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Here’s a short preview of World of Archie Double Digest #26, coming to a comics shop near you next Wednesday. This quick take features art by classic Archie artist Dan DeCarlo, who helped give Betty and Veronica their iconic look; you can see more of his work in the recent anthology The Art of Betty [...]
It’s been a while since we have done a links column so some of these have been bookmarked for a while. But it’s all good stuff! As we mentioned a little while ago, the UK children’s weekly comic The Phoenix is now available as an iOS app, and I chatted with Russell Willis, the developer [...]
It’s short and sweet today. Here’s the scoop on the latest Jughead Double Digest: It’s time for the big rematch! The ice shuffleboard championship of the universe is on and Archie and Reggie intend to school their Central High rivals good! But when Reggie suffers a sprain that prevents him from playing, it’s up to [...]
It’s Adventure Time! We haven’t run a preview of this comic, which spins wildly off the animated cartoon, in a while, but it seems to be getting a lot of buzz. As always, this issue is written by Ryan North and illustrated by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline; we have a five-page preview followed by [...]
Garfield is off to solve a mystery in the latest graphic novel from Papercutz: His food bowl is gone. Oh the humanity! Check out our preview of vol. 8 of Garfield, below, and keep an eye out for the book, which just came out this week.
Teenager Aliera Carstairs has a pretty good head on her shoulders. She doesn’t have much patience for angst or drama; she describes herself as “A smart, lonely girl with a singular talent for swordplay.” By swordplay, she means fencing, which she is serious about and which forms the motif for both Yolen’s first book, Foiled, [...]
Who would have thought that one of the most successful graphic novels of the past few years would be about Lego ninja warriors? Actually, anyone who gave it any thought at all—Lego is awesome, ninjas are awesome, and graphic novels are awesome. It’s three great tastes that taste great together. In this latest volume, the [...]
Hey, it’s comics about cartoonists—Riverdale style! In Archie and Friends Double Digest #23, out this week in comics shops, we get two stories about the struggles of the creative life. First Chuck Clayton ignores his girlfriend, Nancy, because he’s too busy cartooning, and then when Chuck tries to help a fellow creator come up with [...]
Quite a bit happened while we were away on hiatus; here are the highlights. I’ve been waiting for this for a while: The UK children’s comic The Phoenix is finally available as an iPad app; before this, you could only buy it in a specific grocery store in the UK. The app includes a free [...]
Let’s start off the weekend—and the year—with a little silliness: A preview from The Best of the Three Stooges, vol. 2, which collects the first issues of the original Three Stooges comics, created in the 1950s by Norman Maurer and Pete Alvarado. The book will be out on January 15; in the meantime, enjoy some [...]
As the end of the year approaches, we have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that SLJ will be moving Good Comics for Kids will be moving over to their new site soon. That means the blog will load faster and we’ll have a sleek new look as well. (And [...]
It’s double the fun this week with previews of two Betty and Veronica comics, both on sale in comics shops this week. In Betty and Veronica #263, the characters don’t behave in entirely predictable ways. Veronica is a cheerleader, but she is a rookie, not one of the stars of the team; Archie is on [...]
It’s double the fun this week with previews of two Betty and Veronica comics, both on sale in comics shops this week.
In Betty and Veronica #263, the characters don’t behave in entirely predictable ways. Veronica is a cheerleader, but she is a rookie, not one of the stars of the team; Archie is on the [...]
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking By Charles M. Schulz Fantagraphics Review by J. Caleb Mozzocco Form coincides with content in Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, a new collection of two 1960s picture-book style comics efforts from Charles Schulz. The title story concerns the Peanuts gang’s musings on the stocking tradition (and good old Charlie Brown’s dilemma of [...]
Please welcome our newest blogger here at Good Comics for Kids, J. Caleb Mozzocco. Caleb is so new that he doesn’t even have his avatar yet, but he couldn’t wait to get started, so here’s his first review. Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown By Carl Barks Fantagraphics It must be getting close to Christmas. [...]
With the air filled with holiday tunes and the TV schedule filled with holiday specials, we thought it would be an opportune time to recommend some of our favorite holiday-themed graphic novels as well. I’ll start with Craig Yoe’s Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories. I love a big, colorful treasury like this, and [...]
With the air filled with holiday tunes and the TV schedule filled with holiday specials, we thought it would be an opportune time to recommend some of our favorite holiday-themed graphic novels as well.
I’ll start with Craig Yoe’s Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories. I love a big, colorful treasury like this, and Yoe [...]
With a lineup that includes Ninjago, the Three Stooges, and Power Rangers, the Papercutz folks are all about having fun. And what could be more fun than Annoying Orange? Here’s a look at their Annoying Orange graphic novel, due out in stores next week.
In case you missed it (easy to do if you’re an adult), [...]
With a lineup that includes Ninjago, the Three Stooges, and Power Rangers, the Papercutz folks are all about having fun. And what could be more fun than Annoying Orange? Here’s a look at their Annoying Orange graphic novel, due out in stores next week.
In case you missed it (easy to do if you’re an adult), [...]
With a lineup that includes Ninjago, the Three Stooges, and Power Rangers, the Papercutz folks are all about having fun. And what could be more fun than Annoying Orange? Here’s a look at their Annoying Orange graphic novel, due out in stores next week. In case you missed it (easy to do if you’re an [...]
