Zach Weinersmith – Cannonball Read 17

Maybe if they taught the epic poem this way, we’d get it!

Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith

September 15, 2023 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

The graphic novel Bea Wolf was both a book I loved and was thinking after only a few pages, “Just what exactly am I reading?” There are layers upon layers upon layers to the story arcs, and yet this is a simple story. If I have to say the first work that comes to mind when describing it, I would say Artistic. The second, Confusing. The third, Simple-Beauty (okay I know that’s technically two, but that’s what fits!). Zach Weinersmith was influenced by the story of Beowulf, and therefore […]

This will be one of my year-end favorites

Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith, Boulet

March 31, 2023 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Bea Wolf is a graphic novel that re-imagines the classic epic poem Beowulf. I’ve reviewed Seamus Heaney’s award-winning translation of Beowulf as well as Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife (an excellent read) but this Beowulf is a little different. And it is also outstanding! Bea Wolf is Beowulf for kids. It is clever and hilarious with incredibly good black and white drawings by Boulet. Much like a Bugs Bunny cartoon, kids could read this and get a good laugh out of it, […]

You also learn his best man has great hair….

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan

December 24, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This review is less about the book and more the journey I took to find and read. Once you read the title, you do not need to really know more about the book. Do you want to read a non-fiction graphic novel on the subject? Yes or no. But maybe my feelings on the subject will help you decide. I had heard about Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration and even though it was a First Second book (which as you know I […]

Read it… you know… soonish.

October 30, 2017 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Zach Weinersmith is the writer behind the delightful Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic, and with his wife wrote and researched this book on emerging technologies. If you’re a fan of the comic, you’ll enjoy this book, if you’re unfamiliar with it … fix it: http://www.smbc-comics.com. It’s pretty much the only comic I go out of my way to read daily. The authors do a spectacular job making the cutting edge of science – by their very nature as developing fields difficult to explain and understand – […]

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