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April 1, 2015 by Brigid Alverson

Links: More Phoebe, the Return of Planetes, and a James Kochalka Crossover

April 1, 2015 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

There’s a new comic on the funny pages, and Good Comics for Kids readers already know about it: Phoebe and Her Unicorn started as a webcomic, and Esther reviewed the print collection here. Creator Dana Simpson tells the Deseret News that the comic started out with just the girl, and the unicorn was supposed to be a single gag, but she quickly realized that it was an essential part of the story.

Planetes is back! Dark Horse has picked up the license for the four-volume sci-fi manga about intergalactic junkmen, which was originally published by Tokyopop, and they will release it in two-volume omnibus format.

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It’s a James Kochalka crossover! Top Shelf announced that Kochalka’s next kids’ book will be Johnny Boo Meets Dragon Puncher! You can see a preview at the link; the book will be out in June.

Jen Wang, the artist of In Real Life, talks about writing the gender-swapped Adventure Time mini-series Fionna and Cake, which was announced at Emerald City Comic Con last weekend.

Matthew Jent interviews Hope Larson about adapting Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time into graphic-novel format.

Here’s a fun bit of comics nostalgia: Lew Stringer takes a look at The Monkees Crazy Cartoon Book, which came out in 1967.

Kids in a Silver Spring, Maryland, school have an after-school comics-making class thanks to an AmeriCorps program.

Reset your bookmarks: Kids Love Comics has a new website! It looks like they are updating it with lots of fresh comics news, reviews, and links.

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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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