Giant Days

John Allison, best known as the webcartoonist of Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery (also available in a series of books from Oni Press), is now writing Giant Days, a print comic from Boom! Box. (You can find out more about his various projects at his website.) Issue #15 is out this Wednesday, June 1,...

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Murder at the Spa

Murder at the Spa by Stefanie Matteson is the first of eight mysteries starring Charlotte Graham, an older actress. It was originally published in 1990 and is now out of print but available digitally through Open Road Media, along with the other seven books in the series. Charlotte is enlisted by an...

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Bruce Lee: The Dragon Rises #1

When I first heard of Bruce Lee: The Dragon Rises, I thought it wasn’t for me. I have no interest in kung fu movies or nostalgia for same. But they’re doing something with this series that so far, I like (and thanks to the Free Comic Book Day sampler for the chance to try it). That approach is waking...

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Gotham Season 2 Announced for Home Video

Gotham: The Complete Second Season will be available on DVD ($49.99 suggested retail price) and Blu-ray ($54.97) on August 16. The season consists of 22 episodes, plus the following extras: Gotham: 2015 Comic-Con Panel: Warner Bros. Television Presents a Night of DC Entertainment at Comic-Con 2015 Gotham...

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All the Feels: All Is Fair in Love and Fandom

Inspired by @CoulsonLives, Danika Stone has written a young adult romance about a fan who refuses to accept the movie death of her favorite character. In All the Feels, Liv was eager to see the latest film installment of her beloved Starveil, only to be crushed when it ended with the death of Spartan,...

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ComiXology Launches Unlimited Reading Service for Monthly Fee

It’s what fans want — sort of. ComiXology has launched ComiXology Unlimited, an all-you-can-read browsing service. It’s $5.99 a month; you get a 30-day free trial; and it includes downloads for offline reading. What it doesn’t include is DC or Marvel titles. Publishers participating include: Image Comics...

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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie

Although the most widely read English author in the world during her lifetime (and according to Doctor Who, “the most popular writer of all time”), it has been 40 years since Agatha Christie passed away, so her life and the stunning extent of her career may no longer be as well known to today’s mystery...

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The Devil Is a Part-Timer!

The Devil Is a Part-Timer! has a fun concept with a tiny bit of social commentary behind it. It’s a multi-platform franchise, beginning as a light novel series by Satoshi Wagahara, translated and available from Yen On, with four volumes out so far. There was a great war of supernatural forces. The demon...

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A Study in Charlotte

There have been female takes on Sherlock Holmes before, but A Study in Charlotte beautifully blends the traditional detective with a teen romance and a young adult boarding school novel. James “Jamie” Watson is a new student at the Sherringford boarding school in Connecticut. Although American by birth,...

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Good Books to Order for July 2016

The latest Diamond Previews catalog lists a lot of books worth checking out. Here are a few of them, along with others I had something to say about. You can order them now through your local comic shop for delivery in July or later. (The ones with May or June dates are relists of items that have already...

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Einstein, Freud, and Marx: Nobrow Graphic Biographies

Corinne Maier writes and Anne Simon illustrates these three graphic biographies of notable figures whose thinking changed the world. They’re handsome European-style hardcovers, allowing for pages packed with detail, putting readers in the day-to-day moments as well as capturing the major discoveries....

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Another Doctor Who Title Joins the Titan Comics Lineup

Joining their titles for the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Eighth, and Fourth Doctors, Titan Comics has announced that they will launch a five-issue miniseries for Doctor Who: The Third Doctor on August 31. Paul Cornell writes and Christopher Jones illustrates “The Heralds Of Destruction”, with the...

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Girl in Dior

With most graphic novels, I’m driven by the story (or in the case of non-fiction titles, the information). I love reading comics as a blend of words and pictures, using both sides of my brain at once, and too many problems with one or the other will interfere with that enjoyment, but if I have to pick...

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Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking

Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking is a fascinating read, full of disturbing information about the rise of the fast fashion industry and how the apparel trade is related to human trafficking and the jobs women have as options worldwide, especially those living in poverty. Anne Elizabeth Moore...

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Thoreau: A Sublime Life

This gorgeous hardcover graphic biography tells the life of a classic philosopher with an eye to modern concerns and context. Thoreau: A Sublime Life is written by Maximilien Le Roy with art by A. Dan. Le Roy’s Foreword establishes his perspective, to show the various aspects of Henry David Thoreau’s...

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The Beauty #7

Now that the first storyline of The Beauty has concluded, creators Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley have decided to tell some single-issue stories “to explore the wider world” of their premise. That’s a great idea, since the strongest part of this series is the concept, of a world where a sexually transmitted...

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Goldie Vance Promoted to Ongoing Series

Like Lumberjanes and Giant Days before it, the Boom! Box miniseries Goldie Vance has been promoted to an ongoing series. Written by Hope Larson and drawn by Brittney Williams, the story puts a fresh-yet-retro take on the girl detective, with her having light adventures solving mysteries in a 1960s Florida...

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Marvel Continues Disney Tsum Tsum Push With Variant Covers in August

Tying into the August release of Marvel Tsum Tsum #1, the company has announced 20 variant covers will be released that same month, called Marvel Tsum Tsum Takeover Variants. There is a whole lot of cuteness in the images below. (Click to enlarge.) My favorites are an adorable Groot with Rocket Raccoon...

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DC Puts New Logo on Rebirth Titles

DC last redesigned its logo four years ago in conjunction with greater expansion into home entertainment products and TV and film media. That “peel” didn’t much impress anyone, even with its different colors and textures. It was a bit drastic of a change, frankly, changing shape from DC’s traditional...

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Harley Quinn Movie Possibility Brings Another Female Lead

The Hollywood Reporter yesterday broke the news that “months ahead of the opening of Suicide Squad, Warner Bros. is already contemplating a spinoff for the DC Entertainment anti-heroine, Harley Quinn.” Margot Robbie plays the crazy character, and she will produce the proposed film as well. She discovered...

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Anne Happy: Unhappy Go Lucky! Volume 1

For cute and silly manga fun, Anne Happy: Unhappy Go Lucky! by Cotoji is a pretty good choice. It’s got a weird yet approachable premise: unlucky kids are all put in one high school class together. Hibari, with long dark hair, is our identifiable protagonist. She’s bemoaning her bad luck on her way...

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Today’s Surprise Gift

KC got me a surprise present today to cheer me up. I had no idea they made a Funko Pop! Wonder Woman Invisible Jet! I’m kind of scared to get too far into the Pop! figures, because they make them for EVERYthing. I only had two previously, both geek girls with glasses. I’m thinking, though, I need to...

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Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel Adaptations to Continue

Raina Telgemeier, the woman who has revolutionized the graphic novel market by putting out approachable graphic memoirs that have been best-sellers for years, first came to public notice by adapting and drawing comic adaptations of four early Baby-Sitters Club books. The first one came out in 2006,...

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Marvel Tsum Tsum Comic Due in August

Do you know the tsum tsums? They were originally a Japanese invention, a simplification of various Disney characters into fist-sized stuffed bean shapes (although now they have medium and large-sized ones, which start resembling pillows). Disney has spun these out into Star Wars and Marvel lines in...

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What a Migraine Feels Like, in Comic Form

I’m not familiar with the work of Summer Pierre, but her comic strip about what a migraine feels like is a great explanation of suffering with the condition. from Comics Worth Reading http://ift.tt/1ZRlwUH Sourced by "The typist writer". The place where writers, bloggers, and publicists come to expand...

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