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, SYFY WIREs weekly comics column that gets at the pulse of whats going on in comics right now. Weve got what you need to know about huge crossovers, real-life issues facing the industry, cool first looks, the weeks hot new comics, and everything in-between. Awards Season is upon us, and while we tend to associate this time of year more with films and television than printed works, comics are getting in on the love too. Last week the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announce...

I unexpectedly cried as I read the wonderfully queer, GLAAD-nominated graphic novel The Magic Fish. My tears were the drops of sweet, unbridled joy and unencumbered hopefulness. As a middle-aged, lifelong comic book enthusiast I found my emotional response after finishing The Magic Fish to be a delightful surprise.  While The Magic Fish is aimed at a middle-school audience, its heartfelt honesty transcends age. It is a bold immigrant story focusing on Tien, a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy, and...

These diverse, compelling stories will hook readers. Know a graphic novel fan? Chances are you do! In recent years, this genre has taken off and now there are so many wonderful and diverse graphic novels for young readers. The following high school and middle school graphic novels are some of our favorites for the classroom. Middle School Graphic Novels Finding a pet proves to be challenging for a kid with severe allergies. And unfortunately, the household is too distracted to notice.  This is...

Courtesy of Sloane Leong/John Paul Leon/Adrian Tomine From heartbroken Canadian cartoonists to Superman punching racists, this years top releases had a lot to say about the world weve been living in over the last twelve months. It’s been a rough year for the comics industry, with the COVID pandemic forcing many stores to go into temporary shutdown (and, sadly, some stores to close permanently). Publishers, too, were affected, with some halting production and others pulling back on plans — i...

Childrens Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2020 Compiled by Diane Roback | Dec 22, 2020 We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year, frontlist or backlist, and what they loved about it. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published. Happy reading! Jamie Tan, senior publicist, Candlewick Press I’ve been craving the kind of books that I would devour ...

December 18, 2020 3:00pm by Graeme McMillan Courtesy of Sloane Leong/John Paul Leon/Adrian Tomine From heartbroken Canadian cartoonists to Superman punching racists, this years top releases had a lot to say about the world weve been living in over the last twelve months. It’s been a rough year for the comics industry, with the COVID pandemic forcing many stores to go into temporary shutdown (and, sadly, some stores to close permanently). Publishers, too, were affected, with some halting prod...

On the surface, comics faced no more hurdles in 2020 than any other retail offering. As isolated people around the world turned to familiar sources of entertainment, distraction, and solace, comics were there for them, from nonfiction graphic novels to the latest dimension hopping adventures of eternally entangled superhero continuity. Even as COVID-19 safety measures began to set new boundaries on everyday life, the American comics industry seemed handily poised to keep making comics. The lif...

‘Kent State’ On Top of PW’s 2020 Graphic Novel Critics Poll By PW Staff | Released in September during the 50th anniversary year of the 1970 tragedy, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts) by veteran comics journalist Derf Backderf garnered the majority of votes in PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll, receiving eight votes from a panel of 14 comics critics. In this deeply researched work, Backderf, best known for his Eisner-nominated 2012 gra...

$9 million. i guess the customs officials are wrestlers. a state champion forfeited his march because he didnt want to fight a girl. apparently its a religious thing. the teenagers pentecostal church forbids men and women from touching in a familiar way so there she is, cassy herkelman, she won that title but was defeated in the quarterfinals. the kid who forfeited, everybody was expecting him to go all the way. hon how it happens, but showers he gets goldfish to swim in sync. this is china ...