Graphic Novels
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..."
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, [...]
from regular AB4T graphic novel guest blogger, Francisca Goldsmith: Cortés gained popular stature last year with his sweetly counterpoint art in satiric Go the F**k to Sleep. That’s part of his genius: giving the eye important information barely hinted at in the text. In “The Secret History” series, of which this exploration of Coffee, Coca, and [...]
Adventure Time is a cartoon series that is popular with both boys and girls. In its third season they did a one-off episode that gender-swapped all the characters, which surprisingly became one of their most popular episodes. I know my kids loved it. When we went to Wondercon last year, there was a lot of [...]
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 [...]
It’s a new year, and that means—more of the same of your favorite titles! Capstone continues to feed young readers’ desires for superhero books with the DC Super Heroes line. DC Comics releases the first trade collecting the first arc of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, IDW collects the first arc of Popeye for his [...]
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