Buying Comics For Girls: A Gift Guide
I’m often asked by parents what are good titles to buy their daughters in order to start them off with a lifelong love of comic books. One really important thing to remember before you buy comics for...
View ArticleViz To Publish Comics Based On Studio Ghibli's Arrietty
At the Viz panel at FanimeCon this weekend, Marketing Director Candice Uyloan announced that Viz will publish two "film comics" based on the new Studio Ghibli movie Arrietty the Borrower (Karigurashi...
View ArticleMarvel Comics Goes Back To Oz With 'Dorothy And The Wizard of Oz'
Marvel Comics announced that they're set to go back over the rainbow in September for Dorothy & The Wizard Of Oz. Eric Shanower and Skottie Young return for the 4th Oz book, featuring Dorothy and...
View ArticleTalking Lunch: Mameshiba Invades North America
A boy drops a pea from his fork. The pea suddenly develops a face and floppy ears and announces "In French, dandelions are called pissenlit, which means 'urinate in bed.'" Welcome to the wacky world...
View ArticleManga Review: Mameshiba on the Loose!
Mameshiba on the Loose! is a fun adventure comic that is goofy enough for kids but smart enough to make adults smile as well. Mameshiba are cute little rounded creatures with the facial features of...
View ArticleOni's "Power Lunch" Is A "Young Superman Book" With A Twist
"...this is clearly a young Superman book with a twist." Do you like Superman? Wish he was in high school, easily readable by all ages, and had a good message about watching what you eat? The welcome...
View Article10 (or so) Spooky Books To Give Away On All Hallow's Read
Last year, author and general all around cool dude Neil Gaiman made a modest proposal (that had nothing to do with eating human beings): how about we give away books on Halloween instead of – or even...
View ArticleKleefeld On Webcomics #35: Think Of The Children
By Sean Kleefeld Thanks in no small part to the enormous success of the Batman television show in the 1960s, media articles about comics have a penchant for including Pow! or Zap! in them as a...
View Article"Peanuts" From kaboom! Has A Little Something For Everybody (review)
The new ongoing comic book series Peanuts, from Boom! Studios’ kaboom! children’s line, has two rather Herculean tasks on its hands. First, of course, is following in the footsteps of a master...
View ArticleWant To Read A Children's Book By Garth Ennis? Visit Kickstarter!
By Danica Davidson The crowd-funding website Kickstarter may have only started up a few years ago, but it keeps on being in the news as graphic novelists use it to cover the printing cost of their...
View ArticleFanExpo Canada: Kids Comics Go North!
Sunday was the last day of FanExpo Canada, which meant one thing: Kids Day! Or at least, ever so slightly more kids content than usual, including a panel with some experts on making comics for a...
View ArticleNYCC Panel Recap: "The World Of Graphic Novels"
from "Johnny Hiro" by Fred Chao By Patrick A. Reed Saturday evening, I lucked into attending one of the more interesting and off-beat panels of the entire New York Comic Con weekend. The World Of...
View ArticleExclusive: 'Garfield' Gets A Stalker In This KaBOOM! Preview For Issue 7
Why is that big orange cat so cool? One so-so feline is going to follow his every move to find out -- all in "Garfield" #7, hitting stores next week on Nov. 7th from KaBOOM! Check out the preview...
View ArticleDenver Comic Con 2013: How Comic Book Classroom Is Using 'My Little Pony' To...
Image source: Denver Comic Con It may not have taken comics to teach me to read (as a latchkey kid, sometimes Piers Anthony and Robert Heinlein were my best friends after school), but when I found...
View ArticleThe Creators Of First Second's 'Primates' Discuss Their Book [INTERVIEW]
Last week, First Second Books released "Primates", an all-ages historical graphic novel that tells the story of famed primatologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas – and to celebrate...
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