERTWINED LAST JEWISH DAUGHTER OF KAIFENG

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

Animal Castle Vol. 2 #2 (Ablaze) – The series has been a fantastic adaptation and take on the classic Animal Farm.

Battle Chasers #10 (Image Comics) – After such a delay, Battle Chasers is back after a Kickstarter promising its return. Joe Madureira isn’t providing art so without that, such a long time, and more, will the return be worth it?

Black Panther #1 (Marvel) – It’s a new era and new creative team for the character and the status quo is an intriguing one.

Captain America: Cold War Omega #1 (Marvel) – The event wraps up and we have no idea how it’ll shake out when it’s over.

Dead by Daylight #1 (Titan Comics) – The video game gets a comic adaptation.

The Ghost of Kyiv #1 (Tokyopop) – The war propaganda gets a comic series. It’ll be interesting to see how this gets spun.

Haunt You to the End #1 (Image Comics) – A ghost story set at the end of the world. The concept of ghost hunters plus an unstable time period should make for an interesting read.

Intertwined: Last Jewish Daughter of Kaifeng #1 (Fairsquare Comics) – In time for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month as well as Jewish American Heritage Month, fan-favorite series Intertwined is back with a 64 page special dedicated to the only Asian Jewish character in comics: the new Spirit of Water!

Klik Klik Boom #1 (Image Comics) – Meet Sprout, a mute assassin who communicates exclusively through polaroid pictures. Sprout is heading to New York City to avenge her grandfather’s muder.

Magic Planeswalkers: Noble #1 (BOOM! Studios) – A new set of releases that’ll take us to different realms in the Magic Multiverse from different creators and featuring different creators.

Night Fever (Image Comics) – A new graphic novel from Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips. Enough said.

Nuking Alaska (Graphic Mundi) – A graphic novel about the threat of nuclear war in the 80s.

Spider-Man: Fake Red (VIZ Media) – Yu’s new high school is kind of awful. He’s failing his classes and striking out socially. Everything changes when he finds one of Spider-Man’s costumes abandoned in an alleyway

Spider-Man India #1 (Marvel) – The cult favorite character gets a miniseries shining the spotlight.

Void Rivals #1 (Skybound/Image Comics) – Kicking off “The Energon Universe,” the comic is the official start of Transformers and G.I. Joe at Skybound!

Waller vs. Wildstorm #2 (DC Comics) – The first issue waw fantastic, again bringing together the Wildstorm universe with the DC Universe with Waller at the center doing her shenanigans.

WildC.A.T.s #8 (DC Comics) – The series has been so much fun delivering a new mix of the classic characters and really bringing them into the DC Universe.

Xino #1 (Oni Press) – A new sci-fi anthology series featuring some fantastic creators.

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Night Fever

The weekend is over with multiple conventions having taken place. Any news stand out to you? Sound off in the comments. While you start your day, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

The Beat – Korean publisher investigated following suicide of Black Rubber Shoes creator – Good.

Kotaku – Dying Marvel’s Avengers Game Unlocks Nearly Everything For Free – Huh. Cool?

Reviews

CBR – Dungeons & Dragons Saturday Morning Adventures #1
The Beat – Night Fever
CBR – Star Wars: Jabba’s Palace #1

Early Review: Night Fever is a thrilling genre story with a unique visual language

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Night Fever

What if you had it all: wife, kids, stable career that involved international travel, but that wasn’t enough so you stumble into another identity and a wild world of sex, violence, and weirder, let’s say, more hallucinogenic things. This is the premise of Night Fever, a new graphic novel from Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips that is dropping this summer. Night Fever‘s Jon is a foreign book buyer for a prestigious publisher and is off to a convention in Paris to get sales for his company. However, an advanced reading copy he flips through on the plane features a dream very similar to one that he has been having, and this leads to sleepless nights and the exact opposite of a boring day at the convention as Jon takes the new name Griffin and gets into incidents that are more Grand Theft Auto than the literary fiction that he peddles.

This overall tone of insomnia and losing touch with reality pervades much of Night Fever, especially its visuals with Jacob Phillips picking a big background color for each setting from red for a masquerade party to a cooler blue for Jon’s tossing, turning existential crises and others as the book progresses. The chosen color is a like a guide post through the askew angles and surreal storytelling choices from Sean Phillips and also help you get into Jon’s headspace as he begins to do things he’s only read about in books and sheds his boring, working life for a bit at night. The almost neurotic narration from Brubaker does act as a kind of tether between Griffin and Jon while also adding psychological depth to him. Ed Brubaker’s captions continue to be some of the best and are additive to the visual experience like a director’s commentary to a thrilling film.

And speaking of thrilling, Night Fever has some exciting set pieces that I won’t spoil the context of in this review and are more immersive because Jon/Griffin is definitely someone who most people think that they could take in a fight and probably drives the speed limit on the highway. Seeing him and his new friend Rainer getting in chases, fist fights, and even wilder situations after the staid conversations and plane trips of the book’s early pages reminded me a lot of films, books, and comics where a regular Joe worker becomes a heroic, or in this case, more active figure in the narrative of their life. In fact, the insomnia angle reminded me a lot of Fight Club (Which actually got comic book sequels), but with less satire and more of a focus on Jon’s personal journey and intoxication with this sexy, fisticuff filled alternate world instead of doing his job and going back to wife and kids. Brubaker and Phillips take a seasoned perspective on this escapism while still not undermining the fact that it’s easy to get into ruts in life even when you think gotten everything you ever wanted.

Night Fever is a midlife crisis dressed up in Day-Glo with insightful scripting from Ed Brubaker and dreamy art from Sean Phillips plus some of the best coloring work ever done by Jacob Phillips. It’s best read late at night before getting up for your shitty day job and succeeds both as a character study and a thrilling genre story with a unique visual language that makes it stand out from Brubaker and Phillips’ other collaborations.

Night Fever arrives in shops on June 14.

Story: Ed Brubaker Art: Sean Phillips Colors: Jacob Phillips
Story: 8.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

Image Comics Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: Bookshop – Amazon – comiXology/Kindle

New art from Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips’ Night Fever revealed!

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Image Comics has revealed a stunning new cover by Sean Phillips for the highly anticipated Night Fever by multiple Eisner Award winning duo Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips with colors by Jacob Phillips. This original graphic novel will hit shelves in June.

In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark… And the question is, what will he do to get home?

Night Fever is a pulse-pounding noir thriller featuring the Jekyll-and-Hyde story of a man facing the darkness inside himself. This riveting tour-of-the-night is a must-have for all Brubaker and Phillips readers.

Night Fever (ISBN: 978-1-5343-2609-5) will be available on Wednesday, June 14 at local comic book shops and on Tuesday, June 20 it will hit shelves at independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo.

Night Fever

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips deliver more noir with Night Fever in June 2023

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Multiple Eisner Award winning grand masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips—of Reckless, Pulp, Criminal, and Kill or Be Killed fame—with colors by Jacob Phillps, will bring fans another sure-fire hit in the upcoming, Night Fever. This original graphic novel will hit shelves in June 2023 from Image Comics.

Night Fever is a pulse-pounding noir thriller featuring the Jekyll-and-Hyde story of a man facing the darkness inside himself. This riveting tour-of-the-night is a must-have for all Brubaker and Phillips readers.

In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark… And the question is, what will he do to get home?

Night Fever (ISBN: 978-1-5343-2609-5) will be available on Wednesday, June 14 at local comic book shops and on Tuesday, June 20 it will hit shelves at independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo.

Night Fever