Tag: graphic novels
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Journey by Starlight: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Life, the Universe, and Everything Review
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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
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Medusa Graphic Novel Review
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Now reprinted with 20 additional pages, this serpentine tale of a troubled soldier who returns home from Iraq to find his daughter has gone missing is still a surreal, uncomfortable experience that doesn’t fit into a convenient niche.
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Hitman Brings it to the Bank in ‘Silence & Co.’
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in Comic NewsYou know that our civilisation is in need of a major overhaul when audiences are up for seeing slick politicians and greedy bankers getting a bullet to the head with the same level of emotional detachment as they might read the colourful exploits of square-jawed heroes battling Doctor Doom and General Zod.
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Report Backs Learning Through Graphic Novels
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in Comic NewsIn case the graphic novel’s validity as a literary format ever does come into question, Jeremy Short and his co-authors at the University of Oklahoma have conducted a study which suggests that, when it comes to directly recalling read material, sequential art is often more effective than traditional prose textbooks.
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Superzelda: The Graphic Life of Zelda Fitzgerald
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Superzelda, the first graphic novel about the Jazz Age icon that is a biography, love story, and travelogue wrapped into one.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Mythical Beginnings Explored in ‘Golgotha’
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in Comic NewsThis April, 215 Ink will be releasing Golgotha, a graphic novel exploring “the mythical beginnings and ominous present of H.P. Lovecraft’s hometown of Providence, Rhode Island.”
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Atomic Robo: Violent Science Hits iOS this Month
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The rise in mobile gaming has not only provided an outlet for small developers that couldn’t afford to get their product onto the major consoles, but it’s also seen a increase in video game adaptations of older or moderately obscure franchises and licenses. Developer Second Fiction has announced that its first action-platformer will be based…
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Shelf Abuse Featured in Top 100 Comic Blogs Infographic
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in Comic NewsDavid Soto has comprised a rather cool infographic listing ‘The Top 100 Comic Blogs to Follow in 2013’. Despite the fact that I’ve only recently resumed blogging – never know, wish hard enough and I might just bugger off again – Shelf Abuse is included somewhere down the bottom, like a dubious trouser stain that…