Young readers today are enjoying a new twist on literature.
Not quite a comic book or chapter book, the increasingly popular graphic novel has qualities of both.
The graphic novel and even more specifically, “Manga,†is derived from Japanese culture. The book starts at the back and reads forward, plus the pages read from right to left. [...]
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Jun
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Jun
Apparently I acted too hastily. Forty-five years later, comic books are the common currency of contemporary Hollywood.
Today’s mass moviegoers might not read novels or go to Broadway plays. But they sure know Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and, now, Iron Man.
This should be the point where your grumpy critic goes on a rant against cultural trash and [...]
4
Jun
It looks a bit like a comic book, but it’s anything but a lighthearted story.
A new graphic novel being put out by the National Center for State Courts is intended to help the public learn about the court system in a way that’s a far cry from a simple brochure anyone can pick up at [...]
27
May
The hero of Omaha Perez’s black-and-white graphic novel piss-take on the world’s greatest detective, Holmes (AiT/Planet Lar), is far removed from the familiar deerstalker capped brainiac we’re accustomed to seeing. This Sherlock Holmes is a half-crazed dope fiend more concerned with looking good in the press than in actually solving the case. Prone to paranoid [...]
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May
Comics publisher Devil’s Due and Capcom have signed a deal to turn some of Capcom’s popular video games, starting With Bionic Commando And Lost Planet, into graphic novels.
The First In The Four-Property Deal Will Be Bionic Commando, Variety Reports, with writer Justin Marks hired on for writing duties.
Marks has been busy recently spinning pop culture [...]
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May
TSB Bank Arena in Wellington resembled a movie set yesterday as sci-fi, fantasy and comic book fans flocked to the Armageddon Expo for make-believe and dress-up.
Young Star Wars wannabes mingled with freaky monsters and superheroes in supertight outfits. A life-size Doctor Who Dalek character was there, plus several stormtroopers from Star Wars.
Shannon Lambert was one [...]
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Mar
Midnight March 4 is the “bewitching hour” for Stephen King fans who read his Dark Tower series like gospel.
Marvel will release the first 48-page issue of his second graphic-novel series, “Dark Tower: The Long Road Home,” at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, March 5. The Comic Store, 28 McGovern Ave., will be open for business at 9:30 [...]
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Mar
Pilgrim’s progress for graphic novel fans as Cera touted to star
Posted by admin Published in Novel PrizeCapt. Canuck ain’t got anything on Scott Pilgrim. The hero of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels about a bass-playing slacker who has to fight the seven exes of his lady love Ramona, the four- volume (so far) series is a whimsical, anime-styled, video-game infected story set in Toronto.
This week, in a perfect bit [...]
11
Mar
At Edelstein boarding school, the schoolboys wear lip-gloss, the headmistress has a weakness for homoerotic comic books, and there is only one subject: how to serve female visitors.
Welcome to Tokyo;s first schoolboy cafe, the latest in a flurry of eateries in Japan where customers and waiters role play themes from manga comics.
In keeping with the [...]
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Mar
TOKYO %26mdash; Until recently, cellphone novels %26mdash; composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens %26mdash; had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago.
Then, in December, [...]
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