Tobias Hill is the author of a tale set in modern day Sparta where terror never died. The Hidden made it to the number 2 spot on the recent Best Books of 2009 list for a good reason: you’ll be thinking about it long after you’ve finished reading. I had the opportunity of asking Mr. Hill a few questions about himself and his work.

Tails is a webcomic about Ethan Young, a young man who has problems just like the rest of us, and some problems on top of that. (…)

Reading with Pictures is an organization that supports early childhood literacy through comic books. I had the opportunity to ask founder Josh Elder a few questions about his organization, and I also want to share with you what you can do to help them continue working towards getting comics into the hands of children.

Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the final five books on our Best Books of 2009 list! For a selection of books from both experienced and newly-published authors, the quality that each of these books displays is highly impressive.

Today’s selection of Best Books of 2009, books #10-6, has something to offer nearly every reader, from poetry to post-Soviet Russia, unicorns to parasitic aliens.

As 2009 winds down, Paige MacGregor and Kelly Melcher decided to take a look back at the books released this year in an effort to create a Best Books of 2009 list for our Fandomania readers. The list will be divided into three segments of five books each, counting down from #15.

Kukuburi by Ramón Pérez has an artistic style that I would best describe as being surrealist fairy tale. Every frame is saturated with color, and the detail is quite unique in the realm of webcomics. Fortunately for me, and for the readers of this series, Mr. Pérez was able to take the time to talk to me about the strikingly beautiful Kukuburi.

Get Well Gamers is an organization that furnishes children’s hospitals with video game consoles and games. Having spent some time in the hospital as a youth, founder Ryan Sharpe experienced firsthand the benefits video games have in recuperation and, now that he is older, wants to make sure that more children have the same access he did.

Sometimes you don’t have to go as far as the science fiction section to find stories of alternate realities. Sometimes you just have to know where to look right here on Earth. Strange Telescopes takes the reader into Post-Soviet Russia, where some people have constructed realities that are, as the adage goes, stranger than fiction.

Diva might not be the brightest crayon in the box, but she sets out to be nice (much to her parents’ chagrin) and fair, even though she is a devil. I was able to talk to the creators of Evil Diva, Brinson Thieme, Joe Cashman, and Peter Menotti, about the process and future for the comic series.