[...] True Things (Adults Don’t Want Kids to Know) [...]

[...] And Then There Were Gnomes [...]

[...] plans. I last wrote one of these columns in February, which isn’t so bad, except it was February 2011. Ah, well, at least that means I have plenty to talk about (and I aim to have the next installment [...]

[...] Watson’s style, with the reductionist cartooning and gorgeous coloring similar to his work in Glister. He uses an almost monochrome palette that sets an emotional mood while varying the tones for [...]

[...] a side effect of my Great Graphic Novels for Kids columns — which I aim to restart Any Day Now — I have also been sent a number of [...]

[...] pet. In later chapters, she befriends a mouse and ventures outside for the first time. (Judging by Binky the Space Cat, this is a common feline [...]

[...] how much I enjoyed reading Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile, I was thrilled to hear it had been transformed into an iPad app ($4.99 US, also available for [...]

[...] Nina in That Makes Me Mad! I’m way behind in what was intended to be a monthly Great Graphic Novels for Kids column (that last one was in February), but that means I’ve got a foot-high stack of good [...]

[...] The Good Neighbors Volume 3: Kind, Graphix, $12.99, now in paperback [...]

[...] you could do a lot worse than two new series installments from Kids Can Press. The latest volume of Binky the Space Cat, about a funny cat who thinks he’s an astronaut, is Binky Under Pressure (JUL11 1140, $8.95, [...]

[...] new Amelia Rules! is something to celebrate. The seventh book in the series, The Meaning of Life… And Other [...]

[...] kids, I have reliable evidence that they will love Binky to the Rescue (Kids Can Press, $8.95), an adorable story of a cat who thinks he’s an [...]

[...] always adored Jason Shiga‘s puzzle comics, most recently Meanwhile…, but I wasn’t as big a fan of his more straightforward story comics (Double Happiness and [...]