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Best Comic Books Ever (This Week): September 28 2016
Best Comic Books Ever (This Week): September 28 2016
Best Comic Books Ever (This Week): September 28 2016
The question most often asked of the ComicsAlliance staff is a variation of, “Which comic books should I be reading?” or, “I’m new to comics, what’s a good place to start?” The Wednesday deluge of new comic books, graphic novels and collected editions can be daunting even for the longtime reader, much less for those totally unfamiliar with creators, characters and publishers, and the dark mysteries of comic book shopping like variants, pre-ordering, and formats. It’s with these challenges in mind that we’ve created Best Comic Books Ever (This Week), an ongoing guide curated by the ComicsAlliance staff. This is where new comics readers and seasoned Wednesday shoppers alike can find our picks of the best books the medium has to offer.
Just Outside of Trolberg: Should Your Kids Be Reading 'Hilda'?
Just Outside of Trolberg: Should Your Kids Be Reading 'Hilda'?
Just Outside of Trolberg: Should Your Kids Be Reading 'Hilda'?
Imagine you're a kid, and you and your mom live on the edge of a forest by a mountain. Your mom works from home, so you've got lots to do outside of schoolwork. So what do you do? Well, if you're the curious, blue-haired Hilda, you tromp around nature, drawing and running into trolls, invisible elves, house spirits and all sorts of things. All accompanied by your faithful companion, the reindeer-dog Twig.
New Comic Book Releases For June 29 2016
New Comic Book Releases For June 29 2016
New Comic Book Releases For June 29 2016
The question most often asked of the ComicsAlliance staff is a variation of, “Which comic books should I be reading?” or, “I’m new to comics, what’s a good place to start?” The Wednesday deluge of new comic books, graphic novels and collected editions can be daunting even for the longtime reader, much less for those totally unfamiliar with creators, characters and publishers, and the dark mysteries of comic book shopping like variants, pre-ordering, and formats. It’s with these challenges in mind that we’ve created Best Comic Books Ever (This Week), an ongoing guide curated by the ComicsAlliance staff. This is where new comics readers and seasoned Wednesday shoppers alike can find our picks of the best books the medium has to offer.
Best Comic Books Ever: Free Comic Book Day 2016 Edition
Best Comic Books Ever: Free Comic Book Day 2016 Edition
Best Comic Books Ever: Free Comic Book Day 2016 Edition
Best Comic Books Ever (This Week) is our weekly guide to the best new comics in stores, but today we're taking a special look at the best free comics on offer at this year's Free Comic Book Day on Saturday 7 May. Free Comic Book Day is an annual event in which publishers offer readers a chance to pick up free comics and samplers at local comic book stores. To find a participating store near you visit FreeComicBookDay.com. Most stores will only let you pick up a limited number of free comics, so that there are enough to go around, so here are our recommendations of the cream of the crop.
New Comic Book Releases For March 30 2016
New Comic Book Releases For March 30 2016
New Comic Book Releases For March 30 2016
The question most often asked of the ComicsAlliance staff is a variation of, “Which comic books should I be reading?” or, “I’m new to comics, what’s a good place to start?” The Wednesday deluge of new comic books, graphic novels and collected editions can be daunting even for the longtime reader, much less for those totally unfamiliar with creators, characters and publishers, and the dark mysteries of comic book shopping like variants, pre-ordering, and formats. It’s with these challenges in mind that we’ve created Best Comic Books Ever (This Week), an ongoing guide curated by the ComicsAlliance staff. This is where new comics readers and seasoned Wednesday shoppers alike can find our picks of the best books the medium has to offer.
Learning And Inspiring In Luke Pearson's 'Hilda' Comics
Learning And Inspiring In Luke Pearson's 'Hilda' Comics
Learning And Inspiring In Luke Pearson's 'Hilda' Comics
Charming all-ages comics that teach important lessons about gender -- while not actually being about gender at all -- are a unique and powerful thing. Luke Pearson’s Hilda books from Nobrow Press/Flying Eye Books are stories about a young girl named Hilda. She could have been any gender at all within the framework of the plots, but the choice to have a female lead in these stories serves a powerful purpose that extends beyond the page. The title of the first book in the series, Hildafolk, is a play on the Icelandic huldufólk. Huldufólk are elves in Icelandic mythology thought to live in the rocky landscape: they sometimes had tiny houses built for them by Icelanders. The main character of Hildafolk is a young girl named Hilda who lives in a rocky, mountainous area with her mom and her pet fox-with-antlers, Twig. Quite quickly, Hilda’s world is established with a population of mythical creatures. Hilda is a risk-taker and wants to explore her world; she clearly considers herself an adventurer as well as a documentarian.
Nobrow Demands Attention With Auspicious Spring 2015 Slate
Nobrow Demands Attention With Auspicious Spring 2015 Slate
Nobrow Demands Attention With Auspicious Spring 2015 Slate
This year saw Nobrow earn Eisner nominations for Luke Pearson's Hilda and the Bird Parade (Best Publication for Kids Ages 8-12 and Best Writer/Artist), Nobrow #8: Hysteria (Best Anthology), Jose Domingo's Adventures of a Japanese Businessman (Best U.S. Edition of International Material), and Nobrow is armed to the teeth with an ambitious slate of compelling new work set to debut in the Spring of 2015. Among those comics is Fantasy Sports, an oversized and expanded graphic novel edition of Sam Bosma's self-published Fantasy Basketball, itself one of ComicsAlliance's picks for the Best Comics Of 2013; and Vacancy, a 17x23 comic by Jen Lee, a contributor to CA favorites Wolfenjump and Teen Dog, that Nobrow describes as "a take on Homeward Bound if all the animals were millennials and all the people were dead." Sounds like our kind of jam. The Spring slate includes four additional titles in the 17x23 format, some of which feature the first published work of some extremely talented cartoonists, as well as three full length graphic novels. You can sample the entire lineup below and stay tuned for more coverage of some of these tantalizing new comics in the months ahead.