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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Author: Gene Ambaum
Graphic Novel Review: Tokyo These Days Volume 1 by Taiyo Matsumoto
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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Graphic Novel Review: Dwellings by Jay Stephens
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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Graphic Novel Review: Project Arka: Into the Unknown by Romain Benassaya and Joan Urgell
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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Graphic Novel Review: Newburn Volume One by Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips
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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Graphic Novel Review: Clay Footed Giants by Alain Chevarier and Marc McGuire
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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Graphic Novel Review: A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, Adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham
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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Graphic Novel Review: All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong
All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong. Arsenal Pulp, 2024. 9781551529493. 238pp. Teresa Wong’s graphic memoir starts with her visiting her mother in the hospital after her mother had a minor stroke. When her mother doesn’t […]
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Picture Books!
How To Pee Your Pants* *the right way by Rachel Michelle Wilson. Feiwel and Friends, 2024. 9781250910172. 32pp. This book has helpful advice on how to hide the evidence, how to find some clean “clothes” to wear after an accident, […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Vera Bushwack by Sig Burwash
Vera Bushwack by Sig Burwash. Drawn & Quarterly, 2024. 9781770467118. Drew lives in the woods with her new dog, Pony. She’s learning to fell and buck trees by working with Spoons, a neighbor who seems to be doing a little […]
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