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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin
James E. Ransome. Penguin/Paulsen, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-32488-2In spectacularly composed signature-style spreads, Ransome (Fighting with Love) crafts a wordless story that centers an unhoused child and caretaker. From school pickup to drop-off, the close, familial-feeling figures, portrayed as Black, together navigate a bustling, New York City–like metropolis.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin
Don Martin. Page Street, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 979-8-89003-270-6As a teenage witch in training, Verity Vox—accompanied by her shape-shifting familiar, Jack—travels from one community to another, offering her magical services at no cost as practice toward perfecting her ability to cast spells through song and spoken spells. Her latest request, mysteriously delivered to Verity upon a leaf, reads: “We’re cursed...
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin
Jeannine Atkins. Atheneum, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6659-7754-8In this lucid, accessible verse memoir, Atkins (Green Promises) chronicles her experiences as a college freshman healing from the trauma of sexual violence and finding her voice through poetry. Circa 1972, 18-year-old Atkins returns to her Massachusetts childhood home to process “the word that ends one story and starts another.” When her stoic parents offer little support, she gains fleeting comfort from Sylvia Plath’s poetry.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
tripwiremagazine.co.uk | Jilian Tamaki |Ed Brubaker |Mariko Tamaki |Juan Díaz Canales
Last night at a ceremony at the Javits Center, the 2024 Harvey Awards winners were announced.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
emporiagazette.com | Mariko Tamaki |Jordyn Baker
“Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me” by Mariko Tamaki, First Second, May 2019, $16.00. All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together was the best one of Freddy’s life, but nothing’s made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, and SO CUTE…but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy’s head spinning — and Freddy’s friends can’t understand why she keeps going back.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Mariko Tamaki |Deena Mohamed |James Sturm |Jilian Tamaki
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Looking for the best of the best when it comes to comics? Then you’ll want to read your way into this year’s 2024 Harvey Award nominees. Over 50 titles are on this year’s short lists. The Harvey Awards were founded in 1998 and named after writer and artist Harvey Kurtzman.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
downthetubes.net | John Freeman |Becky Cloonan |Tula Lotay |Mariko Tamaki
British creator Bryan Talbot, currently working on a new graphic novel, The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor, has been officially inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
gatecrashers.fan | Javier Rodriguez |Javier Rodríguez |Mariko Tamaki
My history with Zatanna is pretty funny. As I grew up, I was introduced to her in Batman: The Animated Series and then years later in Young Justice. A few years later, I had started reading comics, but I hadn’t seen her in anything (since, at the time, all I did read was almost exclusively Batman and Spider-Man). Once I started to expand my horizons, she appeared as a cameo here and there. It wasn’t until about two years ago that I actually got into her stories.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
scarymommy.com | Jessica Walton |Mariko Tamaki |Rosemary Valero-O’Connell |Caroline Huntoon |Amber Guetebier
I read and review a lot of kids' books, and I've noticed some positive trends over the last four years. There's the increase in representation of culturally celebratory books written by BIPOC authors and illustrators; a delightful spike in horror and thriller novels written by queer, Indigenous, and Latinx writers; and one of the best trends for teens — LGBTQAI+ romance stories told in the form of graphic novels.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
comicbook.com | Jamie Lovett |Alex De Campi |Steve Orlando |Mariko Tamaki
Another new comic book day is nearly here, which means new comic books and graphic novels will be arriving in stores and on digital platforms. Every week in The Weekly Pull, the ComicBook.com team spotlights the new releases that have us the most excited about another week of comics. Whether those releases are from the biggest publishers in the direct market or a small press outfit, brand new issues of popular series, original graphic novels, collected editions of older material, or whatever else.
