Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
Alex Segura’s Secret Identity is a mesmerizing journey into the subculture of comic books in 1970s New York City, where a woman named Carmen Valdez is struggling to put her stamp on a superhero of her own, and finally gets a chance with “The Lethal Lynx.”...
Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel–hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing. Click here to read the full review
Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
Following a woman contending with the sexism of her industry (the comic book industry in 1970’s New York), SECRET IDENTITY explores what happens when protagonist Carmen’s work is stolen out from under her, and submitted to a publisher without her name appearing...
Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
The 1970s were a fascinating time for the world of comic books. And, as it turns out, that industry at that time also makes for a great setting for a murder mystery. Alex Segura drew on his own knowledge of the industry to write this story of an up-and-coming writer...
Mar 14, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
This novel is a love letter to comics, but it’s a clear-eyed one that doesn’t gloss over the rough edges of its history or imagine the “good old days” as perfect. What does come through is an absolute love of the medium and the ways in which sometimes, as the saying...
Mar 14, 2022 | Blog, News, Reviews
Set in 1975, this outstanding novel from Anthony Award winner Segura (the Pete Fernandez series) stars Carmen Valdez, an obsessive comic book fan since her childhood in Miami, Fla., who now lives in New York City and works on the periphery of her dream as an assistant...
