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Preview: Sketch Monsters, book 1: Escape of the Scribbles

Brigid Alverson
SKETCH MONSTERS (9)

Sketch Monsters, out this week from Oni Press, is the story of an eight-year-old girl who doesn’t express her feelings in the usual way: Instead of showing them outwardly, she draws them as monsters in her sketchbook. That keeps them neatly bottled away—until the day they all escape and run amok, forcing her to round [...]

Links: Courtney Crumrin returns

Katherine Dacey

Good news for Ted Naifeh fans: not only will Oni Press publish a new installment of Courtney Crumrin Tales in May, Oni also has a second volume of Polly and the Pirates in the works. Naifeh dishes the dirt on both series with Sequential Tart’s Wolfen Moondaughter, and offers readers a tantalizing glimpse of a [...]

Review: Crogan’s March

Eva Volin

Crogan’s Vengeance, the first book in Chris Schweizer’s series, The Crogan Adventures, is about “Catfoot” Crogan’s time serving on a pirate ship.  It was a critical success, earning an Eisner nomination and a place on the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, among other honors.  The second book, Crogan’s March, about Peter Crogan, a soldier [...]