05.Jun.2009 Bone Vol 5: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith
I’ve been talking about Bone for the last 3 posts now. But no more for a while, I promise. This is the last Bone that I borrowed from the library and I’m gonna have to wait a while to get my hands on the next books in the series. *sigh* It’s for the better. Before [...]
04.Jun.2009 Bone Vol 4: The Dragonslayer by Jeff Smith
This volume of Bone is more dark and gloomy. Thorn is very angry at Gran’ma Ben for lying to her all this time then they get separated. Thorn and Fone get to the village, only to find that Phoney Bone has taken control of the village (how stupid the village people can be?). Phoney Bone [...]
03.Jun.2009 Bone Vol 3: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith
I read my first Bone (Out from Boneville) sometime last year, which I gave a more lengthy review. I didn’t review the 2nd one (The Great Cow Race), because I wasn’t sure how to review a series without giving spoilers. But heck, I’ll review this one and the next ones (I’m up to Vol 5 [...]
21.May.2009 Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Tales from Outer Suburbia is a collection of short stories. Some very short (a page or two), some a bit longer. And how fantastic they are! I love love love these stories! Or should I say the illustrations. I’m not sure which I like more: the artwork or the stories. They’re both amazing. I often [...]
05.May.2009 Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
Ethel & Ernest is a true story of Briggs’ parents, from their first encounter to their deaths. It’s a story of two ordinary people, who experience the changing of the world around them: Second World War, the arrival of television, people landing on the moon, as they brought up their only son. It’s really nice [...]
17.Apr.2009 Clockwork Girl by Sean O’Reilly and Kevin Hanna
Clockwork Girl is a graphic novel about a robot girl that has been given life by her creator (or father as she calls him). The scientist’s neighbor happens to be sort of a biologist/chemist who likes to make things too. So he makes a mutant boy. Robot girl and mutant boy meet each other and [...]
12.Apr.2009 Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
I read Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall last month, fell in love straight away, and couldn’t wait to pursue the rest of the series. Legends of Exile is really the first in the series (1001 Nights of Snowfall is the prequel). Here we get introduced to Bigby the Big Bad Wolf (though he assumes body [...]
07.Apr.2009 Burnout by Rebecca Donner
Burnout is a short graphic novel published by Minx, who looks like it publishes a line of graphic novels that are targeted to young readers. Written by Rebecca Donner and illustrated by Inaki Miranda, I especially like the art style in this book. It has simple lines, but neat, and shows expressions of the characters [...]
26.Mar.2009 Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall is a prequel to the Fables series written by Bill Willingham. Now I’ve been really really wanting to read Fables series, but just can’t get my hands on the books from my library (long story). So when I saw 1001 Nights, and read the introduction which says that I can [...]
20.Mar.2009 The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Complete Maus is a memoir presented as a graphic novel. The complete story was published in 2 volumes: Part I: My Father Bleeds History in 1986 and Part II: And Here My Troubles Began in 1991. It recounts the struggle of Spiegelman’s father to survive the holocaust and also the troubled relationships between the [...]