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...
Doughnuts and Doom is one of those modern fantasies for which I’m still looking for a good genre name. You know the kind… Young people work in a coffee shop — but they’re werewolves! Or t...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2022/09/22/doughnuts-and-doom-with-preview/
For those waiting, while reading these graphic novel adaptations of the young adult novels made into a popular Netflix movie, for more involvement from the more famous Holmes, this is the volume ...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2021/05/26/an-enola-holmes-mystery-the-case-of-the-bizarre-bouquets/
It’s been so long since I’ve been surprised by the existence of a graphic novel that I think that was part of the appeal of reading British Ice, which came out earlier this year from Top Shel...
An Enola Holmes Mystery: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady by Serena Blasco is the second graphic novel adaptation from the YA series by Nancy Springer, following The Case of the Missing Marquess....
https://comicsworthreading.com/2020/01/03/an-enola-holmes-mystery-the-case-of-the-left-handed-lady/
It’s that time of year, when we start thinking about ghosts and goblins and jack-o-lanterns and things that go bump in the night. There are plenty of comics and graphic novels with ghosts in th...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2019/10/31/ghosts-a-not-so-scary-roundup/
From 2006-2010, Nancy Springer wrote six YA mysteries about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock. The Case of the Missing Marquess by Serena Blasco, from IDW’s EuroComics imprint, adapt...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2019/05/20/an-enola-holmes-mystery-the-case-of-the-missing-marquess/
I loved the concept of Tara O’Connor’s Roots, and I appreciate her flowing line and art style, but the result was disappointing, in large part because I disagreed with the result. Which is we...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2018/09/09/roots-by-tara-oconnor/
What a luscious cocktail of naughtiness! In the early 1980s, Trina Robbins adapted and serialized a terrible pulp novel from 1919 by Sax Rohmer (who created Fu Manchu, and whose ridiculous ideas ...
When Them Zahler announced his newest project, Time and Vine, I called it “drunk time travel” to be silly, but the series turned out to be much different than I expected. Zahler is best known...
The premise of James Albon’s Her Bark and Her Bite intrigued me. Painter Rebecca struggles to be discovered and have her work recognized, only to become Victor’s girlfriend and one of his han...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2017/08/07/her-bark-and-her-bite/
Today’s leading exhibit of “You can’t go home again” is Bloom County: Episode XI: A New Hope. The most interesting part of the book, to me, was Berkeley Breathed’s introduction, explain...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2017/07/09/bloom-county-episode-xi-a-new-hope/
I’m late talking about this — issue #3 of the Jem: The Misfits is already out — but I keep coming back to this issue and being struck by the honesty of the struggle it portrays. The Misfits...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2017/03/21/jem-the-misfits-2/
While I can intellectually appreciate the amount of work that goes into such a heavily detailed book, particularly given the artist’s comments on the subject — the style feels woodcut-influen...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2017/03/06/tonoharu-part-three/
Jem and the Holograms #23 concludes the “Enter the Stingers” storyline, which began in issue #19. I’m impressed by how well writer Kelly Thompson pulled it all together, because this was th...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2017/01/24/jem-and-the-holograms-23/
I haven’t checked in with the Jem and the Holograms comic in a while, although it’s an engaging retake on the rock-and-roll Cinderella story, with plenty of soap opera to keep fans reading th...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2016/06/25/jem-and-the-holograms-dark-jem/