Author: Gene Ambaum

There’s No Time Like The Present by Paul B. Rainey. Drawn & Quarterly, 2025. 336pp. Rainey’s follow-up to one of my favorite graphic novels of 2023, Why Don’t You Love Me?, also features screwed-up characters, alternate realities, and a lot […]
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There’s No Time Like The Present by Paul B. Rainey. Drawn & Quarterly, 2025. 336pp. Rainey’s follow-up to one of my favorite graphic novels of 2023, Why Don’t You Love Me?, also features screwed-up characters, alternate realities, and a lot […]
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Mixed Feelings by Liana Finck. Rise / Penguin Workshop, 2025. 9780593660423. I love New Yorker cartoonist Finck’s picture books! (I think this is her second.) The kids in it have feelings that can’t be expressed in a single word, and […]
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Brownstone by Samuel Teer & Mar Julia. Versify, 2024. 9780358394747. 318pp. Fourteen-year-old Almudena has never met her Guatemalan father, Xavier. When her mother gets a chance to tour with a dance production, she drops Almudena off to spend the summer […]
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The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers by Kiron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard. Image, 2025. 9781534328884. Contains #1 – 5. Publisher’s Rating: M (Mature). I love deciding to pick up a graphic novel in a comic store and then, when […]
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These two sequels to Adam Rex’s Gumluck the Wizard are fun but go read that first book in the series if you haven’t, it’s too great a start to miss. Rex’s stories are hilarious and make the best read-alouds in […]
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Kirby’s Lessons For Falling (In Love) by Laura Gao. HarperAlley, 2025. 9780063067790. 302pp. Kirby Tan is a climbing prodigy with a nemesis (AJ), an awesome best friend (Eric), and a supportive family (her very Christian mother, her younger brother Bowen, […]
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Loving, Ohio by Matthew Erman and Sam Beck. Dark Horse, 2024. 9781506741567. 214pp. Kids have been going missing in Loving, Ohio, but no one seems to care. The opening pages point to a creepy killer (he seems about to murder […]
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Hexagon Bridge by Richard Blake. Image, 2024. 9781534397835. 152pp. Contains #1 – 5. Publisher’s Rating: T+ / Teen Plus. Includes a cover gallery and some preliminary art in the back. This book is beautiful. The collection has as much shelf […]
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