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SDCC 2026 – Levine Querido Presents: Native American Author Julie Fiveash

Levine Querido is delighted to spotlight author Julie Fiveash and their new debut graphic novel The Froggy Library at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.  The Froggy Library is a story about grief, Native American heritage, and community archives and librarianship. It tells the story of one important summer in Anura’s life — as they learn about independence and

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Sthrngrlsrck July 23, 2026 No Comments

Review: Doctor Strange – Strange Origin

Are you ready for the Doctor Strange movie in November? Are you? ‘CAUSE I SURE AM.  While we wait, I decided to check out the Doctor Strange: Strange Origin graphic novel that Marvel released this month. Although when you get right down to it, 99% of this is a re-release since it’s a repackaging of Greg Pak and Emma Rios’s Doctor

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Kathryn Adams September 20, 2016 No Comments

Review: How to Talk to Girls At Parties

Enn: “I don’t know what to say to girls.” Vic: “They’re just girls. They don’t come from another planet.” Awkward teenager Enn was already unhappy about being dragged to the local party by his confident friend Vic. He was even more uncomfortable when it turned out to be the wrong party. But Vic decided they were

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Kathryn Adams August 30, 2016 1 Comment

SDCC 2016 – An Interview with Dave McKean

At this year’s Comic-Con I had the chance to sit down with artist and writer Dave McKean to talk about his graphic novel Black Dog: the Dreams of Paul Nash. Once I stopped hyperventilating I actually enjoyed the talk. (This is the guy who created every single cover in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, not to

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llyzabeth July 28, 2016 No Comments

Review: Doctor Strange – The Way of the Weird

Elizabeth over at Binary System Podcast has been trying to get me to read the latest Doctor Strange series almost since it first came out last October. I finally ran out of excuses when I stumbled over the gorgeous hardback graphic novel Doctor Strange – The Way of the Weird, collecting the first five issues of the

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Kathryn Adams June 28, 2016 1 Comment
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Review – Love: The Lion

The third in a series of “wildlife graphic novels” hits stores this June, click the jump for the book trailer and a review of the often perplexing, but still pretty gorgeous, Love: The Lion.

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llyzabeth May 13, 2016 No Comments

Review: The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay

Two hundred years ago, humans drove the dragons from the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew—with only a healer’s daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its way. See below for a review of Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay’s graphic novel The Last Dragon.

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llyzabeth April 29, 2016 No Comments

Review: Lucifer

I was going to rant for a bit about all the ways that the Lucifer TV series is different from the source material (originally from Neil Gaiman, and then spun off very capably by Mike Carey), but I’ve decided that’s not a very productive discussion. There’s no point to making a carbon copy of the original stories

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Kathryn Adams March 8, 2016 No Comments