Graphic Novels
The “Good Comics for Kids” (blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids) bloggers were burning the midnight oil this year, with a batch of top-notch fall releases that kept us reading—and debating—right up to our deadline. The top trend this year: kids’ books with adult appeal.
Today we look at four graphic novels which together show the vast range of the format, in terms of artwork, content, and form. The Cute Girl Network, written by Greg Means and MK Reed and illustrated by Joe Flood, shows the format at its most traditional: cartoon-like artwork, fully sequential panels, and a standard romantic [...]
While away the long weekend with turkey sandwiches and some of this week’s new releases! Archie Comics releases a new issue of the Sonic Super Special Magazine featuring a comic adaptation of the new Sonic the Hedgehog video game, Sonic Lost Worlds. Kodansha Comics has the second volume of Sherlock Bones, featuring the cutest version [...]
The Angoulême International Comics Festival (or, to call it by its proper name, the Festival International de la Bande Dessinee) is the largest comics festival in Europe and the second largest in the world. It truly is an international festival, drawing guests and attendees from all over the world. The festival has its own awards, [...]
It’s a cartoon-a-palooza on this week’s new comics list, with both old and new shows making a showing. BOOM! Studios has new issues of Adventure Time and Regular Show. IDW releases new issues of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Samurai Jack, and Bongo Comics prepares from winter with one of the granddaddys of [...]
Children’s book publisher Candlewick Press announced the acquisition of a new graphic novel this week: Honor Girl, by Maggie Thrash. This will be Thrash’s first full-length work in print; she writes fiction and nonfiction for Rookie Magazine and is the creator of the webcomic Can’t Lose If You Don’t Play. Here’s the 411 on the [...]
Gene Luen Yang’s two-volume set Boxers & Saints is one of the most talked-about books of the year—the internet is dotted with reviews of the book and interviews with Yang—and when we started talking among ourselves, we quickly realized that we all had plenty to say—and we didn’t always agree. So we decided to put [...]
The holiday season is creeping up all too quickly, even in the new comics this week! Archie Comics is already looking to Christmas with both Archie Double Digest and Betty and Veronica Double Digest featuring stories about the holiday. Marvel Comics has the trade of the Oz comic Road to Oz, and Perfect Square, Viz [...]
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