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The latest installment of Good Manga for Kids focuses on two titles for the under-twelve crowd: Dinosaur King (VIZ) and The Lizard Prince (CMX). Despite their similar titles, Dinosaur King and The Lizard Prince couldn’t be more different. The first is a shonen (boys’) manga featuring time travel, talking dinosaurs, and evil scientists intent on […]
After their adventurer parents are killed on an expedition, four children–brother and sister pairs Conner and Joss and Mitch and Becca–are sent to live in a mysterious old house with their godparents, the Macombers. In the New Brighton Woods surrounding the house, they discover a magical world of beings they had only heard of in […]
Gene Yuen Lang, the author of American Born Chinese and Prime Baby, talks about teaching math and being a dad, and how both affect his work, with the San Francisco Chronicle. Dan Parent talks about the creation of Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in Archie comics, in this interview with MSNBC. This article […]
It’s a whole lot of good stuff this week! Ape Entertainment has a prequel comic for the upcoming Shrek Forever movie in theaters this summer, and Archaia has the first of a four part mini series of the old favorite Fraggle Rock. Dark Horse keeps the old school comics coming with the Giant Size Little […]
Saturday, May 1, is Free Comic Book Day, when comics stores offer a selection of special comics for free to the public. Many of the comics are kid-friendly and all are safe for all ages. You can see a preview of the Tiny Titans FCBD comic at Comics Alliance, where Laura Hudson also chats with […]
Dorothy’s adventures in Oz continue in this collection of comics whjch have all the heart and soul of those penned by creator L. Frank Baum. First Dorothy and the Scarecrow encounter a mysterious castle while out on a walk. It turns out that the castle is there to protect the Enchanted Apples of Oz. If […]
Long-time Good Comics for Kids readers (and anyone who has come within spitting distance of me, for that matter) know how much I love Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon and Dean Hale and Nathan Hale. Its combination of fairytale retelling, kick-ass heroine, and Wild West setting worked perfectly for me and has become a favorite in […]
It’s time for some old fashion action and adventure as this week Campfire brings two Edgar Rice Burroughs titles to graphic novels with both the Land and People That Time Forgot. IDW collects Digger & Friends into a convenient to read (and shelve) collection. And the picks this week feature some female superheroes and some […]
One of the trickiest aspects of reviewing comics for kids is knowing which titles they’ll actually like, as opposed to which titles well-meaning adults (like me!) think they ought to like. Case in point: in August 2009, I reviewed the first volume of ChocoMimi, a title I disliked for its rather dim, materialistic heroines. When […]
I was at C2E2 over the weekend, and I wrote up a lot of stories about it for different venues. Here’s my summary of the kids’ comics scene at PWCW. Kristy Valenti takes a look at Raina Telgemeier’s Baby-Sitter’s Club graphic novels and discusses what makes them tick. Tim O’Shea interviews Nicolas Hitori de, one […]
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