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It’s more of the same this week with a dash of a few new titles to keep things interesting. Boom! Studios debuts another ongoing series, this time for Cars, and Uncle Scrooge comes to the publisher ready to start a new adventure. CMX brings out the second volume of Tale of An Unknown Country, which […]
Crogan’s Vengeance, the first book in Chris Schweizer’s series, The Crogan Adventures, is about “Catfoot” Crogan’s time serving on a pirate ship. It was a critical success, earning an Eisner nomination and a place on the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, among other honors. The second book, Crogan’s March, about Peter Crogan, a soldier […]
In 1928, the sleepy town of Trepassey in Newfoundland became the focus of international attention. Amelia Earhart, the woman aviator, was using Trepassey as the launching point for her attempt to be the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic. Told from the perspective of Grace, a young girl in town who writes the […]
Congratulations to Eleanor Davis, whose Secret Science Alliance won a Cybils Award over the weekend, for best graphic novel in the children’s and middle grade books category, and Tom Siddell, whose Gunnerkrigg Court (also a webcomic) was named best YA graphic novel. At The Comics Journal, Michael Arthur has a video interview with Davis and […]
Myths and legends don’t have to just tells tales of heroic deeds or explain natural phenomena. Sometimes a tale can be used to teach a life lesson that will help the younger members of a culture fit in and be more responsible adults. This legend from East Africa does just that as Marwe learns some […]
I love making lists of books that seem to go together, whether it’s for a bookmark to hand out or to help with planning a display. So I thought I’d poll the collective wisdom of everyone here at Good Comics for Kids and indulge my book nerd/list maker side at the same time. Each month […]
One of the things I love most about finishing books is having the chance to talk about them with other people who have read (and finished) the same book. It’s even better when I have the chance to discuss books with people who read with their brains engaged. (You may not realize how rare this […]
Boom! Studios is quickly becoming the place to go for a variety of kid friendly books with their Disney, Disney/Pixar, and Muppet lines. Be sure to check out the trades Muppet Peter Pan, and the Wizards of Mickey, as well as a new title that also a pick this week. IDW has jumped on the […]
Someone in his pet shop keeps stealing Mr. Venezi’s sandwich and he assumes it’s the koalas, er, hamsters. (Mr. Venezi isn’t very good with telling animals apart.) Hamisher, a new hamster in the shop, knows it isn’t the hamsters who are stealing the sandwich. If it isn’t the hamsters, though, then which of the animals […]
Life imitates art: In this Unshelved cartoon, Dewey the librarian compiles a list of "books teen boys would read (if they knew they existed)." Enough people asked for the (nonexistent) list that the creators opened up a discussion. I’m mentioning it here, of course, because a number of graphic novels have come up—and they may […]
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