Author: Gene Ambaum

Eight-Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland. Fantagraphics, 2020. 9781683963110. 96pp. Taller than your average graphic novel. Eight people run on a track that winds through the woods (and other places). Soon after they start, a runner from another group steals the […]
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Don Vega by Pierre Alary. Translation: Matt Madden. Europe Comics, 2020. http://www.europecomics.com/album/don-vega/ for digital purchasing options. A Zorro tale set in late 1840s California, drawn by Pierre Alary, whose art I fell in love with while trying my best to […]
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Moms by Yeong-Shin Ma. Translated by Janet Hong. Drawn & Quarterly, 2020. 9781770464001. 372pp. This graphic novel, focused on the lives of women in their fifties living in Seoul, South Korea, starts with a street fight between two women over […]
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Sentient by Jeff Lemire (writer) and Gabriel Walta (art). TKO Studios, 2019. 9781732748590. Contains Sentient #1 – #6. Onboard the USS Montgomery. Mission Day 742. Earth has about ten years of habitability left. The crew and their families on the […]
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Oh My Gods! written by Stephanie Cooke and Inshah Fitzpatrick, Art by Juliana Moon, Color by Whitney Cogar. Etch (houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2021. 9780358299523. 208pp. Karen leaves New Jersey to go stay with her dad, Zed, for a while in […]
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A Gift For A Ghost: A Graphic Novel by Borja González. English translation by Lee Douglas. Abrams ComicArts, 2020. In 1856, Teresa meets a person in a skeleton costume in the woods, and makes the mistake of telling her little […]
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A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2) by Arkady Martine. Tor, 2021. 9781250186461. 496pp. This is a sequel to Martine’s A Memory Called Empire. That one is about an ambassador from a space station trying to help her people maintain […]
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War and Peas: Funny Comics for Dirty Lovers by Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich. Andrews McMeel, 2020. 9781524854072. 160pp. Frequent characters in this collection include Death, Dog, two couples, a ghost, a robot, and a witch who likes to party. […]
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The Size of the Truth by Andrew Smith. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 9781534419568. 288pp. On Thanksgiving, when he was four, Sam fell into an abandoned well in Blue Creek, TX. He couldn’t really remember what happened when he fell, but […]
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And the People Stayed Home by Kitty O’Meara, illustrated by Stefano Di Christofaro and Paul Pereda. Tra Publishing, 2020. 9781734761788. 32pp. This picture book started out as a poem about the COVID pandemic. O’Meara’s words quickly drew acclaim and praise […]
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