Hari Conner's Blog

My favourite books and comics/ graphic novels I read in 2024!

Mostly queer romance and/or fantasy recent releases (the first 3 are 2021-23).

My health problems mean I listen to prose whenever there’s an audiobook available (using libro.fm, who have an extremely good selection). That means the non-graphic novels I recommend almost always have a great audio version too.

Graphic novels I’m more up to date on, and all came out 2024.

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I Shall Never Fall in Love is now out in the UK!

My chronic illness makes events very difficult, but I was able to figure out an immune-safer signing with the wonderful Portobello books (coming in to sign before shop opening!) …

It’s the online comics event of the year: Shortbox online comics festival is upon us, for the month of October ONLY.

These are pretty specific to my own tastes, but there are a huge variety of genres, vibes and stories from some of the most exciting comics creators around, really showing off the incredible possibilities of the medium.

There are a LOT more I want to get and read, but wanted to shout out a few I’ve read and particularly enjoyed so far, while they’re still available…

Summer graphic novel releases I’ve been reading - with queer themes, creators, or characters!

I recently did an interview with the Polish publisher of Into the Dungeon and Into the Tower, where I got to talk about D&D, fantasy inspirations, ancient ruins, and the horrible maps I use to try to keep track of the choices in my gamebooks. It was translated into Polish for their own release, but I got permission to post the English version - here it is below!

I’m starting preliminary work on a project about the vast ocean, its fathomless depths, and being drawn inexorably down into the dark - as well as thinking about the futility of the imperialist mindset trying to ‘conquer’ nature. Here are some of the books and games me (and co-writer Letty Wilson) have been most obsessed with the ideas in, and I found particularly inspirational on these themes.

New comics & upcoming books I'm excited about (with queer characters, themes, romances or authors)…

Otava Heikkilä has a really interesting project funding on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW

Looking back, I read so many amazing comics this year, most of them new releases - below are my favourites I really recommend!

SIDEBAR IF YOU’RE AN AUDIBLE PERSON: my favourite Book Thing of the year was LIBRO.FM!! It’s an Audible alternative that works almost exactly the same but gives money to local bookshops. It’s now available in the UK (and US & Canada), the switch was extremely easy, I strongly recommend it as an easy thing you can do right now to make po...