Squirrel Girl and Friends Coming to TV

Freeform (formerly ABC Family) is planning a Cloak and Dagger TV show, due late next year, as a teen romance drama. Now, they’ve ordered their second Marvel-inspired series. New Warriors is planned as a half-hour comedy, with ten episodes in the first season, also due 2018. It’ll be about six young people learning to be heroes, termed “about-to-be Avengers”, and the only character mentioned so far is Squirrel Girl, a fan favorite. The show runner will be Kevin Biegel, who’s [...]
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The Next Nathan Hale Tackles World War II

I really love the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series of true-history graphic novels. I learn a lot about key historical moments, presented with plenty of humor. Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War spy (whose story is book #1), is the narrator, but Nathan Hale (a different one) is also the artist. Later this year comes the newest installment, the seventh. Raid of No Return tells “A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid”. This isn’t the first war to make [...]
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Learn Graph Coloring Theory and Help Marvel Superteams

This is an instructional video on graph coloring, which you may better know as the four-color map problem. (That says that you can color any map with four colors without areas of the same color touching.) It’s the technique of figuring out how many different colors you need to cover a graph (a collection of dots and lines) without any of the dots with the same color being connected. After an explanation of how Sudoku is a transformation of 9-coloring [...]
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Faith Erin Hicks’ Nameless City Gets a Cartoon

The Nameless City is the first of three books by Faith Erin Hicks set in a diverse fantasy world. The second, The Stone Heart, is out this week. Now comes news from EW.com that Frederator Studios will be animating the trilogy. They’re creating a 12-episode cartoon miniseries with each book getting four episodes, and the first set will be out in fall 2018. I’m not surprised to see this choice for an adaptation — Hicks’ animation background can be seen [...]
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Roller Girl

One side effect of Raina Telgemeier’s dominance of the graphic novel market for young people is the need to be able to answer the question, “What do I read next?” I recommend Svetlana Chmakova’s Awkward, but Victoria Jamieson’s Roller Girl is also quite popular with that audience. Astrid is best friends with Nicole. They go together to a roller derby match, and Astrid loves it, but Nicole isn’t so sure. They’re growing apart, anyway, in other ways, with Nicole more [...]
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The Guild Comics Collected in Hardcover

Remember The Guild? Felicia Day put together six seasons of web comedy shorts from 2007-2013 about a group of online gamers and their personality quirks. Dark Horse released several sets of comics featuring the show characters. First, there was a prequel miniseries explaining how and why Cyd (played by Day) found the online game world, then a set of five one-shots focused on individual characters. Now, there’s a Library Edition oversized hardcover, labeled Volume 1, that collects the above comics [...]
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MoCCA Fest 2017: Some Thoughts and Pictures

MoCCA Fest 2017 was, as expected, a success, at least based on the crowds thronging the first of its two days. Typical of today’s comic arts festivals (as opposed to comic book conventions, which are more spectacle), there was a wide diversity of exhibitors — including publishers Top Shelf/IDW, Fantagraphics, Nobrow, NBM, First Second, Pantheon, and Abrams/SelfMadeHero — and attendees. Here are just a few of the moments that struck me. Cliff Chiang, here signing at the CBLDF table, was [...]
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Flying Witch Volume 1

Don’t be misled by comparisons to Sabrina the Teenage Witch — Flying Witch by Chihiro Ishizuka is more in the vein of Yotsuba&!, a comfortable exploration of everyday domestic life, with a country flavor and the occasional weirdness. Makoto, accompanied by her cat Chito, has come to stay with her cousins Kei, a boy about her age, and Chinatsu, a younger girl. (The mother shows up later but isn’t particularly involved.) Makoto’s a witch — although that’s handled in odd [...]
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