Author: Gene Ambaum

The One Hand & The Six Fingers by Ram V (writer, The One Hand), Laurence Campbell (artist, The One Hand), Dan Watters (writer, The Six Fingers), Sumit Kumar (artist, The Six Fingers), Lee Loughridge (colorist), and others. Image, 2024. 9781534359719. […]
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Tongues Book 1 by Anders Nilsen. Patheon, 2025. 9781524747206. 368pp. Oversized. Mythological. Philosophical. Violent. Absolutely beautiful. I’m struggling to figure out what to write about this book. If you like graphic novels, you should pick it up; but if you’re […]
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Let’s Go, Coco! A (sorta) true story by Coco Fox. HarperCollins, 2024. 9780063256415. 236pp. Fox’s graphic “memoir” focuses on the time just after her best friend, Blair, moved away. Coco is particularly worried about making new friends, and after some […]
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Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love. Candlewick Studio, 2021. 9781536217711. 87pp. I grew up reading tales of King Arthur and Greek/Roman heroes and gods, but I never really […]
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A Pillbug Story by Allison Conway. Black Panel Press, 2024. 978990521218. 196pp. Mille is a pill bug living in a bug town where she has lots of friends (that’s them on the cover): Alphie (ladybug), Holly (a spider), Ruby (an […]
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The Knives (A Criminal Book) by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Image, 2025. 9781534355590. 200pp. If you’ve never read one of Brubaker and Phillips’ Criminal graphic novels, this is a good place to start even though some of the characters […]
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Raised by Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn. Fantagraphics, 2025. 97988755000508. 216pp. At the end there’s a section on how to fold notes three different ways, “I made you a mixtape, hope you like it,” and a selection of VHS tapes titled […]
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Ditching Saskia by John Moore and Ren Neetols. Flying Eye Books, 2024. 9781838741556. 192pp. Damian is the new kid at school and Frank is his only friend. Both have crushes on more popular kids who don’t seem to know they […]
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The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day by Raúl the Third. Colors by Elaine Bay. Little, Brown, and Company, 2025. 9780316528689. 126pp. Raúl the Third’s dedication is really all you need to know about this graphic novel. “I drew this book […]
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Checked Out by Katie Fricas. Drawn & Quarterly, 2025. 9781770467811. 356pp. Louise is an aspiring cartoonist trying to draw a graphic novel about pigeons in World War I while working at a shoe store. She’s also romantically entangled with a […]
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