DC’s new YA graphic novel 'The Oracle Code' by Marieke Nijkamp with art by Manuel Preitano updates the Batman legend of Barbara Gordon, daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon, who is paralyzed after a gunshot wound. Now she’s a wheelchair-bound teen hacker enrolled in a special... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
I draw, write, speak about, teach, facilitate and organise events about comics. After graduating with a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex, I attended art college and worked as a freelance illustrator. In 2008, I began to incorporate comics into my practice. I also... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-03-11 13:11:13 UTC ]
Scholastic has scooped a graphic novel edition of Roald Dahl classic The Witches with illustrations by Pénélope Bagieu. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-08 13:07:28 UTC ]
Hodder Children’s Books will publish second graphic novel by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano following the success of Illegal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 06:17:17 UTC ]
Do you or a young reader love the Newbery Award-winning graphic novel NEW KID or Raina Telgemeier's comics? Try these middle grade graphic novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-03 11:42:08 UTC ]
Graphic novel and genre fiction indie Rebellion has acquired Whitaker's Almanack from Bloomsbury for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 16:18:49 UTC ]
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s sequential-art program keeps doing what it’s been doing for more than a quarter century: teaching its students how to break into the graphic novel and comics market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
A friend of an inmate, Big Black, who helped others during the uprising, tells his story in “Stand at Attica.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-14 20:10:32 UTC ]
A friend of an inmate, Big Black, who helped others during the uprising, tells his story in “Stand at Attica.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-14 16:05:38 UTC ]
Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide by Kate CharlesworthMy favourite place to be is partway through a book that I have just realised is becoming an all-time favourite. This month, it happened with Kate Charlesworth’s graphic memoir, Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, a political history of gay... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-02-14 09:49:28 UTC ]
"Shadow of the Batgirl" author Sarah Kuhn wants young Asian American girls to see they can be the main character in superhero stories too. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-08 01:35:48 UTC ]
Jerry Craft’s story exploring ‘friendship, race, class and bullying in a fresh manner’ is the first graphic novel to win the long-running American children’s awardFor the first time, a graphic novel has won the Newbery Medal, the oldest and most prestigious children’s book award in the US. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-28 16:03:46 UTC ]
Jumpstart your 2020 TBR. with this round up of Spring 2020 YA graphic novel and comics releases! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-09 11:39:40 UTC ]
The enormous popularity of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man graphic novel series, trends in the changing U.S. comics and graphic novel retail landscape, and the growing popularity of manga and anime-influenced Japanese light novels, were among PW’s most-read stories about comics in 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
Boom! Studios announced plans to publish Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi/antiwar novel 'Slaughterhouse-Five' as a graphic novel. It will be adapted by the writer Ryan North, artist Albert Monteys, and colorist Ricard Zapala. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
HBO’s take on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic succeeds where all others have failed, but it is yet another DC project made without Moore’s approvalIt’s been profoundly depressing to watch Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen mutate into a cottage industry for DC Entertainment. The comic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-12-23 13:46:56 UTC ]
'They Called Us Enemy,' a graphic memoir by activist and longtime 'Star Trek' actor George Takei that recounts the story of his Japanese American family's internment during WWII, has claimed the top spot on PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Blacksad: Under the Skin has been available on Steam since mid-November, but don't worry about buying it if you'd rather play on a console -- you only have a few more days to wait. The noir detective game, based on a graphic novel series, will be out... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-12-07 09:55:00 UTC ]
Good Talk by Mira Jacob This is simply the best literary (in gorgeous graphic novel form) exploration of what it means to be an immigrant in the U.S. I’ve seen in years. Jacob talks about what being a parent in our current trash-fire of an age is like, what it means to have to explain … The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-12-05 16:00:41 UTC ]
Want to experience the bard(s) as they were meant to be enjoyed without being pelted in the head with rotten vegetables by the haters? We got you. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-04 11:39:41 UTC ]