Graphic Novels
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 [...]
"By encouraging their students to create comic strips, teachers accomplish important goals: they prepare their students for being able to appreciate art more, to gain visual literacy."
Science has achieved one of man’s greatest dreams: time travel! Using a time gun, one can travel through time, but criminal forces have gotten their hands on this technology and are robbing the past of its treasures. All over the world, secret time agents work to keep history in its correct order. Mortensen is one [...]
"Visual literacy is as old as humanity. Humans learned to communicate visually before they communicated with text. It’s really not new; it just might feel new."
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 [...]
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