Song of the Lioness Book One: AlannaBy Tamora Pierce, Vita Ayala, and Sam BeckAbrams Fanfare/256 pages/Hardcover (($26.99), Softcover ($17.99) Tamora Pierce crafted Song of the Lioness, a four-part story tracing the making of a hero in the form of twins Alanna and Thom. Across the young adult novels, she dealt with gender and bullying, set […]
Most books like this have a subtitle, but not this one. It is just Sartre. Take him as he is, or walk away – those are your options with the book, as it is with all things Sartrean. This is a French graphic novel, written by Mathilde Ramadier and drawn by Anais Depommier. And I […]
Chip Kidd is one of the premier book designers of our day, and a big proponent of comics as an art form. He also has a tendency to get…let me say “fussy”…in his designs – he came of professional age in the go-go Nineties, and that can be seen in his work sometimes. He also […]
I find myself staring at this blank page, either unsure of what to say or not actually having anything to say. (I’m also writing this one on Christmas morning, which is its own issue.) So I’ll try being short and factual, and see if that gives me a way in. Delights was Guy Colwell’s new graphic […]
