Father’s Day is just around the corner, so what better way for kids to spend it with Dad than to share some comics with him! Dad can enjoy the antics of fellow Donut-loving Dad Homer in the latest issue of Simpson Comics from Bongo Comics. Or he can relive some childhood memories with Mickey Mouse [...]
Ivy wants more. She hates her high school, her mother, her stupid friends. She wants more than her boring, annoying life. When she and her mother finally come to a breaking point over Ivy’s determination to go to art college rather than business school, she runs away with Josh, another artist who is the only [...]
One of the great things about living near Charlotte, NC is Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find. It’s a terrific comic book shop—great selection, helpful staff, girl-friendly. Though I live too far from Heroes to go there on a regular basis, I do get to enjoy their work at least twice a year. Once is during [...]
My best friend and I are both comic book fans and for the past few years we’ve gone together to Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC—buying too many books, reminiscing over action figures, admiring the artwork, and just having a terrific time. This year we decided that his daughter Emily, who is just finishing up first [...]
Archie Babies are coming to town—and we have an exclusive first look here at Good Comics for Kids! Archie Babies is notable because it is the first-ever original graphic novel from Archie Comics —they publish a lot of trade paperbacks these days, but up till now they were all published in comic-book form first. It’s [...]
Ready to gobble up some good comics and manga for kids? There’s plenty this week! Viz continues their releases from the Pokemon franchise including the new Platinum series. Zenescope, a publisher very new to the all ages section has a book about one of kids’ favorite topic, Dinosaurs! If you prefer your adventures under the [...]
Campfire is a relatively new graphic novel publisher based in India. The folks there started out focusing on retellings of classic works of literature, but in the last year they’ve begun broadening their horizons, expanding into original works, retellings of mythological tales, and biographies of famous people from around the world. Two of the biographies [...]
Welcome once again to another edition of The Reading Pile, in which we share our first impressions of the comics we are reading this week. Take it away, bloggers! Kate Dacey: I’m a big fan of Chris Mautner, so when he recommends a book, I go out of my way to track down a copy. [...]
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