Graphic Novels
The fifth Wednesday in the month is usually sparse, but it’s hard to tell when the whole month of January has felt like this! BOOM! Studios’ big hit Adventure Time is about to turn one year old with this month’s issue. The final volume of Roger Langridge’s Snarked is out, completing this great title. And [...]
We review a lot of graphic novels around here (thanks in large part to super-reviewer Francisca Goldsmith) so, as we said on Monday, Angela and I were very happy to see a GN on the Alex Awards list this year. As I somewhat embarrassingly indicated, though, I hadn’t read Derf Backderf’s My Friend Dahmer, so I [...]
Benny and Penny in Lights Out! by Geoffrey Hayes Toon Books/Candlewick Press 978-1-935179-20-7, 32 pp. $12.95 Toon Books once again brings us the adventures of Benny and his little sister Penny in Lights Out! It’s a story all too familiar with parents: little sister Penny is getting ready for bed—she’s brushed her teeth and getting [...]
About a year and a half ago, I was walking through the exhibit hall at Book Expo America and noticed a publisher I wasn’t all that familiar with and a title that had just become the hottest thing in my middle school library. I’m talking about Andrews McMeel Publishing. The series was Big Nate, the [...]
It’s another very short list this week. BOOM! Studios has the next issue in their Peanuts comic series. Marvel continues their Ultimate Spider-Man series as the TV series goes into its second season, and you should pick up Young Justice while you still can. With the cartoon teetering on the edge of cancellation, the comic [...]
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.
It’s a small list this week! Do publishers do inventory as well, and just not stock their shelves in January, like retail? Despite that, there are still some good titles to check out. Marvel Comics has a new issue of the Disney Junior Magazine, and Papercutz has the latest volume in their Garfield and Co. [...]
"There’s a shift towards a more multimodal ways of communicating through digital videos, VoiceThread, and graphic novels/comics that is more appealing and engaging to adolescents who now expect such multimodal ways of learning..."
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