MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2013
Select some comics for the long weekend! Archaia Entertainment finishes the Mouse Guard: Black Axe mini-series this week. Get a dose of the Marvel animated universe with new issues of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Ultimate Spider-Man Digest. And in honor of Charles Darwin’s 114th birthday, Smithsonian Books releases a graphic biography of the […]
Mameshiba translates literally to “Bean Dog,” bean-shaped creatures with dog faces and ears. They started out as a series of TV trivia shorts in Japan and became so popular they got their own merchandising line. Viz Media picked up these popular and cute pups and have created an original series of books for young readers. […]
Our first title to discuss from the YALSA Hub Reading Challenge is Raina Telgemeier’s Drama. Drama has been singled out as one of the Great Graphic Novels for Teens Top Ten for 2013, and was also selected as a Stonewall Book Award Honor book. As a refresher, the Great Graphic Novels for Teens Selection list […]
From those of us who attend ALA Midwinter in Seattle, here are our top five comics related highlights of the conference! Listening to the roar of approval when Raina Telgemeier’s Drama was announced as a Stonewall honor book! I believe the title’s selection was a bit of a surprise to everyone, not in that the […]
It’s been a while since we have done a links column so some of these have been bookmarked for a while. But it’s all good stuff! As we mentioned a little while ago, the UK children’s weekly comic The Phoenix is now available as an iOS app, and I chatted with Russell Willis, the developer […]
Now this is a list! The Penguins of Madagascar are back at Ape Entertainment with a new trade. It’s the dueling cartoon hits as BOOM! Studios has the next issue of Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake while IDW has the third issue of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Viz Media has more Voltron […]
On Saturday, June 23, and Sunday, June 24, while attending the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, I ran around to as many of my favorite kids comics creators as I could and asked them all the exact same questions. Keep in mind, exhibit halls are crazy loud and crazy busy, so there […]
How up are you on the year’s best graphic novels? Want to join in the challenge to read this year’s best of the best? When the awards are announced at the American Library Association’s Midwinter conference every year, we librarians (and book nerds everywhere) start amassing a pile of titles we need to catch up […]
You wouldn’t think a story about an ancient Japanese game that consists of placing stones on a board would be very exciting. But in the case of Hikaru no Go, you would be very wrong. The writer-artist team of Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata created a series of well developed characters and games filled with […]
Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll Vol. 5 By Yumi Tsukirino Viz Media The fifth volume of this series is also its final volume, and it probably shouldn’t prove all that surprising that at its end it simply stops rather than concludes. Based on a super-simple, super-cute Sanrio character that’s only a few degrees more complicated than […]
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