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 [...]
Here’s another quick look at a Betty and Veronica comic for you. Betty and Veronica Double Digest #211 hits the comics shops tomorrow, but you get a first look today! Here’s the 411: It’s a lovely spring day, perfect for a walk! Or so Veronica thinks… Riverdale’s resident fashion maven attempts to trek to Betty’s, [...]
This month’s Adventure Time #14 wraps up two stories. Finn, Jake, and Princess Marcelline battle a virtual monster in the main arc, written by Ryan North and illustrated by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline, and Finn dodges his fate as the Princess of Rad Hats in a side story by Crogan’s Adventures creator Chris Schweizer. [...]
Geronimo Stilton meets Akira Kurasawa in Geronimo Stilton: The First Samurai, the 12th volume of the time-traveling mouse’s adventures in graphic novel form. In this story, the Pirate Cats travel back to 1603 Japan, and Geronimo and his troupe follow, impersonating a traveling band of actors, to find out what they are up to. Good [...]
Betty and Veronica fighting—and it’s not over Archie? That’s the lead story in Betty & Veronica Friends Double Digest #232, out in comics shops next Wednesday. The title tale is “Battle Royal,” and it’s scripted by Archie veteran George Gladir, penciled by Jeff Schulz, and inked by Al Milgrom. The digest includes a Sabrina story [...]
Let’s kick off our Tuesday with a preview of Dance Class vol. 4: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Paris. You don’t have to have read the earlier volumes to get the idea: It’s a lively slice-of-life story about three friends who are in dance class together. In this volume, they are training [...]
I’m on record as being a big fan of Philippe Coudray’s first Benjamin Bear book, so I’m delighted that Toon Books is publishing a second one next month. What I like about this book is that it’s clever without being overbearing; each page contains a puzzle or a verbal pun that is simple enough for [...]
Renee French is well known among adult fans of indy graphic novels for her surrealistic artwork in H Day and The Ticking, but she also writes and illustrates children’s books under her pen name, Rainy Dohaney. Next month, Toon Books will publish her graphic novel Barry’s Best Buddy, a silly story about two friends, and [...]
Here’s a short preview of World of Archie Double Digest #26, coming to a comics shop near you next Wednesday. This quick take features art by classic Archie artist Dan DeCarlo, who helped give Betty and Veronica their iconic look; you can see more of his work in the recent anthology The Art of Betty [...]
It’s short and sweet today. Here’s the scoop on the latest Jughead Double Digest: It’s time for the big rematch! The ice shuffleboard championship of the universe is on and Archie and Reggie intend to school their Central High rivals good! But when Reggie suffers a sprain that prevents him from playing, it’s up to [...]
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