A famous literary author creates a very weird and paint-by-numbers comic/graphic novel. Well done illustrations can’t save this one.
Continue readingAngle Catbird (Volume 1) by Margaret Atwood (Author), Johnnie Christmas (Illustrator
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The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman – Part I
Halfway through and ready to dive in again. So far, my sense is those who are fans of both Gaiman and the genres he works in would enjoy this book the most. A lot of it is “inside baseball” on comics, fantastical fiction, etc. those who enjoy that world will get the most out of Gaiman’s unique discussion and perspective on it.
Continue readingBluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan
What makes it all the more fun is that it captures both history and biography without seeming like school work or coming off pedantic. Instead it is engaging and creative storytelling through the lens of history. Evocative and yet allowing the reader the space to fill in the story with their own imagination.
Continue readingThe Great Mogul Diamond (The Dopple Ganger Chronicles) by G.P. Taylor
When I first heard about The Dopple Ganger Chronicles by G.P. Taylor I was intrigued. Part graphic novel part young adult action story? Interesting, no? So when Tyndale publishers offered a review copy of the third book in the series, The Great Mogul Diamond, I jumped at it. Here is the publisher’s blurb: Everything was… Continue reading