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Small Press Expo 2023I find myself able to attend the Small Press Expo 2023 (Saturday only — but given how there were more people that wanted rooms than available...
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Lost Legion of Super-Heroes Art by Stuart ImmonenThe below, I’ve been told, was intended to be one of the pinups for the oversized Legion of Super-Heroes #100 (which was cover-dated January...
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Science Comics: The Periodic Table of ElementsThe Science Comics line continues with The Periodic Table of Elements: Understanding the Building Blocks of Everything, an introduction to the...
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Washington’s Gay GeneralTwo of the biggest trends in graphic novels over the past few years are graphic memoir (biographies and autobiographies in comic format) and...
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Kiss Number 8We not only live in changing times, but we live in quickly changing times. Kiss Number 8 came out in 2019, and as the story of a girl realizing...
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The Princess and the Grilled Cheese SandwichDeya Muniz’s The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich is a wonderfully silly romance with plenty of cheese puns. You probably already...
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Why I Adopted My HusbandI’m glad to see more manga memoirs coming out. Comics is such a great format for nonfiction true-life stories, as they show what happened in...
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The Fatal FolioI was so impressed by The Fatal Folio, third in the Cambridge Bookshop mystery series by Elizabeth Penney, that I went back and read the first two....
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Pow Pow Press Titles Available Through Lunar DistributionPow Pow Press is a small publisher out of Canada with the goal “to make the work of Québec cartoonists available to an English-speaking...
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Scooby-Doo Teams With Krypto in Upcoming AnimationScooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! has been announced as available on September 26… but there’s a catch. It’s not a bad idea to team up...
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Young Agatha ChristieI don’t really know how to sum up Young Agatha Christie. It’s got a number of interesting features, and together they make for an enjoyable read,...
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Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories: Pests and PetsAndy Warner, the author of the entertaining popular history Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, returns with a similar, animal-focused book, Andy...
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How to Win the War on Truth: An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim RealityHow to Win the War on Truth: An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality covers, with copious...
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The Way of the Househusband: The Gangster’s Guide to HousekeepingI didn’t read much of The Way of the Househusband. It’s a good concept — Tatsu, a former gangster, applies the same kind of...
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History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette ColvinI’ve been impressed by the majority of the History Comics line for their modern, sensible approaches to stories, well-known or not, that younger...
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Fence’s Return to Serialization Successful, Plus a PreviewFence launched at the end of November 2017. It’s the manga-like story of a bunch of boys competing at fencing, dealing with rivalries, and...
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Ride OnIt’s a sign, I think, of how accepted comics for young women have become (in contrast to the bad old days of a couple of decades ago, when comics...
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Heartstopper Volumes 1 and 2If you haven’t heard about Heartstopper by now, you clearly don’t know many young people. It’s a successful Netflix TV show, with some of the best,...
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The DC Book of PrideThe DC Book of Pride is subtitled “A Celebration of DC’s LGBTQIA+ Characters”, and it is. However, for those who want more than a...
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Sherlock Holmes Solo Mysteries: The Crown vs. Dr. WatsonAs regular readers know, I enjoy choose-your-own-path books, particularly when they’re Sherlock Holmes-related (and even more so when...
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Random House Worlds Putting Out 3 Marvel “What If” NovelsFrom a recent press release: “Random House Worlds, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, announced today a...
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Besties Work It Out and Besties Find Their GrooveKayla Miller’s Click series (five books so far, the latest being Crunch) has a spinoff. That’s the benefit of writing about kids in school —...
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Distressed Beeping: Andi Watson’s Single-Page ComicsI’ve been a fan of Andi Watson’s work since the mid-90s, when he came to attention with the Skeleton Key series. In the 200s, his...
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Batman in “Mystery of the Scarecrow Corpse” (Book/Record Set)Thanks very much to a generous reader of SherlockComics.com, I have now acquired a copy of the 1976 Batman Book/Record Set that contains two...
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Revenge of the LibrariansWith Revenge of the Librarians, Tom Gauld returns with another volume of witty, insightful cartoons about books, writers, and readers, following...
