Good Comics for Kids

December 4, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Kiel Phegley of Comic Book Resources talks to Matt Loux about the second volume of Salt Water Taffy, which was released last month.

Also at CBR, Alex Dueben interviews Scott Christian Sava about The Dreamland Chronicles.

Johanna Draper Carlson has some news from Archie Comics at Comics Worth Reading: They're putting out
archives of older Archie comics on DVDs, and the Sabrina the Teenage Witch manga series is coming to a close.

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November 26, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

At Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Kai-Ming Cha talks to Erik Ko of the manga publisher Udon and Janna Morishima of Diamond Kids about Udon's new kids' manga line. Udon has set up a special website for their children's line, mangaforkids.com.

The anonymous blogger at lets fall asleep has put together a helpful list of comics for young women, with links to her own reviews and to review sites (including this one and my other site, MangaBlog) where the interested reader can find more.

Chynna Clugston dis...Read More

November 17, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Librarians, start your budgets: This morning's big news is that Viz is once again going to publish Naruto on an accelerated schedule, with 11 volumes due out between February and April 2009. The anime is going to be pushed even harder, with a subtitled version streaming for paid subscribers on Crunchyroll about an hour after airing in Japan; the same episodes will go up for free on several sites a week later. Viz released 12 volumes of Naruto in three months in the fall and winter of 2007, and the results were great—for Viz: Sales of individual volumes of Naruto stayed high, but the more marginal series from other publishers suffered.

Anime News Network ...Read More

November 15, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

I interviewed Barry Deutsch, creator of Hereville, for this week's Publishers Weekly Comics Week.

If you're not a regular visitor to the main SLJ site, you should drop in and check out this month's articles on nonfiction graphic novels for teens and middle schoolers.

Christopher Butcher posts on an unfortunate oversight. Recently, Mariko Tamaki, nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award, which is a pretty big deal in Canada, for her graphic novel Skim. The problem is...Read More

November 6, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

Newsarama's Zack Smith talks to Matthew and Jennifer Holm about Babymouse, which Robin Brenner found to be one of the top-circulating graphic novels for kids in her library system, although it's less well known among adult comics bloggers. One commenter complains that the book shows "little artistic skill," but others chime in to point out that it's actually more sophisticated than it looks at first glance.

Lisa Brown of Animal Inventory Blog interviews Nick Abadzis, creator of Laika.

Xaviar Xerxes ...Read More