Graphic Novel – Page 77 – Cannonball Read 17

For Gina, and Meika, and Keri – thanks for picking me up.

Jane, the Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt, Isabelle Arsenault (Illustrator), Christelle Morelli (Translator), Susan Ouriou (Translator)

July 24, 2015 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My choice to read Jane, the Fox, and Me was influenced by my participation in the Read Harder Challenge. Tasks 19 and 20 are to read a work originally published in another language and a graphic novel, graphic memoir, or collection of comics of any kind. I had some other books picked out for these tasks, and I have every intention of reading them, but when bonnie and the Chancellor’s reviews of this book back in January I knew that this was something I wanted […]

Some Day They Will Just Be Superheroes

July 23, 2015 by Jenny S 1 Comment

I’m a newbie to the Captain Marvel universe (if not the Marvel universe) but I had been intrigued by the description of Ms. Marvel—a Pakistani-American girl acquiring super powers and was curious to see how it played out. I was not disappointed. Kamala Khan is a typical American girl, living in Jersey City, reading superhero fan fic, and feeling the pull of two cultures—her immigrant parents with their high expectations and strict rules and the teenage world of boys and parties and what she sees as […]

The Iran We Didn’t Know as Told by a Damn Smart Woman

July 20, 2015 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel is both an autobiography and an historical/political education. Her simple yet bold black and white drawings beautifully illustrate the story of her childhood in Teheran in the early 1980s, her teen years in Vienna and her return to Iran in 1989. As an observer of and participant in Iran’s revolutionary upheaval, Satrapi gives a personal view of events and their effect on her family’s welfare while neatly outlining the complicated and complex national story that serves as their context. This is […]

More Dream, more weirdness, we all win.

July 18, 2015 by bonnie Leave a Comment

After my deep enjoyment of Dream Country, I worried that I wouldn’t enjoy anything as much as that “Midsummer Night’s Dream” episode. But seriously, that’s foolishness on my part. Neil is a great writer, and I should just trust him, right? Right. While this serial was not my favorite in the series, I did find the enhancement of Dream’s personal narrative to be a worthy one. I think that it complicated the series and Dream himself. This volume seems to connect to Dream’s larger story […]

A series of unconnected dreams

July 18, 2015 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’ve really been enjoying Neil Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novel series, and this installment was no different. While the narrative did not necessarily build on the previous saga, I did enjoy the episodic tales told throughout this collection. I think that Gaiman is a master storyteller, and his short episodes help build up the nature and character of Morpheus/Dream. This time, Dream Country sees Dream in a series of seemingly unrelated stories that are each fascinating, frustrating, or horrifying. “Calliope” follows frustrated writer Richard Madoc who […]

Ennui over too many comic-book characters is a thing, I guess.

July 18, 2015 by bonnie Leave a Comment

After the intriguing revisit to Gotham City in The Dark Knight Returns, I wondered what sort of sequel The Dark Knight Strikes Again would be. As it turns out, the direct sequel aspect is quickly overshadowed by the expanding of the Justice League World. It’s not a world I’m familiar with, so I soon found my (admittedly limited) knowledge of the Justice League swamped after cursory characters from movies and TV shows I’d seen. It’s not a bad thing, per se, but I still consider […]

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