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Since its debut over one hundred years ago, Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) has enjoyed phenomenal popularity, both in its original form and in hundreds of adaptations, from a Broadway musical (1902) and silent film (1910) to a Nintendo role-playing game, a 52-episode anime (1986), a soulful revue (1975), and, of […]
I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers isn’t real. I’m sorry. But what if it was? What if the TV show was really a documentary and everything you saw on the screen had actually taken place, complete with weird aliens, space ships, and cool costumes? […]
The first volume of Svetlana Chmakova’s Nightschool, which has been running as a serial in Yen Plus magazine, is due out in April, and I took the opportunity to talk to Svet, editor JuYoun Lee, and publisher Kurt Hassler for about the creative process and the growing popularity of global manga for Publishers Weekly Comics […]
When I unpacked my order a couple of months back and saw “The War at Ellsmere,” I was sure I had ordered the title by accident or that the vendor had sent me the wrong title. I couldn’t recall even hearing about the title, let alone being interested enough in the description to order it […]
There’s more variety on this week’s list with Antarctic Press, Cinebook and Oni Press joining the weekly regulars. Antarctic finishes it’s Land of Oz Manga: Return to Emerald City. DC has another round of MAD classics. This title is border line AA, but I remember how much fun it was to read JUST BECAUSE it […]
March is Women’s History Month, and in celebration, our blogging crew decided to highlight some comics with strong female characters. Here’s a list of various Eastern or Eastern-influenced comics that have strong-willed women at their center. Special thanks to Sabrina Fritz for compiling this list! SNOW WILDSMITH’S PICKS Pumpkin Scissors (Ryotaro Iwanaga, Del Rey Manga) […]
I interviewed Scott Christian Sava in this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics Week about his new line of children’s graphic novels, each of which is based on a single fun concept, from magic carpets to pirates to pet robots. Also up at PWCW: a generous preview of Adventures in Cartooning, a lovely new book from First […]
Historical fiction is not a genre that shows up often in graphic novels, which has always seemed odd to me. After all, one of the issues of understanding history is the need to be able to identify with people who live in places and times not like your own. Graphic novels have traditionally done a […]
It took me a while to read James Patterson’s Maximum Ride series. I don’t read his adult books, they’re just not my type of reading, and I wasn’t sure what to make of his YA book. But I finally had to read it, to see what all the buzz was about and I liked the […]
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Eva Volin, Esther Keller, Snow Wildsmith, Robin Brenner and I compiled a list of comic book heroines we admired, from Kitty Pride (Uncanny X-Men) to Comrade Sorceress Maya Antares (The Red Star). As we were discussing our favorite characters, I fully expected someone to name Wonder Woman, the character […]
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