Esther Keller looks at five graphic novels about navigating the highs and lows of middle school.
Review: ‘Pumpkinheads’
September 27, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The long-awaited collaboration from the super-team of Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks is finally here, and it’s a winning romantic comedy set among the autumnal kitsch of a commercial pumpkin patch.
Review: ‘Superman of Smallville’
September 20, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Everyone’s gotta start somewhere, and for Superman, that somewhere was Smallville. Art Baltazar and Franco reintroduces us to the Man of Steel when he was still just a boy in their new original graphic novel, Superman of Smallville.
Review: Science Comics: Cats, Nature and Nurture
September 17, 2019 by Leave a Comment
First Second’s line of Science Comics looks at the not-so-humble cat, from prehistory to the domestic breeds of today.
Review: ‘Operatic’
September 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Kyo Maclear and Byron Eggenschwiler reveal the music genre best-suited to provide the soundtrack to the lives of teenagers in their innovative and excellent Operatic
Review: ‘Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir’
September 10, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John MuirWriter: Julie BertagnaArtist: William GoldsmithYosemite Conservancy; $17.99 One of the most challenging aspects of writing a biography must be deciding what to leave out. It must be doubly so when the subject has had a particularly long, full and influential life, one replete with compelling, must-tell anecdotes and an […]
Review: ‘Dracula, Starring Mickey Mouse’ and ‘Frankenstein, Starring Donald Duck’
September 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Bruno Enna and Fabio Celoni cast Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in Dracula and Frankenstein, the strongest offerings yet from the Dark Horse-published Disney adaptations of works of classic literature.
Review: Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children
September 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
My reading has been a bit morbid this summer. I finally finished the adaptation of Anne Frank’s Diary. I’ve read 2 accounts of the Japanese Internment. I’m in middle of a story about Nazi Saboteurs and to round it all out, I picked up another graphic novel about the Holocaust.
Review: ‘Science Comics: Bats, Learning to Fly’
August 29, 2019 by Leave a Comment
First Second’s Science Comics line looks at the flying fuzzies that are anything but rodents; the Bat.
Review: Science Comics: Dogs, From Predator to Protector
August 22, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Dogs are known as man’s best friend. A dog named Rudy is here to explain how and why that is.
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