Going into a new comic series blind often has mixed results since you have limited expectations, if any, about what’s coming, but you often at least finish the first chapter with a decent idea of what ...

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond. From “The Spaceman.”Credit...Randy Cecil Supported by ...

There’s a special delight for children in comical picture books that say one thing and mean another—that is, when the words depart from the pictures in such a way that a child feels let in on the joke ...