What Did You Eat Yesterday? Volume 19

With this latest installment, What Did You Eat Yesterday? volume 19, the series by Fumi Yoshinaga remains my favorite manga. One of the strong reasons is that it’s so rare to see comic characters in late middle age going through challenges of daily life. Each chapter stands alone, and the focus of each...

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Wacom Intuos: A Trial Run

Thanks to the generosity of a publicity person, I had the pleasure of trying out a small Wacom Intuous tablet recently. Of course I knew that the Wacom was the preferred device for drawing digital art, but I’m not a creator that way, so I was curious what else it could be used for. Setup took some time,...

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The One True Me and You

The One True Me and You by Remi K. England is a queer geeky rom-com that stars my people. I loved it. Kaylee is attending a convention dedicated to the latest entertainment incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. She writes popular Johnlock fic about the characters, and it’s the first time she’s meeting the...

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There’s a Murder Afoot

Earlier this year I had the chance to meet the author Vicki Delany in Toronto. (The Bootmakers of Toronto, the local Sherlock Holmes society, were celebrating their 50th anniversary by having an event with guests and presentations.) So I thought I’d brush up on her Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery series....

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Three Little Wishes

Kelly is a really good lawyer because she is very involved in the details. That also means she has one friend and no romantic prospects, because that’s how this kind of character works in media. When her friend encourages her to do something “rash and stupid,” she buys an abandoned storage unit, where...

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Sunburn

I am living in the future we only dreamed of, back in the 90s when we were hoping for stories that weren’t superhero or other pulp genres, when we envisioned comics that were more than 32 pages with staples, when we talked about comics for people other than young white men. Andi Watson (writer, here)...

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Moriarty: A Clockwork Empire #2 Covers

I just brought you the covers for the launch of a new Sherlockian comic miniseries next year, and now the covers for issue #2 have been revealed! Moriarty: A Clockwork Empire #2 is, as with the previous issue, written by Fred Duval & Jean-Pierre Pécau and illustrated by Stevan Subric. The second...

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Moriarty: A Clockwork Empire Coming in February – Cover Preview

Titan Comics will be publishing Moriarty: A Clockwork Empire, a four-issue miniseries, beginning in February 2023. As written by Fred Duval & Jean-Pierre Pécau and illustrated by Stevan Subric, the series promises a steampunk take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as well as...

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Unicorn Selfies: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

I feel like a broken record when I talk about Phoebe and Her Unicorn, because I love every book, and it always amazes me that such a long-running comic strip stays so fresh and insightful. That’s a real testament to Dana Simpson’s skills. That’s a wonderful thing, particularly at this time of year....

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Gideon Gunn, the Pagan Priest

Gideon Gunn, the Pagan Priest is ridiculous adventure with plenty of nostalgic appeal to those who enjoy classic British comics or Hammer horror. The concept’s in the title. Created by writer Daniel Whiston and artist Andrew Richmond, Gunn fights monsters in 18th century Bath with whatever makes sense,...

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Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan

A dozen years ago, Abrams published Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile, a choose your own path comic about a boy in a mad scientist’s lab. I’d seen Shiga’s comics in their self-published forms, but this was bringing it to bookstores and wider distribution. Now, released earlier this year, there’s finally another...

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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (Folio Society Edition)

The Folio Society is a London publisher of upscale books that’s celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. (I found out about them because they put out a slipcased set of very attractive hardcovers for Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries.) They aim to release beautiful collector’s editions...

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Marvel Super Heroes: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book

Know a Marvel fan? Want something unusual to impress them? Marvel Super Heroes: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book is exactly what you need. There are six spreads, one each for Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and cosmic characters, and two for the Avengers. They are full of information boxes and “interactive...

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Let’s Make History! Create Your Own Comics

Instead of a new installment in the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, this year we got a related book, one that encourages kids to make their own comics through a wide variety of art and storytelling activities introduced by the continuing characters of that series. Let’s Make History! Create Your...

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Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse

The concept behind Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse isn’t a bad one: Take two cartoon team franchises and have them meet. Bonus points for using a currently hot buzzword, albeit one Marvel has had much more success with. (One’s cynical side supposes that Warner Bros....

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