To help educators and librarians to be informed about what their students and patrons are buying from their local comic shops, we present the Top 50 Graphic Novels for October. Each month, Diamond Comic Distributors announces its best-selling graphic novels based on information provided by partner retailers and NPD Bookscan. Title Publisher Spy X Family, Vol….
Interview: It’s Always the Weekend with Quarto’s Saturday AM Imprint
Kick on the cool this July with a new slate of manga titles from new publisher Saturday AM. Home of the most diverse manga graphic novels. In the following interview, Saturday AM’s Fredrick L Jones explains how – why creating a diverse new avenue of manga titles is so important for young audiences. Let’s go! PreviewsWorld: So, to kick…
Kate Sherron Takes You to the Silk Hills
Art by Kate Sherron Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen Oni’s new graphic novel Silk Hills is described as “Twins Peaks meets X-Files set in Appalachia,” just hit comic shops this week and we got a chance to talk with artist Kate Sherron to find out how she approached creating the look of this terrifying new tale taking readers through the misty hills of…
Graphic Novel Review: Summertime Rendering Volume 6
Published by: UDON EntertainmentWritten by: Yasuke TanakaIllustrated by: Yasuke TanakaISBN: 9781772942439Ages: 15+ If they make it to July 24th, it all ends… Shinpei Ajiro and the rest of the residents of Hitogashima have endured the shadow sickness for too long. Our heroes enter the boss battle in the sixth and final Volume of SUMMERTIME RENDERING…
Graphic Novel Review: Summertime Rendering Volume 5
Published by: UDON EntertainmentWritten by: Yasuke TanakaIllustrated by: Yasuke TanakaISBN: 9781772942422Ages: 15+ “It’s not about how long you live, it’s about how you use that life.” When those words are spoken in this penultimate Volume of SUMMERTIME RENDERING, we readers will know that we are officially in the endgame. But before that… We begin with…
Graphic Novel Review: Summertime Rendering Volume 4
Published by: UDON EntertainmentWritten by: Yasuke TanakaIllustrated by: Yasuke TanakaISBN: 9781772942415Ages: 15+ Looping… looping… each time with less time to solve the mystery. Can Shinpei figure it all out in time? The Fifth Loop begins and Ushioh is able to restart this one with Shinpei. Using her scan and copy skills, their friends and companions…
Graphic Novel Review: Summertime Rendering Volume 3
Published by: UDON EntertainmentWritten by: Yasuke TanakaIllustrated by: Yasuke TanakaISBN: 9781772942408Ages: 15+ The shadows lengthen and some become clearer… Shinpei’s return to Hitogashima was supposed to be for the funeral of his foster sister. What it has turned into is a time-travelling adventure fighting against shadow clones of his friends and family. Each time around…
Noe’s Comics Nook: 6,000 Miles to Freedom
6,000 MILES TO FREEDOM Published by: Graphic Mundi Created by: Stéphane Marchetti and Cyrille Pomès / Translated by Hannah Chute ISBN: 9781637790212 Ages: 16+ Review Imagine you’re 12 years old. Now imagine that your father dies and suddenly your most fundamentalist, unwelcome anywhere but during Thanksgiving dinner uncle is in control of your life. Now…
Noe’s Comics Nook: Clementine Book 1
CLEMENTINE BOOK 1 Published by: Image Comics Created by: Tillie Walden ISBN: 9781534321281 Ages: 14+ Review I’m going to admit something that may make readers of this review scoff and quit: I have never exactly been a fan of The Walking Dead. I found the show boring, I read the first two trades of the…
Graphic Novel Review: Peach and the Isle of Monsters
Published by: Action Lab EntertainmentWritten by: FrancoIllustrated by: Agnes GarbowskaISBN: 9781632291721Ages: 8-12 A graphic novel for young readers, Peach and the Isle of Monsters is an adventurous story of a young woman who sets forth to forge her own path in the world! Peach, named aptly so as she was born from the pit of a…