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Every high school has them, the tough guys whose fearsome looks and mad fighting skills make them the objects of trembling respect. But are they really as tough as they look? What if a romantic heart is beating beneath that muscled chest? CMX offers up two fun new manga series that look at just what […]
When I first heard about Marvel’s Girl Comics, I freely admit from the title alone I rolled my eyes. A few times. However, in investigating a little further, I was excited by the idea of seeing comics created entirely by women hit the comics stores. Is it a media ploy? Yes, likely. Does that mean […]
The Manga Moveable Feast started a month ago, when a bunch of manga bloggers who Twitter back and forth to each other all agreed to read and review the same book. This month the book on the examination table is Kaoru Mori’s series Emma. At the time Emma was named as one of 2008’s […]
In 1942, ten-year-old Evelyn is shipped off to New York City to spend the summer with her avant-garde Aunt Lia while her father gets married yet again. Though Evelyn is rich, she’s never been to the city and isn’t sure that she’ll have any fun hanging around with her aunt’s artist friends. So she loses […]
In 1887, twenty-seven-year-old doctor Arthur Conan Doyle published his first novel. Called A Study in Scarlet, the ninety-five page work featured a "consulting detective" who solved cases using a mixture of science and shrewd observation. The novel was, by most measures, a flop. Doyle persisted, however, reviving the character in 1890 for The Sign of […]
Hill & Wang takes a favorite and a classic and cleverly adapts it to a comic form, bringing this story to a whole new generation. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation Tim Hamilton Publisher’s Age Recommendation- General Adult My Suggested Age Recommendation -14 & up Hill & Wang, July 2009, 978-08090-51014 160 pp, $16.95 […]
The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood By Jeff Kinney Amulet Hardback, $14.95 The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary aims squarely for its audience—fans of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid and its sequels—and hits the sweet spot with a book that keeps some of the tone of the original while turning […]
Was your artwork stolen just before the school art show? Did a thief try to take your new stereo? Are you being blamed for scratching a friend’s new CD? Never fear, help is on the way! Max Finder and Alison Santos, the stars of OWL Magazine‘s popular graphic novel mystery series, are here to help. […]
An elderly king removed from the world of commoners. A palace cook roped into playing assassin. A princess confined to her rooms. A royal fiancé trapped between his duty to his king and that which he owes to his future bride. All of these collide in a story that is part fairy-tale, part contemporary dysfunctional […]
Remember The Muppet Show? This goofy series, which aired from 1976 to 1981, was, at heart, an affectionate parody of vaudeville and variety shows. The humor was broad and cheeky, a mixture of puns, pratfalls, and pop-culture riffs made all the more absurd by the "actors" who delivered the lines: a prudish eagle with a […]
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