Graphic Novels

Disney Beauty and The Beast: The Beast’s Tale and Disney Beauty and The Beast: Belle’s Tale Writer: Mallory Reaves Artists: Studio Dice Tokyopop; $10.99 All Ages I was initially pretty perplexed as to why Disney was bothering to make live-action remakes of some of its classic animated films, particularly those like The Jungle Book and […]

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 1 Writer/artist: Ryoko Fukuyama Viz; $9.99 Rated T for Teen Nino Arisugawa has a great voice—and lousy luck with friends. As a child, she shared her love of singing with her next door neighbor Momo…until he suddenly disappeared, his family having skipped town without even giving her a chance to say goodbye. […]

Hop down the Bunny Lane for some sweet new comics. IDW Publishing delves further in the history of the world of My Little Pony with Legends Of Magic #1. BOOM! Studios wraps up their BOOM Box series about the dorky cupid who can find love for anyone but herself, Jonesy, while DC Comics completes Art […]

Breaking news from BOOM! Studios! In September, they will publish The Amazing World of Gumball: After School Special, their third original graphic novel based on the Cartoon Network series. This graphic novel is an anthology of stories about the Gumball crew from a variety of creators, many of whom will be familiar to our readers, […]

Itty Bitty Hellboy By Art Baltazar and Franco Dark Horse, 2014 Ages 8 and up You have to give Art and Franco points for boldness: It’s one thing to do Tiny Titans comics about DC superheroes—most kids have heard of Superman. Hellboy, on the other hand, is not exactly a children’s property. Indeed, this book […]

Need a break from Spring Break? Pick up some of this week’s new releases! IDW Publishing lets Art Baltazar loose in their Hasbro Universe crossover with Revolution Aw Yeah #1. Explore the universe in Lerner Publishing’s Smash: Exploring The Mysteries of the Universe With the Large Hadron Collider, while Titan Publishing Group expands on the […]

Writer Moore ("Doctor Who" series) and artist Nagulakonda (Krishna: Defender of Dharma) tell the story of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, who lived and taught between the sixth and fifth centuries BCE...

Black Ships (a term used in Japan for foreign vessels arriving in the country in the 16th and 19th centuries) depicts one of the most significant events in modern world history: the discovery of Japan in 1854 by the U...

Expats writing about teaching and traveling in Asia: nothing new, but how many of them take years to capture the actual look of their surroundings alongside the expected culture clashes and the feelings of dislocation and loneliness? That's the story behind writer/illustrator Martinson's three-volume Tōnoharu, the saga of a young American working in the titular rural Japanese village as an assistant junior high school teacher...