June 25, 2014 Johanna Manga News One comment

Manga Goes Mainstream With Mascara Brand

L’Oreal Paris has introduced Miss Manga mascara, a new brand promising “oversized, over-the-top lash volume… for the ultimate wide-eyed manga look.” It comes in black, black brown, or blackest black. Here’s the ad, which involves a cartoon panda ad, bright pink, and a “main-ga” pronunciation. Turns out that this line was first launched in the UK, where it was also offered in Violet and Turquoise. Wow, the 80s are back! Reviews of the product are mixed, with some calling it […]

June 24, 2014 Johanna First Second 5 comments

This One Summer

This One Summer beautifully captures the feel of a lazy, timeless summer, as written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. The season portrayed also quietly marks a transition for Rose, a girl just entering adolescence. Rose and her parents have gone to Awago Beach, on the shore of a lake, as they do every year. It’s a tradition for them, as is Rose hanging out with the slightly younger neighbor girl Windy. But this time, we can tell […]

June 23, 2014 Johanna Graphix / Scholastic 3 comments

Sisters

After the immense success of the best-selling, Eisner Award-winning Smile, it’s no surprise that Raina Telgemeier has created another graphic memoir. Sisters takes a somewhat wider view, looking at her family, particularly her relationship with her younger sister. The book is structured around a family road trip from California to Colorado in a minivan driven by their mother and including Raina, the five-years-younger Amara, and youngest brother Will. They’re going to a family reunion, but first, they have to survive […]

June 23, 2014 Johanna Other Publishers 2 comments

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

I’ve enjoyed the previous comics I’ve read by Liz Prince, such as Alone Forever. Those were collections of strips, though, short moments of humor or observation punctuated with a certain cynicism. Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir is her first long-form work, in the popular autobiographical comic genre. And it’s fascinating, mainly due to her honesty about her gender struggles. As a four-year-old, Liz refused to wear dresses, preferring baseball caps and sneakers. Her parents were generally accepting; it was schoolmates that […]

June 22, 2014 Johanna Fantagraphics 5 comments

An Age of License: A Travelogue

Lucy Knisley is one of my favorite comic artists. I haven’t read a book of hers I didn’t like, which means each new title comes with greater expectations. An Age of License is the first of two travel memoirs by her coming from Fantagraphics, and I’m pleased that it’s as good as I hoped. It’s set in 2011, when Lucy went to a Norwegian comic festival. Along the way, she went to France to visit her mother, who was vacationing […]

June 22, 2014 Johanna Oni Press / Lion Forge 2 comments

Princess Ugg #1-2

I previously ignored the new Oni title Princess Ugg because I thought it was some kind of fantasy story, what with the barbarian princess with the battleaxe on the cover. (Author Ted Naifeh is best known for the Courtney Crumrin series.) I was wrong. It’s set in a fantasy-style kingdom, but it’s really a social satire, a fresh take on what it really means to be a princess. Ülga is princess of Grimmeria, a cold and forbidden mountain land where […]

June 22, 2014 Johanna Action Lab Leave a comment

The F1rst Hero #1

Still available to order for a few more days is the first issue of a new miniseries from Action Lab Entertainment. The F1rst Hero is planned for four issues, beginning in August. It’s written by Anthony Ruttgaizer and drawn by Phillip Sevy. There are two cover choices, both by artists who aren’t doing interiors; the Lee Moder cover will be $3.99 for 32 pages (order with Diamond code JUN14 0756), and the Jamal Igle (limited to 1500 copies, which strikes […]

June 19, 2014 Johanna Image Comics One comment

Displaced Persons

Derek McCulloch, writer of Stagger Lee, returns with a mind-bending generational noir involving time travel and how terrible families can be to each other, illustrated by Anthony Peruzzo. The three main sections of Displaced Persons look at various generations inhabiting a San Francisco house across from a park. In 1939, a private eye struggling to keep his family together under economic pressure is asked to find a mogul’s missing daughter. She’s run away, perhaps for very good reason, as a […]

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