Celebrating the Comics, Cartoons and Creators of Central Ohio
Clarion Books released Fish Girl in 2017, and the book went on to become a three-time Caldecott Medalist. Visit a boardwalk aquarium and you might just get a glimpse of the mermaid hiding behind the kelp.
Continue reading “Fish Girl”Published by Image Comics in 2010, Frank Cho presents Liberty Meadows: Eden. Brandy Carter is a beautiful animal psychiatrist working with nerdy veterinarian, Frank Melisch.
Continue reading “Liberty Meadows: Eden”Were you ever reading Lone Wolf and Cub and thought, “You know, this would be better if we lost the cub and made everyone an anthropomorphic animal?”
Continue reading “Usagi Yojimbo”I recently sat down to watch the animated movie Persepolis based on the acclaimed graphic novel, which was so good that it drove me to re-read the book.
Continue reading “Persepolis”Late in 2022, I walked down to German Village’s “The Book Loft” for an author’s reading. Melanie Gillman was reading from her newly released book Other Ever Afters. Released by Penguin Random House, the book contains seven fairy tales for the modern age. In these tales, there was nothing short of magic where monsters were heroes and princes could be villains.
Continue reading “Other Ever Afters”The mastery in Michel Rabagliati’s storytelling sneaks up on you. I remember my first encounter with his work, in one of those big Drawn and Quarterly anthologies circa 2000, thinking that I had found a cartoonist with a knack for well-observed comedy.
Continue reading “The Life of Paul Contains Multitudes: An Appreciation of Michel Rabagliati’s Paul Moves Out”Comprised of Meredith Gran’s popular webcomic’s first two years of strips, Octopus Pie Vol. 1 tells the story of two twenty-somethings living together in New York. Ning is the uptight one who works at Ollie’s Organix, and Hannah is her friend from kindergarten turned stoner and pastry baker.
Continue reading “Octopus Pie Vol. 1”As she mentions in her introduction, Kate Beaton would often put off writing essays to do comics for the student paper. She would eventually start putting them online as she continued working on her degree in history. It would turn out that she was able to meld both of these worlds into something truly fantastic.
Continue reading “Hark A Vagrant”Published by Dark Horse Comics in 2020, I read the tenth-anniversary edition. This book is a well-deserved winner of both a Harvey Award and an Eisner Award.
Continue reading “The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack”In 1972, Terry Eisele’s parents divorced. While that is tragic in itself, it was a benefit to readers as, without it, we would never have got this heartwarming book. The book reads like a thank you letter to his grandmother, Mary Newman, and is a nostalgic look at the weekends that Terry spent at her house.
Continue reading “The Big Red Machine, Grandma, and Me”