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Tag: James Kochalka

June 30, 2022 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Banana Fox and The Gummy Monster Mess | Review

Something's fishy about Banana Fox's latest case, in which all the clues seem to be red herrings. He'll need even more help than usual to save the day in Banana Fox and The Gummy Monster Mess.

February 4, 2021 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Banana Fox & The Secret Sour Society | Review

Banana Fox and The Secret Sour Society finds cartoonist James Kochalka in fine form, as he introduces his latest hero, a semi-retired, smoothie-slurping super-sleuth and his flashlight-bearing kid sidekick, Flashlight.

April 3, 2018 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Review: ‘Mechaboys’

Mechaboys Writer/artist: James Kochalka Top Shelf Productions; $19.99 The unbelievably prolific cartoonist James Kochalka has a new original graphic novel, this one leaning more in the direction of his adult work, like SuperF*ckers and American Elf, than his kids comics, like SpongeBob Comics, Johnny Boo, and Dragon Puncher. The premise is a solid, grabby and […]

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Review: ‘Johnny Boo Goes Like This’

October 20, 2016 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Johnny Boo Goes Like This Writer/artist: James Kochalka Top Shelf Productions; $9.99 James Kochalka has a special facility for stream-of-conscious storytelling that mimics the sorts of stories small children might tell adults: This happened, and this happened, and then this happened, and so on. It’s a relatively rare quality, even among those who make their […]

Interview: James Kochalka on the Glorkian Warrior—and more

April 10, 2014 by Brigid Alverson

James Kochalka’s latest graphic novel, The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza, is deceptively simple and ridiculously funny. The story of a goofy spaceman on a crazy mission (accompanied by his talking backpack), it is longer than Kochalka’s Johnny Boo and Dragon Puncher graphic novels, which just allows more craziness to pile up as the story […]

Review: The Glorkian Warrior Delivers A Pizza

March 31, 2014 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza By James Kochalka First Second; $17.99 In writing about the heroic journey in his influential Hero With a Thousand Faces, pop comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell cited “the call to adventure” as the beginning of a mythic quest. James Kochalka’s Glorkian Warrior, a pink-skinned, three-eyed alien dude with a “super […]

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Review: Spongebob Annual-Size Super-Giant Swimtacular #1

June 18, 2013 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

SpongeBob Annual-Size Super-Giant Swimtacular #1 Written by Derek Drymon, Scott Roberts, James Kochalka and Chuck Dixon, and drawn by Drymon, Vince DePorter, Ramona Fradon,  Kochalka, Hilary Barta Jacob Chabot and others United Plankton Pictures, $4.99   Comic book publishers used to release annuals—bigger, costlier versions of their monthly comics—during the summer, when kids had more […]

Preview: Johnny Boo Does Something

April 2, 2013 by Brigid Alverson

James Kochalka has a field day in Johnny Boo Does Something, his fifth Johnny Boo book, sending his ghostly main character off on a Boring Adventure, a maybe-birthday celebration, and the bottom of an ice cream hole. Kochalka, who won an Eisner Award last year for another young-readers book, Dragon Puncher Island, is back and […]

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