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  • The Best Graphic Novels of 2007
    By Staff - 03/15/2008
    Here are Martha Cornog's and Steve Raiteri's personal GN bests. Among reissues, The Complete Terry and the Pirates, Vol. 1 (LJ 1/08) and Jack Kirby's Fourth World (see review, p. 53) rate high for Steve, while Martha votes for Viz's manga Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White. Abadzis, Nick . Laika . First Second . More
  • Graphic Novels
    By Martha Cornog and Steve Raiteri - 03/15/2008
    2007 in Review More comics—What's not to like? With comics as the new poster child for literacy, good GN news for 2007 includes more variety and titles. Foreign works beyond manga—Franco-Belgian, Scandinavian, Indian, and even Russian (see review of Siberia, p. 54)—show up on American shelves. More
  • Graphic Novels
    By Martha Cornog and Steve Raiteri - 01/15/2008
    Love and comics have been in bed together since at least the 1700s, when witty kibyõshi (pictorial novels) recounted infatuations and misadventures in Japan's pleasure quarters (see Adam Kern's scholarly Manga from the Floating World, incorporating three kibyõshi stories in full). The sometimes sappy, sometimes scandalous American romance comics reached huge audiences pretelevision, u... More
  • Graphic Novels
    By Martha Cornog and Steve Raiteri - 11/15/2007
    Glyphs Glamour "So that's what Rich was up to," mused comics journalist Cheryl Lynn Eaton in her 2006 entry in her blog—Digital Femme—announcing the inaugural Glyph Awards. The Glyphs recognize the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color in the preceding year. Founded by comics journalist Rich Watson, the awards are not exclusive to black creators but do strive to ho... More
  • Graphic Novels
    By Martha Cornog and Steve Raiteri - 09/15/2007
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    By Martha Cornog and Steve Raiteri - 07/15/2007
    The latest Graphic Novels book reviews from Library Journal magazine. More
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    By Martha Cornog and Steve Raiteri - 05/15/2007
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