ho says you can’t mix fiction with a how-to-guide? First Second’s Maker Comics agree with that sentiment. As their backcover tagline proudly proclaims, the series features “easy do-it-yourself instructions and page-turning plots” to teaching young readers some handy real-life skills.
SDCC 2017: Get Your Book Nerd On With These Awesome Book-Centric Panels
Last month we encouraged you guys to make San Diego Comic-Con into a mini-San Diego BookCon! Now that the SDCC 2017 schedule has been officially released we’ve gone through and found some pretty awesome book-centric panels that we think you should check out.* There are some very exciting conversations going on […]
Best of 2016: Graphic Novels We Fell In Love With This Year
We read a lot of comics and graphic novels this year. Whether we’re talking about on-going comic series, standalone graphic novels, or short mini-series, we definitely walked away with some new favorites this year. Our comics staff got together to talk about what our favorites were and we came up […]
Holiday Gift Guide 2016: Comics & Graphic Novels for the Readers
It can be tough to figure out which comics and graphic novels are popular from year to year if you’re not a reader yourself – and even if you are, there’s plenty out there that you might have missed! – so we’ve put together a list of gift suggestions for […]
‘Comics Confidential’ Goes Inside the Minds of Some of Your Favorite Graphic Novelists
Comics Confidential Editor: Leonard S. Marcus Release Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Candlewick Press Genre(s): Non-Fiction, Interviews Review Spoilers: N/A GoodReads | Amazon As you may have noticed, pop culture has entered into a sort of nerd renaissance. Comic books and graphic novels in particular have become increasingly popular in recent years. We’re not just talking […]
NYCC 2015 Highlights: Thursday
New York Comic Con 2015 kicks off on Thursday and there’s already too much to see and do! Check out our convention highlights for the day and where we might be hanging out – be sure to say hello if you see us! This will also probably be one of […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Literary Comics
In uniting the written word with fine art, comics have the potential to tell stories in ways impossible in all other media. Unfortunately, comics also play host to some of the worst, most nonsensical, basest stories and some of the blandest, most exploitative art available. It’s for this reason that pretty […]
Kickstarter Round-Up: Fairy Tale Games, Dreams, and Math!
Once Upon a Runner [youtube=http://youtu.be/IJVynoDFUdw] Once Upon a Runner features a female protagonist, Ella the young fire mage, as she runs through six different fairy tale worlds. Ella finds herself teleported to different recognizable fairy tale worlds where she must find her way back home by defeating the baddies she […]
Showing Off My #GeekSpace
Molly over at The Princess and the Geek issued a fun little challenge to geeks everywhere: show off your geek space. It can be a bookshelf, your bedroom, your office, your theater room, or even that cupboard under your staircase where you keep your unruly nephew. Whatever space you consider […]
Action, Adventure, and Angst Await in These Comic Collections
All right, so, I’ve fallen painfully far behind on my reviews as of late. Painfully far behind. So to make up for it I’m going to be doing a series of reviews over the course of the next week or so. There’s little rhyme or reason to which TPB reviews […]
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