The March 15 issue of Booklist features comics with a suite of articles on the topic, including a list of “Top Ten Graphic Novels for Youth” from the past year. The issue also includes starred reviews of Benny and Penny and Otto’s Orange Day.
The March 15 issue of Booklist features comics with a suite of articles on the topic, including a list of “Top Ten Graphic Novels for Youth” from the past year. The issue also includes starred reviews of Benny and Penny and Otto’s Orange Day. British comics critic and historian Paul Gravett surveys the history and current state of comics for younger readers in the UK, noting the decline of traditional children’s comics publications like The Dandy and recent entries into the field from book publishers. He also reviews The Savage, Dave McKean‘s adaptation of a short story by David Almond. Lance Festerman announces that this year’s BookExpo America will include in its programming a graphic novel breakfast event on Saturday, May 31 featuring Jeff Loeb, Mike Mignola, Jeff Smith, and TOON Books’ Art Spiegelman. The event will be followed by a full-slate of comics related programming. Panel discussions will cover the following topics:
BookExpo America will take place May 29 through June 1, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Geppi’s Enertainment Museum has mounted “Scrooged!”, an exhibit of work by and pertaining to the work of Carl Barks. The Baltimore City Paper reviews the exhibit, noting that the show includes the original artwork for Barks’s story “North of the Yukon,” the only Barks duck story for which complete original artwork is known to exist. The exhibit runs through May 31, 2008. Jon Scieszka, recently named by the Library of Congress and the Children’s Book Council as the inaugural National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is briefly interviewed for the debut issue of Notes from the Horn Book, the Horn Book‘s new online newsletter: What do you say to a parent who says, “My kid hates to read. What can I do?” “Try expanding your definition of reading to include humor, nonfiction, graphic novels, magazines, fantasy, science fiction, online content, audiobooks. Your kid may just hate to read assigned reading. Ask them what they are interested in. Empower them by letting them choose to read, and to choose what to read. Allow them to not like what might be your favorite reading.” The Nickelodeon Magazine blog notes the publication’s recent “All-Comics Special,” featuring work by cartoonists including Ariel Bordeaux, Kim Deitch, Sam Henderson, Michael Kupperman, Bobby London, David Mazzucchelli, R. Sikoryak, and Jay Stephens. Fantagraphics notes the forthcoming softcover edition of Jordan Crane‘s kid-friendly graphic novel The Clouds Above. Two debut titles from the TOON Books collection have received starred reviews in the March 17 issue of Publishers Weekly. The starred review of Benny and Penny by Geoffrey Hayes reads, in part, “These skillful drawings do just what they attempt: they lever beginning readers right into the story.” Children’s book historian and critic Leonard Marcus pens a lengthy starred “Signature” review of Agnès Rosenstiehl’s Silly Lilly: “On the evidence of Rosenstiehl’s initial contribution, Dick and Jane may now pack up their things and leave town for good.” The Stanley Stories website reprints several stories written by John Stanley and includes a guide to “Stanley-isms,” distinctive characteristics by which one might recognize a comics story written by John Stanley.
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