We start the new year with good news: a new article. Jan Baetens’ contribution to Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society has been published in Volume 2 Issue 3: Hybridized Popular Literature: Fotoromanzi and Cineromanzi in Postwar Italy and France This article addresses a lesser known genre in the graphic narrative field, the photo novel, including the sub-genre of the film photo novel. It offers a brief historical sketch of the photo novel and discusses the key aspe