Poetry Comics provides budding poets numerous concepts to consider in an interesting visible format. Poetry Comics by Grant Snyder. Chronicle, 2024, 96 pages. Studying Stage: Center Grades, ages 8-10 Advisable for: ages 8-12 Poetry is available in virtually limitless kinds and varieties, however that is the primary time I’ve seen it in comic-book format. Does […]

And a few favourite graphic novels as effectively. It’s been plenty of years since I’ve put collectively an inventory of my favourite comics of the 12 months, one thing I used to do regularly again within the Weblog@ or Robotic 6 days. Not from an absence of need, however I spend a number of time […]

In January, Diamond Comedian Distributors filed for Chapter 11 chapter, throwing the comics store direct gross sales market into turmoil. Within the month since, new enterprise configurations have been introduced nearly day by day, all beneath the shadow of a ticking clock. In line with courtroom filings, Diamond is at present in search of consumers, […]

Evaluate This expanded version of Noir is the New Black options 18 tales, by practically 50 creators, and consists of some enjoyable behind the scenes further content material in the back of the quantity. The anthology defines noir as “a style of crime fiction that includes hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings.” That is […]

The historical past of the rise of graphic novels within the twenty first century has not likely been written about from a enterprise standpoint. John Shableski was Gross sales Supervisor at Diamond E book Distributors from 2007 to 2011 and has shared some recollections of these early days, together with a timeline for a number […]

Detroit within the late Nineteen Eighties was the proper setting for city dystopian fiction. Its postindustrial panorama, tough avenue life, and corrupt politics not solely impressed well-known classics like Robocop and The Crow, but additionally supplied the backdrop for the early work of one in every of comedian’s best artwork stylists, the late Tim Sale, […]

Alex Krokus’s Loud and Sensible follows Krokus, within the type of a raccoon, and his associates—depicted as worms, cats, and hammerhead sharks—hanging out and getting excessive within the massive metropolis. Krokus’s comics cycle between the absurd, the mundane, and the insightful whereas mastering the vocabulary of internet-age humor. His first print assortment, Loudest and Smartest, […]