Yellow Cab is a fascinating look at New York City from the perspective of a filmmaker. It’s adapted by Chabouté from a book by Benoit Cohen and translated from the French by Edward Gauvin. Alm...
Kate Leth’s Mall Goth is a charming period piece that covers universal experiences about being a teen, with more optimism than I expected. That’s welcome. It’s the early 2000s. Liv has just...
The Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women’s Suffrage, and Jujitsu is a fascinating story of history most people won’t know. It’s written by Clément Xavier, illustrated by Lisa Lugrin, and tr...
The Happy Shop, by Brittany Long Olsen, has a fable-like feel that I appreciated. Darcy has just moved to a new country because of her mother’s job. (It’s not stated, but given the pound pric...
A Firehose of Falsehood: The Story of Disinformation is another of First Second’s World Citizen Comics. In addition to tackling a must-know topic, particularly these days, it’s also gorgeousl...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/02/09/a-firehose-of-falsehood-the-story-of-disinformation/
There are over 40 new pages in Adventures in Cartooning: Characters in Action (Enhanced Edition), compared to the first edition, which means more lessons on how to design characters from James St...
FairSquare Comics completes its reprinting of Watson and Holmes with the second volume. Watson and Holmes: A Scandal In Harlem reprints the previous second collection of stories with a new, short...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/01/29/watson-and-holmes-returns-with-new-story/
I had no expectations about Doctor Who: Doom’s Day coming in. I didn’t pay much attention to Time Lord Victorious, the previous cross-platform multimedia event back in 2020, because I find ch...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/01/28/doctor-who-dooms-day/
When I found out someone had done a Hound of the Baskervilles pop-up book, I had to get one. (A common reaction, as everyone I’ve shown it to has gone out and ordered one for themselves — sin...
The Great British Bump-Off is an ideal high concept, and one right up my alley: a murder mystery set during a baking show. And it’s by John Allison, whose Giant Days I loved, and illustrated by...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2023/12/26/the-great-british-bump-off/
In Superman vs. Meshi by Satoshi Miyagawa and Kai Kitago, Superman loves the food in Japanese chain restaurants. He uses his powers to jaunt around the world to get lunch and still get back to wo...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2023/12/03/superman-vs-meshi-volume-1/
Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel is a faithful adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel, adapted and illustrated by Bob Al-Greene. With one odd exception: Hercule Poirot is c...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2023/11/27/murder-on-the-orient-express-the-graphic-novel/
Thank goodness we still get book collections of webcomics, or I’d never have stumbled across this heart-warming and reassuring collection by Beth Evans. Some might quibble with the term comics ...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2023/11/20/thinking-of-you-but-not-like-in-a-weird-creepy-way/
The Science Comics line continues with The Periodic Table of Elements: Understanding the Building Blocks of Everything, an introduction to the basics of chemistry by Jon Chad. Mel is anxious abou...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2023/08/23/science-comics-the-periodic-table-of-elements/
Two of the biggest trends in graphic novels over the past few years are graphic memoir (biographies and autobiographies in comic format) and non-fiction comics (particularly those about scientifi...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2023/08/16/washingtons-gay-general/
Deya Muniz’s The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich is a wonderfully silly romance with plenty of cheese puns. You probably already know from that description whether you’d like it or n...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2023/08/12/the-princess-and-the-grilled-cheese-sandwich/