Author: Gene Ambaum

Mister Invincible: Local Hero by Pascal Jousselin. Translated by David Bryon, James Hogan, and Ivanka T. Hahnenberger. Magnetic, 2020. 9781942367611. 96pp. Mister Invincible is the only true comic book superhero! He has the power of comics — he can hop […]
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Roald Dahl’s The Witches: The Graphic Novel adapted and illustrated by Pénélope Bagieu. Translated from French by Montana Kane. Scholastic Graphix, 2020. 9781338677447. 304pp. A young boy who has just lost his parents lives with his grandma, who can’t give […]
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Umma’s Table by Yeon-Sik Hong. Translated by Janet Hong. Drawn & Quarterly, 2020. 9781770463868. 360pp. In this follow-up to Hong’s Uncomfortably Happy, South Korean manhwa artist Madang moves to a small house in the outskirts of Paju with his wife […]
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The Grot: Book One in the Story of the Swamp City Grifters by Pat Grant with colouring by Fionn McCabe. Top Shelf, 2020. 9781603094665. In The Grot a family (two brothers and a mother) sets out to make their fortune […]
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When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2020. 9780525553915. 264pp including an afterward to the graphic novel and author’s notes by both Mohamed and Jamieson, plus photos of Fatuma, Hassan, and Omar. […]
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Livi & Nate by Kalle Hkkola and Mari Ahokoivu. Translated by Owen F. Witesman. Owlkids, 2019. 9781771473729. 72pp. In this Finnish graphic novel the two title siblings live with their mom and grandpa. The landscape is covered in snow. Livi […]
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Ralph Steadman: A Life In Ink by Ralph Steadman. Chronicle, 2020. 9781797203003. 320pp. “It seems I have done a lot of pictures over my life, and pictures explain quite a lot about life that words do not.” — Ralph Steadman, […]
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Lightfall Book One: The Girl & The Galdurian by Tim Probert. HarperAlley, 2020. 9780062990464. 248pp. Beatrice, a human girl, lives with her gramps, Alfirid the Pig Wizard. He sends Bea out into the woods to look for ingredients for an […]
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My Cat Looks Like My Dad by Thao Lam. Owlkids, 2019. 9781771473514. The cat not only looks like the dad, they have much more in common including morning yoga and a love of boxes. Lam’s beautiful papercut illustrations are silly […]
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Return of the King (A Queen’s Thief Novel) by Megan Whalen Turner. Greenwillow, 2020. 9780062874474. This is the conclusion to a six book series that I started reading way back in library school. Every book in the series is great, […]
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