MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2016
It’s snowing in Riverdale, and the gang are enjoying the season in Jughead and Archie Winter Annual #24. In the new lead story, written and penciled by Dan Parent, Archie and Jughead take Jughead’s little sister Jellybean sledding, and in two classic stories, we see Archie mess up skating (even when he’s not on the […]
Take a break from decking the halls with some of the new releases out this week. BOOM! Studios releases Steven Universe 2016 Special, featuring the citizens of Beach City. Over at DC Comics, Scooby Doo Where Are You #76 gets literary as the gang investigates a library haunted by the ghosts of Shakespeare and Edgar […]
The finalists have been announced for the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s Prix Jeunesse, which will be awarded at the festival itself, held in Angoulême, France, in January. Angoulême is a truly international festival, and the nominees reflect the interest the French audience has in imported graphic novels; at the same time, French graphic novels are […]
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea By Ben Clanton Tundra; $7.99 Narwhal the narwhal and Jelly the jellyfish might seem like unlikely friends, but the pair have a few things in common. First and foremost, they share a love of waffles, which one might think would be a true rarity given the watery, unfriendly-to-waffles habitats of […]
The ice-fishing craze hits Riverdale in Dan Parent’s new lead story for Betty & Veronica Comics Double Digest #249. What, you didn’t know there was an ice fishing craze? Where’ve ya been? Learn more and have a couple of chuckles besides in our exclusive preview. The digest goes on sale in comic shops on Wednesday. […]
Why are Betty and Veronica putting up Halloween decorations in December? Learn the answers to these and many other important questions in Betty & Veronica Friends Jumbo Comics Digest #252, on sale in comic shops next Wednesday. In the meantime, you can satisfy your curiosity about the window stickers by reading our preview of Dan […]
Fill some stockings with some this week’s new releases. BOOM! Studios releases trades of Lumberjanes with Volume 5 and Volume 1 of Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems. IDW Publishing wraps up Atomic Robo and the Temple of Od, while Oni Press finishes Mighty Zodiac. The List: ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT Awake Volume 2 Escape From Gremon […]
Big news from BOOM! Studios: Today they are announcing their second Garfield original graphic novel, Garfield: Unreality TV, which will be written by Scott Nickel, Mark Evanier, and Judd Winick and illustrated by Winick and Antonio Alfaro. Winick is the author of the Eisner-nominated Pedro and Me, which won many awards and was a YALSA […]
In addition to being an award-winning cartoonist, MacArthur Fellow, and the Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Gene Luen Yang is a former high school computer science teacher, and he brought that expertise in both coding and writing to his graphic novel series Secret Coders (ably illustrated by Mike Holmes). So of course he’s going to […]
Andrew Arnold has a dual career: He’s the new (since August) associate director of art and design for the graphic novel imprint First Second, and he’s also a comics creator himself—he is one of the co-authors of Adventures in Cartooning (together with James Sturm and Alexis Frederick-Frost) and its many sequels and spinoffs. First Second, […]
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