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Kevin Keller to become The Equalizer
Diehard Archie fans know that the Riverdale gang occasionally do a turn as superheroes; Archie Andrews first donned the cape of Pureheart the Powerful back in 1965, and he even had his own Pureheart comic for a short while. There was also an Archie Super-Teens comic in the 1990s that only ran for four issues. [...]
Preview: Adventure Time #25
Adventure Time celebrates its 25th issue, out today, with a guest artists Dustin Nguyen, Jess Fink, Jeffrey Brown, and Jim Rugg joining the regular team of writer Ryan North and artists Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb for a special issue that kicks of with… dinosaurs! And if you haven’t seen it already, check out this [...]
Links: First Second to publish new Gene Yang book as digital comics
First Second will be publishing Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s new book, The Shadow Hero, as a monthly digital comic starting this week. The full graphic novel, collecting all six issues, will be released on July 15. The serialization is appropriate: The Shadow Hero creates an origin story for The Green Turtle, the first [...]
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book to become a graphic novel
P. Craig Russell and a posse of other artists are hard at work adapting Neil Gaiman’s 2008 children’s novel The Graveyard Book into graphic-novel form. Russell has worked with Gaiman on a number of adult comics, including several issues of The Sandman and the standalone story Murder Mysteries, which will be reissued in a new [...]
Links: Herobear returns, Bo Obama makes a cameo
BOOM! Studios brought Mike Kunkel’s Herobear and the Kid back in a new edition last year, and now Kunkel says it’s time for more Herobear adventures. It’s been about two weeks since First Second announced that novelist Rainbow Rowell and graphic novel creator Faith Erin Hicks will be collaborating on a new graphic novel; here’s [...]
Preview: Sabrina: The Magic Within, vol. 4
Back in the middle of the manga boom, the Archie folks moved the character Sabrina the Teenage Witch to a manga style, written and mostly drawn by Tania del Rio. The format stayed the same, though—full-color monthly comics, not the black-and-white digests manga readers are accustomed to. Last year, they started re-releasing the comics as [...]
Spring 2014 Graphic Novels for Teens: Mix and Match
Brigid Alverson, the editor of SLJ's Good Comics for Kids blog, curates a list of must-read graphic novels set to publish in Spring 2014. From a slice-of-life drama, teenage wastelands, a trek across the Antarctic, and crazy shoujo manga goodness, these reads make great picks for teens.
Preview: Adventure Time: 2014 Winter Special #1
Here’s a great preview to take off the winter chill: Adventure Time: 2014 Winter Special #1, out this week from BOOM! Studios. Enjoy!
March, Relish win awards at ALA Midwinter
As has often been the case in recent years, there were several graphic novels on the list of honorees at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, which took place in Philadelphia this year. March, Book One, the graphic-novel memoir of Congressman John Lewis’s involvement in the Civil Rights movement, was named a Coretta Scott King [...]
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