Author: Gene Ambaum

The Jellyfish by Boum. Translated by Helge Dascher and Robin Lang. Pow Pow, 2024. 9782925114307. 228pp. Odette Biset-Yu has a jellyfish in their left eye. Between their bookstore job, hanging with their rabbit, and meeting friends, it’s easy to ignore. […]
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Roy Is Not A Dog by Esmé Shapiro and Daniel Newell Kaufman. Tundra, 2024. 9780735265967. Weasel believes he knows all the people on his paper route except Roy, who is a bit mysterious. After observing Roy a bit, Weasel concludes […]
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Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Translation by Amanda Haley. Viz, 2023. 9781974738939. 200pp. Publisher’s Rating T+ / Older Teen. Yuta, a middle school student with a new cell phone, starts shooting video footage of his mom at her request. When […]
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Hirayasumi Volume 1 by Keigo Shinzo. Translation by Jan Mitsuko Cash. Viz, 2024. 9781974746910. 189pp. Publisher’s Rating T / Teen. Twenty-nine-year-old Hiroto Ikuta works part-time at a fishing pond. He acts super dorky when talking to attractive women his own […]
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Tokyo These Days Volume 1 by Taiyo Matsumoto. Translation: Michael Arias. Viz Media, 2024. 9781974738809. 216pp. After thirty years Shiozawa is leaving his position as a manga editor because the magazine he started a few years back has folded. He […]
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Dwellings by Jay Stephens. Oni Press, 2024. 9781637152911. 272pp. Contains #1 – #6 originally published by Black Eye Books. Includes a cover gallery. I hope you love the cover of this collection as much as I do. Inside are six […]
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Project Arka: Into the Unknown by Romain Benassaya (writer) and Joan Urgell (artist). Based on Pyramides by Romain Benassaya. Translator: Mark Bence. Humanoids, 2023. 978-1643377025.s120pp. In 2182, the Arka III and several other colony ships leave the earth to colonize […]
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Newburn Volume One by Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips. Image, 2022. 9781534322394. Contains #1 – #8. Publisher’s Rating: M / Mature. Easton Newburn used to be a police detective. Now he’s a private detective “on retainer to all of the […]
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Clay Footed Giants by Alain Chevarier (co-writer, artist) and Marc McGuire (co-writer). Mad Cave, 2024.9781545808412. Publisher’s Rating: Teen +. Right at the beginning, a character in Clay Footed Giants asks, “What’s with men these days?” And for a second it […]
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A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, Adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham. Clarion Books, 2025. 9780063285767. A Wizard of Earthsea is my favorite book. After seeing the live-action disaster (I think it was made […]
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