August 19, 2012 Johanna Abrams / Amulet 4 comments

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales

Nathan Hale (artist of the recommended graphic novel Rapunzel’s Revenge) tells true tales of American history in the new Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, aimed at kids looking for excitement and humor. The publisher promises “history’s roughest, toughest, and craziest stories in the graphic novel format”, and that’s what Hale provides. The first, One Dead Spy, focuses on the author’s namesake, Nathan Hale, a Revolutionary War spy famous for the quote, “I regret that I have but one life to […]

August 18, 2012 Johanna Movie News One comment

Scooby-Doo Continues Guest Tradition With Wrestlers

According to Collider.com, Warner Bros. and the WWE will be teaming up for a new Scooby-Doo animated movie in which the gang solves a mystery at Wrestlemania. Wrestlers such as Triple H, John Cena, Kane, The Miz, and more will lend their voices and animated appearances to the film. So will Vince McMahon. (I bet they draw him younger and buffer.) There’s a long history of bizarre guest shots in the Scooby-Doo cartoons, from Batman and Robin to the Harlem […]

August 18, 2012 Johanna Fantagraphics One comment

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: High Noon at Inferno Gulch

The third in the series of Mickey Mouse strip collections continues providing exciting adventure stories in serialized form. In the first story in Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: High Noon at Inferno Gulch, Mickey and Minnie pilot a plane to get food to a snowed-in mountain town, where they also discover a plot to steal the mine’s gold. The events are flat-out ridiculous at times — with a windmill rotor replacing the propeller and a plane launched from the top of […]

August 16, 2012 Johanna Comic News One comment

Lucy Knisley’s Relish Coming Spring 2013

I have been looking forward to this book so much! Lucy Knisley (French Milk, Make Yourself Happy) is one of my favorite cartoonists, and I love reading about food, and this combines them both! Along with a good dose of memoir. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen is due out in April from First Second. It’s described as so: Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned […]

August 13, 2012 Johanna NBM / Papercutz Leave a comment

Geronimo Stilton Saves the Olympics

Your kids missing the Olympic Games? This new graphic novel hardcover, tenth (!) in the Papercutz series, may be just the thing to remind them of the enjoyment of the competition. Geronimo Stilton Saves the Olympics was my first exposure to the popular mouse character, translated from Italian. It’s a lot of fun, with Geronimo, as an investigative journalist, having all kinds of excuses to get involved in adventure. Here, it’s a journey to 1896 and the founding of the […]

August 8, 2012 Johanna Warner Archive Leave a comment

Last of Sheila Back in Print From Warner Archive

It’s such a cliche to say “they just don’t make them like that any more”, but with The Last of Sheila, they didn’t make them like that then, either. That’s what makes this mystery puzzle film such a gem. Now, the DVD is back in print from Warner Archive, and bless them for doing so. When I went looking for a copy last year, it was regularly going for $40-80, but now, it’s yours for under $20. I recommend the […]

July 29, 2012 Johanna Vertical Manga Reviews 3 comments

Sakuran: Blossoms Wild

I was curious to see this single-volume historical manga by Moyoco Anno after reading her Happy Mania series. (She’s also had Flowers and Bees translated over here.) Sakuran promised to be similar to Happy Mania in its portrayal of a strong-willed but messed-up woman, only this one had kimonos and a more explicit use of sex as a transaction. Kiyoha is a child slave at a brothel who eventually, out of stubbornness, rises to become a leading courtesan during the […]

July 20, 2012 Johanna Other Prose 3 comments

Seraphina

I’ve been a fan of Rachel Hartman’s work for 15 years now. Many readers won’t remember or haven’t heard of her comic work, but in the late 1990s, she created an amazing series of minicomics called Amy Unbounded about a young woman growing up in a medieval society. (Several issues were collected as Belondweg Blossoming.) Hartman created her own historical fantasy world, and it was astounding, full of details like what the musical instruments looked like and how the industries […]

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