It’s the end of the month, so it’s a short list of the regulars. Ape Entertainment completes its Shrek mini-series. Boom! Studios continues to release Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, even as Disney strips them down to just the Disney Afternoon properties. Bongo Comics has a new Bart Simpson Comics with Bart trying to be [...]
Souji returns home after a year at boarding school to find his brother missing, his sisters as mysterious and aloof as ever, and three teens from his school murdered. He has reason to believe that the three things are connected, but when a perky girl at his school–Yukako Sasai–starts bugging him to investigate the murders, [...]
I love going to cons. Really. Oh, sure, I complain about the crowds, the food, the smell, the crowds, and the crummy wifi access – and that’s when I’m well rested. But I also revel in the People. Rejoice in the Art. Glory in the Nerdly Conversation about Story. And make grabby hands at all the pretty BOOKS. To make [...]
I began reading mystery novels in the second grade, not long after my grandmother bought me my first Nancy Drew books. Much as I enjoyed The Secret of the Old Clock and The Bungalow Mystery, however, I was less keen on the character of Nancy herself. I envied Nancy’s smart roadster and the physical freedom [...]
Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in Archie Comics, is getting his own mini-series this spring, and creator Dan Parent, talks about Kevin and his pals with Laura Hudson of Comics Alliance. Yen Press has announced the artist for its manga-style adaptations of Gail Carriger’s Soulless novels: rem, who illustrated Tokyopop’s manga adaptations of [...]
As the end of the month draws near (already?!?!), the list starts to dwindle to the regulars. Archie Comics releases the trade Man From Riverdale, collecting all the stories in one convenient place. Boom! Studios has a new trade of original Darkwing Duck comics as well. It’s sad to hear that they may be loosing [...]
In the last six months, VIZ Media and Yen Press have both launched iPad apps to great fanfare, but they aren’t the only manga publishers in the digital comics game. Seven Seas, home to such properties as Dance in the Vampire Bund, Gunslinger Girl, and Toradora!, recently began offering Kindle editions of their global manga. [...]
Due to a small–ahem–incident in the library (which was Babymouse’s fault, but she feels really bad about it), all the kids at Babymouse’s school need to sell cupcakes to earn money for new library books. There’s even a prize for the one who sells the most cupcakes. Babymouse LOVES cupcakes almost as much as she [...]
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