Title: Dreams Factory Published by: Magnetic PressWritten by: Jerome HamonIllustrated by: Suheb ZakoISBN: 9781951719524Ages: 10+ Setting: London, 1892, Heavy Industrial vibe Making her way through the snow and ice, Indira heads to work in a coal mine. Though she is young, she has to make money to help her and her little brother Elliot to survive….
Graphic Novel Review: Ghost Cage
Title: Ghost Cage Published by: Image Comics Written by: Nick Dragotta, Caleb Goellner Illustrated by: Nick Dragotta ISBN: 9781534323155 Ages: 12+ “I’m not here for tech support! I’m babysitting a power plant grim reaper!” OHM, the company that provides the world with seemingly limitless energy, has a problem. Terrorists have been causing rolling blackouts. To deal with…
Graphic Novel Review: Trapped on Zarkass
Published by: Magnetic Press Written by: Yann, Stefan Wul Illustrated by: Didier Cassegrain ISBN: 9781951719562 Ages: 16+ The year is 3001. Women are in power and have solved many of our problems. Nature is back in balance with humans and technology, and gendered names are basically a thing of the past. There is peace. Earth has…
Graphic Novel Review: Chicken Devil
Published by: Aftershock Comics Written by: Brian Buccellato Illustrated by: Hayden Sherman ISBN: 9781949028973 Ages: 18+ “I’m not a criminal… I’m just a guy who makes really good chicken!” Mitch is much like your average family man. Wife, two kids, family issues, owns a business. That business is a very successful small chain of fast food restaurants…
Graphic Novel Reviews: Beneath the Trees: A Fine Summer
Title: Beneath the trees: A Fine Summer Published by: Magnetic Press Written by: Dav Illustrated by: Dav ISBN: 9781951719548 Ages: 6+ ‘Let’s go outside and play ball together’ is the invitation of Dav’s Beneath the Trees: A Fine Summer. This charming graphic novel is a gentle read with minimal text and a whole lot of…
Graphic Novel Reviews: Loonicorns
Title: Loonicorns Published by: Magnetic Press Written by: ced Illustrated by: Waltch Pierre and Gorobei ISBN: 9781951719517 Ages: 12+ Unicorns as they have never been seen. Animaniacs meets My Little Pony in this rollicking adventure. The graphic novel, Loonicorns, takes readers to an alternate world where the sun and moon dropkick each other out of…
Graphic Novel Reviews: Darryl Openworld
Title: Darryl Openworld Published by: Magnetic Written by: Remi Guerin Illustrated by: Krystel ISBN: 9781951719500 Ages: 12+ Full steam ahead! Darryl Openworld is steampunk at its finest with a touch of magic and spirits. Journalysts are the adventurers in Darryl’s world, and he is the best. He will accept any challenge, and although he is…
ALA ANNUAL 2022 RECAP
ALA Annual Conference is the biggest library event of the year. This year it was hosted in Washington DC. Diamond Book Distributors attended the conference with Image Comics, Dynamite, AfterShock Comics, and Graphic Mundi. Diamond and Our Publishers provided participating attendees with exclusive single issue comics and trade paperbacks, swag bags, and more. The following…
Top 50 Best-Sellers: June 2022
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…