I’m Going to Thought Bubble!

I’m thrilled to be able to go to Thought Bubble this year! The Thought Bubble comic festival is held across Yorkshire, in the UK, with the main comic convention held November 15-16, 2025, at the Harrogate Convention Centre. Guests I’m particularly looking forward to seeing are Posy Simmonds (I ADORE her work), Rachael Smith, and Alex Norris, who does the “Oh No!” webcomic. There are plenty of other guests to check out too. I’m also thrilled to be catching up [...]
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The Deep Dark

Molly Knox Ostertag’s The Deep Dark is an amazing accomplishment. It’s almost 500 graphic novel pages that present a compelling exploration of feeling isolated, using the comic format to create a visual representation of the monsters inside us we are afraid of showing to anyone else. Magdalena lives with and takes care of her grandmother. Mags is messing around with a girl she went to school with, one who won’t acknowledge her because she has a boyfriend, and has a [...]
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The Novels of Antoine Laurain

I’ve been enjoying working my way through the novels of Antoine Laurain. He’s a French author who puts out works that I’d describe as romantic fantasy — but not in a “falling in love with a knight kind of way”. It’s about wonderful and life-changing things happening in France, often Paris, so it’s more like “finding your true self by visiting the Eiffel Tower”. Maybe it’s magical realism, but without any actual magic, just luck and whimsy and maybe a [...]
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Physics for Cats

The thing about reviewing a book of Tom Gauld cartoons is that I don’t know what to say beyond “there’s a new Tom Gauld collection, go get it.” Physics for Cats collects 160 science cartoons previously published in New Scientist. Gauld’s sense of humor is dry and smart. I love his insight and observations, as well as how creative he can be with the comic format. Examples include an experiment about being in a cartoon, the “conceptual phrase” of a [...]
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Small Press Expo 2025 Next Weekend!

The Small Press Expo, one of the best shows of the comic calendar, is next weekend! It’s held September 13-14, 2025, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland. I will be there, and I’m honored to be moderating the “Spotlight on Ngozi Ukazu” panel. It’ll be on Saturday from 1-2 PM. Ukazu (Check, Please!) is a Special Guest and debuting her new book, Flip, at the show, so we’ll talk about that. It’s only one [...]
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A Vampire in the Bathhouse

Luka is a hungover vampire who discovers Japanese bathhouses in the human realm. Sakura is a young man whose grandfather owns the bathhouse where Luka appears (impressively naked, with the exception of some mist or sometimes a sound effect). That’s the premise of Niko Izuki’s A Vampire in the Bathhouse. Luka can do magic, but not well, as his powers work differently away from the demon realm. Sakura needs help at the bathhouse, and because Luka took some of his [...]
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BabyLit Primers: Teach Kids Colors, Sounds, Counting, More With Classic Literature

Thanks to publisher Gibbs Smith, I got a chance to check out a few of their BabyLit Classic Lit line of books. These board books for babies use classic literature titles to teach colors, counting, and other topics. (Site readers will not be surprised to see the titles I chose.) Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles uses the moody setting to tell us that hounds howl and stairs creak, among other typically gothic items. A Christmas Carol is [...]
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Cat + Crazy Volume 1

I quite enjoyed Wataru Nadatani’s Cat + Gamer series, with its lessons about cat behavior, so I thought I’d try Cat + Crazy volume 1, by the same author. The title is accurate. Several of the characters in this manga are really out there. So much so that I don’t think I’ll be continuing with the series. They’re just too wacky. (This six-volume series came out before Cat + Gamer‘s eight volumes.) Yamada is a normal schoolgirl. She’s been wondering [...]
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