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…
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…