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February 18, 2014 by Brigid Alverson

Links: First Second to publish new Gene Yang book as digital comics

February 18, 2014 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

First Second will be publishing Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s new book, The Shadow Hero, as a monthly digital comic starting this week. The full graphic novel, collecting all six issues, will be released on July 15. The serialization is appropriate: The Shadow Hero creates an origin story for The Green Turtle, the first Asian-American superhero, who had his own comic back in the 1940s.

Writer and artist Jon Proudstar is bringing back his Native American superhero comic Tribal Force with an explicit message of empowerment for Native American children:

I think Native children need to know who they are. They forget why we fought so hard in the beginning, and why we continue to fight: to fulfill the promise we made with our God to protect this land and take care of it. When you have that strength of knowing where you come from, the greatness your people once had, it’s like you’re Superman. You feel the power.

Still, he says, “But for the most part, it’s a comic book. There’s action and aliens, and weird stuff.”

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Johanna Draper Carlson posts a short preview of Scooby-Doo Team-Up #2, which is super-cute.

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

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