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Welcome to another edition of The Reading Pile, in which your dedicated Good Comics for Kids bloggers reveal the contents of our bookbags and night tables. We have quite a mix for you this week. As always, feel free to add your own recent reading in the comments section. Mike Pawuk: This week I went […]
They helped create the manga format that brought teenage girls into the graphic novel fold. They published Sailor Moon, the first commercially successful shoujo manga in the U.S., as well as Fruits Basket, Beck, Love Hina, and, more recently, Hetalia: Axis Powers. At one time they were the second largest manga publisher in the U.S. […]
Whether it’s the English country side, or outer space, the fun and adventure just keeps coming! Archaia closes out another Fraggle Rock mini-series, with issue #3 of volume 2. Boom! Studios sends Mickey Mouse to a space hotel where danger awaits, and Campfire has another classic tale for kids to discover, Wind in the Willows. […]
On Sunday, April 3rd, while attending WonderCon, I ran around to as many of my favorite kids comics creators as I could and asked them all the exact same questions. Keep in mind, conventions are crazy loud and crazy busy, so there is a lot of background noise. Let me know in the comments if […]
Viz, the largest manga publisher in the U.S., has a small but growing line of children’s manga, under the VIZ Kids imprint; while they are best known for their Pokemon books, they also publish non-licensed titles such as Panda Man to the Rescue and Taro and the Magic Pencil, as well as the Panda Man […]
Things have been quiet around here… too quiet. It’s time for another argument. (Warning: Scantily clad young lady under the cut!) I thought Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki was a nice, girl-centered action comic that was neither too angsty nor too preachy. I liked the fact that although it’s a ninja story, everyone respects Ibuki’s right […]
Summer vacation is still a ways away, but Matt Loux is getting us into the mood with a new volume of Salt Water Taffy, bringing us Jack and Benny’s latest seaside adventures. This volume is the first in a multi-part series, Caldera’s Revenge, in which the boys climb aboard a ghost whaling ship to go […]
It’s a mixed bag of titles this week with comics, graphic novels and manga! Dark Horse has the second issue of Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth, while Graphic Universe has the second volume of Chicagoland Detective Agency. Pokemon fans can relish not one, not two, but THREE legendary pokemon in one volume, as Viz Media […]
On Sunday, April 3rd, while attending WonderCon, I ran around to as many of my favorite kids comics creators as I could and asked them all the exact same questions. Keep in mind, conventions are crazy loud and crazy busy, so there is a lot of background noise. Let me know in the comments if […]
Donald Duck and his pals take a turn for the martial arts in Donald Duck and Friends: Feathers of Fury. The 128-page trade paperback was released in comics stores last week. Here’s the quick summary: Donald Duck’s lazy day with his nephews suddenly sends the unsuspecting duck on a surreal journey in the far east, […]
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