April 10, 2023 Johanna Other Leave a comment

Presenting on Sherlock Holmes in Comics at 221B Con This Weekend

This coming weekend, April 14-16, 2023, is 221B Con in Atlanta, and I’m thrilled to go! It’s a fan-run gathering for those interested in Sherlock Holmes, any version through the ages, and it’s a fabulous time (based on how much I enjoyed attending for the first time last year). I will be presenting on Sherlock Holmes in Comics at 5:30 PM on Saturday. Come see me! I’ll also be one of the panelists for “Fan Friends in Real Life” — […]

April 6, 2023 Johanna HarperCollins One comment

Crunch by Kayla Miller

Olive Branche, the star of the series beginning with Click (and most recently continued with Clash), faces a new challenge in Crunch by Kayla Miller. She’s got so many things she wants to do — guitar lessons, Berry Scouts, school politics, and a contest to make a short film — that basics like sleep and homework are falling by the wayside. The political challenge is particularly timely, as she and her friends set out to demonstrate that the school dress […]

April 5, 2023 Johanna Oni Press / Lion Forge Leave a comment

A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent

Isabella Rotman presents an incredibly important subject in straightforward, understandable fashion in A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent, fourth in the series of Quick & Easy Guides. Sargeant Yes Means Yes from the Consent Cavalry helps various couples get past assumptions to better understand how important (and fun) consent can be. The situations are common, the questions often unspoken but necessary, as the Sergeant points out. Topics covered include “what is consent?”, particularly affirmative consent. We learn about the […]

April 3, 2023 Johanna First Second Leave a comment

History Comics: The Stonewall Riots

I’m impressed and thrilled to see this subject included in a line of graphic novels about history for young people. History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights is written by Archie Bongiovanni (A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns) and illustrated by A. Andrews (A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability). The introduction, by professor Michael Bronski, sums up the importance of works like this one. “We must acknowledge our history, reflect on […]

April 1, 2023 Johanna Yen Press Manga Reviews One comment

Embrace Your Size: My Own Body Positivity

I loved the message in Embrace Your Size: My Own Body Positivity, but I wished it had gone further. Perhaps this is a difference between American and Japanese attitudes. Or perhaps I was just hoping for a different book than this was intended to be. Embrace Your Size is hara’s story of how she came to realize that she could still be interested in fashion and wear cute clothes while being larger-sized (which in Japan is a size bigger than […]

March 31, 2023 Johanna Other 2 comments

How and Why to Read Fanfiction

This is a guide for how to read fanfiction (or fanfic). But before we do that, bear with me. We’re going to start with the elephant in the room. WHY would you read fanfic? A bunch of reasons. No matter how many stories/shows/movies/books they make with your favorite character, you may want more. (For popular series, there are tens of thousands of fanfic stories available, all for free, and multiple millions of words.) Particularly if your favorite is a supporting […]

March 24, 2023 Johanna Other Publishers Leave a comment

Witches of Brooklyn: S’More Magic

The camp-themed S’More Magic is the latest entry in the ongoing Witches of Brooklyn graphic novel series by Sophie Escabasse. Effie is off to the woods for a summer camp for witches. There, she’ll find out whether she has a green thumb, meaning affinity with plant magic and a special connection with nature. The new setting allows for new characters. Her aunts (whom we got to know in the first book) and friends (second book) make small appearances, but the […]

March 23, 2023 Johanna Other Publishers 2 comments

Shirley and Jamila’s Big Fall

Lately, given my SherlockComics.com project, I tend to get asked “what’s a good Sherlockian comic for kids?” Since Muppet Sherlock Holmes is long out of print, this is my new first choice. Gillian Goerz’s previous book, Shirley and Jamila Save Their Summer, introduced the intrepid detective and her devoted friend and storyteller. Shirley and Jamila’s Big Fall goes further in loosely adapting an actual Sherlock Holmes story. Blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton here becomes school bully Chuck Milton. He’s class president, […]

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