MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2015
I’ve always been open and honest about being a late comer to the comics world. I’d only read a handful of comics until 10-12 years ago, when I decided to bring comics into my school’s library. I then started to read sporadically, until I joined ALA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens selection committee. Only then […]
Human Body Theater Writer/artist: Maris Wicks First Second; $20 In addition to being a cartoonist, Maris Wicks is a program educator at the New England Aquarium, and some of her best-known and most-read comics have managed to marry her talent for cartooning with her interest in education. Think, for example, of her 2013 collaboration with […]
Mystery, Inc. takes a spa day in our exclusive preview of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #62. Here’s the 411: After Scooby’s not-so-monthly bath spoils Daphne’s sacred beauty regimen, she enlists Velma for a day at the spa! But lounging around in towels is only fun until the towels turn on you. And when there’s a […]
It’s a treasure trove of new releases this week! Archie Comics continues their reboot with Jughead getting the makeover treatment and a new title, Jughead #1. The Lumberjanes get their second collected trade, Friendship to the Max, while Marvel Comics brings the Guardians of the Galaxy back, this time with their own ongoing series. The […]
From Jem and the Holograms to The Walking Dead, there’s going to be plenty of good reading this fall. Join me and three graphic novel experts—Sven Larsen of Papercutz, Emily Botica of Diamond Book Distributors, and Michael J. Martens of Dark Horse—for an SLJ webcast on The Hottest Graphic Novels of Fall 2015 on Wednesday, […]
Was it in honor of Scholastic’s 10th anniversary or was it because Raina Telgemeier titles are in such high demand? Is that why Scholastic reissued the Babysitter’s Club in color? Back in May, I spoke to a Scholastic rep at Book Expo and she said that both were considerations. Mostly, she explained, it had to […]
Daffy Duck tangles with the IRS in Looney Tunes #227, which will be out in comic shops on Wednesday: When IRS investigator Egghead appears on Daffy’s doorstep, Daffy panics and tries everything he can to get rid of him. Let’s see if Daffy can get through all the red tape—or will the red tape (literally!) […]
Magic is in the air and on this week’s list of new releases. BOOM! Studios lets loose the ninth issue of the magical girl temp series Bee And Puppycat, while Dark Horse Comics releases the second issue of their new magical girl series Zodiac Starforce. Music is magic at IDW Publishing as the first Jem […]
A powerful being with the head of a smiley face and an unknown number of tentacles blasts a hole in the moon and says he’ll do the same to the earth if humanity doesn’t stop him first. He makes a deal with the world’s leaders to become the teacher of Class 3-E from Kunugigaoka Junior […]
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