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Posted by Lori Henderson on February 9, 2010
Tales of love found and lost have been told for centuries in every culture around the world. Shakespeare doesn't have a monopoly on tragic love stories as this tale from the Aztecs shows. Popocatepeltl and Iztaccihuatl love each other very much. But an overprotective father, who is also Emperor, and a jealous rival plot to keep the happy lovers apart. Will Popo be able to keep his promise to his beloved Izta to watch over her forever?The Smoking Mountain: The Story of Popocatepeltl and Iztaccihuatl By Dan Jolley and David Witt Age Rating: 9-12 Graphic Universe, 2009, 978-1-58013-826-0 48 pgs, $8.95 ...Read More 
Posted by Brigid Alverson on February 8, 2010
Amanda Tarbet has a great essay at Sequential Tart looking at recent children's comics that celebrate friendship. And Suzette Chan looks at the appeal of monsters in kids' graphic novels, Jellaby and Bayou in particular.Yen Press announced a bevy of new licenses this week, including a children's book by French author Emile Bravo, Goldilocks and the Seven Squat Bears, and two books of goofy four-panel manga with teen appeal, one based on the popular anime and manga The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and the other on the anime K-On!, about four girls who form their own music club. In the more immediate future, Out from the Comics Shop lists ...Read More Industries: Graphic Novels
Posted by Lori Henderson on February 5, 2010
Superheroes are out in force on this week's list. Boom! Studios debuts Disneys Hero Squad, a title that was a part of Mickey and Friends, but has gained its own ongoing series. DC brings out a new trade of Tiny Titans, their Teen Titans little kid friendly title. And there's a new Amelia Rules, where she and her friends embrace their inner superheroes. But if superheroes aren't your thing, you can go old school with the newest Little Lulu collection from Dark Horse, or go with this week's picks.ANTARCTIC PRESS Prince Of Heroes Chapter 2 TP, $19.95 ARCHIE COMICS Archie Digest #261, $2.69 Betty #184, $2.50 Sonic The Hedgehog #209, $2.50 BOOM! STUDIOS Disneys Hero Squad...Read More 
Posted by Katherine Dacey on February 4, 2010
Ginger has a problem: her mother, Mrs. Fox, wants the family to share a burrow with Mr. Badger. Worse still, Mr. Badger has two bratty, bossy boys who don't know how to play proper fox games and who insist on doing things their way. Unable to discourage their parents from merging households, Ginger, Grub, and Bristle put aside their differences and hatch up a scheme to show their folks that "badgers and foxes are not made to live together."Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox, No. 1: The Meeting Story by Brigitte Luciani, Art by Eve Tharlett, Translation by Carol Klio Burrell Ages 5-9 Graphic Universe, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-7613-5625-7 32 pp., $25.00 ...Read More Industries: Graphic Novels 
Posted by Esther Keller on February 4, 2010
The 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens (GGNT) list was posted in middle of January. After spending 2 years on the committee - I know how much effort and work goes into reading, discussing, and selecting the titles. Even so, it's still a lot of fun to dissect the "best of" lists when they're posted. So I turned to my GC4K friends and asked:So... Which of the titles on your list is your favorite? Which title makes you go, huh? And which title do you wish you saw on this list? Brigid: The list covers an amazingly wide age range. I would think Animal Academy and The Sec...Read More Industries: Graphic Novels 
Posted by Snow Wildsmith on February 3, 2010
All his life Takashi Natsume has been able to see things that others cannot. Since his parents died after he was born, Takashi has spent his life being shipped from relative to relative, with all of them too scared of him to keep him for long. Now that he is in high school, he has finally found a home and, with the discovery of a mysterious book that belonged to his grandmother Reiko Natsume, he may be on his way to finding some answers to his mysterious ability. Like Takashi, Reiko had the ability to see yokai--spirits and demons--but she used that ability to bully those spirits, locking their names away in her book. Now Takashi must return those names to their rightful owners...dangerous beings who will do anything to get back their names. Industries: Graphic Novels
Posted by Brigid Alverson on February 3, 2010
John Hogan talks to Copper author Kazu Kibuishi and Zeus creator George O'Connor at Graphic Novel Reporter. Also: Jenny Christopher, sales director for Boom! Studios, talks about how she grew to love comics, and our own Robin Brenner joins a librarians' roundtable on how the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list is made.CBR has a 26-page preview of Crogan's March, as well as ...Read More Industries: Graphic Novels
Posted by Lori Henderson on February 1, 2010
Below is an alphabetical list of all the picks from the All Ages Comics and Manga list from the last year. You'll find over 100 titles that were highlighted in comics, graphic novels and manga from the weekly release list. The titles cover a wide range of genres and stay with the the age range of 6-12 years of age. Be sure to check the GC4K 2009 Review Index to see if any of the titles highlighted here were also reviewed.A-E Animal Academy: Hakobune Hakusho vol 1 (Tokyopop) Archie Comics #600 (Archie Comics) ...Read More
Posted by Esther Keller on January 31, 2010
This January, First Second released the first in a 12 part series by George O’Connor. The series, The Olympians, comes at the heels of the Percy Jackson series, which has caused middle-schoolers all over the country to rediscover Greek Mythology. I had the opportunity to interview George O’Connor to discuss the series and the release of the first volume: Zeus: King of the Gods.Esther: Congratulations, on your new release. I’m not exactly a fan of Greek Mythology, so I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the book as much as I did. As one of my colleagues noted, the art work is outstanding and the text is gripping. How did this project come about? ...Read More Industries: Graphic Novels
Posted by Brigid Alverson on January 30, 2010
The Disney Newsletter has a big story on Boom! Studios, which has taken over production of the Disney comics. Says Boom! CEO Ross Richie:My publishing philosophy is all about great characters. Stories are first propelled by character, then conflict ... resolving that conflict won't provide a good story if the characters are derivative and uninteresting. Without amazing characters, you're done. Interesting interview, and it sounds like he gets it. Meanwhile, at the Disney Comics Worldwide blog, Arthur interviews Italian Disney artist Andrea Castellan, who goes by the pen name "Casty." At Comic Book Resources, Shaun Manning talks to ...Read More Industries: Graphic Novels
Posted by Lori Henderson on January 29, 2010
It's a good week for trades on the new releases list. The next volume of the Sonic The Hedgehog Archives comes out from Archie Comics. Boom! Studios has 2 from from it's line of Disney/Pixar titles, Cars and Incredibles. From Marvel comes a trade from it's soon-to-be-ending Marvel Adventure Super Heroes comic series. Check out the picks for more on that. And be sure to pick up the next volume of Animal Academy from Tokyopop. The 10-year-old in your life will thank you for it! ARCHIE COMICS Archie #605, $2.50 ^^AA Pick^^ Betty & Veronica Digest #201, $2.69 Jugheads Double Digest #157, $3.99 Sonic The Hedgehog Archives Volume 12 TP, $7.95 BONGO COMICS Futu...Read More
Posted by Katherine Dacey on January 28, 2010
I remember the educational comics from my childhood: they were painfully square vehicles for addressing topics such as "staying safe around power lines" or "saying no to peer pressure." The art was subpar; the scripts were tin-eared; and the paperstock was even worse. Teachers usually distributed them in conjunction with a earnest safety lecture, and students quickly relegated them to the trash. (It was the 1970s. We were just getting hip to recycling.) As Peter Gutierrez's recent guest article demonstrates, however, today's educational comics have earned a legitimate place in the classroom by tackling a variety of historic, scientific, and social issues that, when presented in other media, can seem dry or abstract. The Secret Adventures of Hamster Sam: Attack of the Evil Bo...Read More
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