Here’s a look at the latest WordGirl comic from BOOM! Studios, in which WordGirl and Bob become involved in a fashion competition (a la Project Runway). Here’s the blurb: Duty calls for WordGirl, especially when her alter ego, Becky Botsford, sees her best friend it trouble! When Violet gets wrapped up in the evil machinations [...]
Roger Langridge’s comics series Snarked is a lighthearted take on an already lighthearted original, Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and The Carpenter.” In these comics, Langridge (the writer of BOOM!’s Muppet Show comics and the upcoming Popeye series from IDW) transforms them into a pair of con men, one wily, one… not so much. Snarked [...]
This week, BOOM! Studios debuted a new comic, Adventure Time, based on the Cartoon Network television series of the same name—but with all new stories. Written by Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics—N.B.: This is not a kids’ comic!) and illustrated by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb (Ice Age: Iced In), with a short extra story by [...]
New from BOOM! Studios’ KaBoom line this week is Ice Age: Iced In, a 24-page comic based on the 2002 movie Ice Age. The movie may be old, but the comic is fresh and lively, with a script by Caleb Monroe and art by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline, who will be illustrating KaBoom’s Adventure [...]
Smile fans, rejoice: Raina Telgemeier just unveiled the cover for her next project, Drama, and it looks like a winner. Telgemeier didn’t provide many details about the book, but noted that it would be on sale in September. And speaking of Telgemeier, she’ll be the Cartoonist in Residence at the Charles M. Schulz Museum this [...]
At Robot 6, Michael May talks to Ted Naifeh about his work on Courtney Crumrin, which relaunches in full color in April. BOOM! Studios is planning a series of comics based on the Nickelodeon series Adventure Time, with a stellar lineup of writer Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics) and artists Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline, who [...]
This isn’t really a preview—the third issue of Snarked, Roger Langridge’s charming Lewis Carroll-influenced comic, has been out for a few weeks—but it’s a slow week for comics, so it seemed like a good choice anyway. Enjoy, and happy New Year!
Following the success of their Peanuts graphic novel earlier this year, BOOM! Studios is launching a monthly Peanuts comic. Here’s a look at their preview issue, Peanuts #0; the full series launches in January.
New from BOOM! Studios this week, DuckTales, vol. 1: Rightful Owners is a wild ride in the Disney Afternoon tradition. Written by Warren Spector (creator of the Epic Mickey game) and illustrated by Leonel Castellani, it stands on its own but also shares continuity with Disney’s Darkwing Duck books (also published by BOOM!). The first [...]
Snarked! is the new comic from Roger Langridge, who wrote and illustrated many of Boom! Studios’ Muppet Show comics and was also the writer of Marvel’s Thor: The Mighty Avenger. When Disney took back the license on those, Langridge moved on to his own comic, Snarked!, a con-man comedy starring Lewis Carroll’s characters The Walrus [...]
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