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Is calling a title for All Ages misleading? Sometimes, but only in the same way a G rating on a movie is. Comics can be written to appeal to a wide audience or specific to certain age range. An all ages rating may not be that specific, but it’s at least something, and I for […]
This spring, Toon Books will be releasing its first science-based comic, Zig & Wikki in Something Ate My Homework. Penned by Nadja Spiegelman and drawn by Trade Loeffler, readers will enjoy this engaging story of intergalactic beings, coming to Earth in search of a class pet. Below, Nadja Spiegelman talks about her experience as a […]
Jae-Gyu is a naïve twenty-year-old whose grandmother is no longer going to tolerate her laziness. When their home in the country is destroyed, her grandmother and mother find a new home in their small town with only room for the two of them. Jae-Gyu is sent to Seoul to live with her older brother. Not […]
In 2008, Boom! Studios announced that it would be teaming up with Disney to produce kid-friendly comics based on Pixar properties such as Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., and Toy Story. The line debuted earlier this year with a four-issue sequel to The Incredibles penned by industry veteran Mark Waid (The Amazing Spiderman, Captain America, The […]
Graphic Novel Reporter asked librarians and others for their recommendations for the Best Graphic Novel of 2009. Lots of good suggestions here! The Georgetown Record has a nice interview with Cap’n Eli creator Jay Piscopo. (Via All Ages Graphic Novels.) Kiel Phegley talks to Eric Powell, creator of The Goon, about his new project, a […]
Black Friday isn’t here yet, but with the season of giving almost upon us, we thought it was time to give a little something back to our readers. So we will be giving away five sets of Kim Dong Hwa’s The Color of … trilogy to five lucky commenters. The trilogy, which comprises The Color […]
The circulation numbers for graphic novel collections have always been a selling point. Considering my circulations recently, the numbers are truly impressive. Case Closed, as a series, has circulated over 1200 times (with an average of 40 circulations per volume). In prose fiction, this number can’t even be touched by the Twilight series (352 circulations, […]
A week before Thanksgiving, and the list is on the short side this week. Boom! Studios has more Disney goodness to share, including one of my picks for the holidays. Bongo Comics lets the Simpsons run wild through well known stories featuring animals. It’s a twisted dose of animal literature! DC and Image Comics also […]
Graphic Novel Reporter asked librarians and others for their recommendations for the Best Graphic Novel of 2009. Lots of good suggestions here! The Georgetown Record has a nice interview with Cap’n Eli creator Jay Piscopo. (Via All Ages Graphic Novels.) Reviews Jennifer Dunbar on vols. 1 and 2 of Apothecarius Argentum (A word is a […]
Kit doesn’t care about much of anything. Life in his low-rent part of town is rough, but it mostly passes him by. Then one summer his brother kicks him out of the house for two hours and Kit discovers a world of homeless cats. Soon he is feeding almost twenty of them, which catches the […]
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