Nancy Wins at Friendship  is the second collection of the Olivia Jaimes era of that long-running newspaper strip; it was published in 2023 but seems to mostly reprint strips from the 2019-2020 era. Jaimes took over the strip in 2018, and her first collection, just called Nancy , came out less than a year…
I don’t want to say “art of” books always come out as line extensions after a creator has died and can’t produce new work, but…it’s pretty darn common. This book, for example: The Art of Edena , part of the vague “Moebius Library” (which seems to be primarily, if not entirely, posthumous itself). It was…
Conceived by Barbara Pyle and media mogul Ted Turner, Captain Planet was an ecological hero way ahead of his time. The animated series ran for years with some nifty design work by Neal Adams and his Continuity Associates. Each episode featured an adventure and a lesson (of course). It endeared itself to a generation of…
Across 39 episodes, HBO’s Succession deftly explored familial dysfunction and corporate malfeasance, drawing inspiration from numerous sources, notably the Murdoch empire and its aging patriarch, Rupert. But the show went beyond that with side trips into egotism, child rearing, negotiating communication post-divorce, and the consequences of decisions, both those made and those avoided. As a…
Apple+ debuted in November 2019 but needed a hit show to become synonymous with the streaming service, and they had to wait until August 14, 2020, when Ted Lasso arrived. The series features a fresh take on a character created by Jason Sudeikis for NBC Sports’ 2013 coverage of the Premier League. His then-girlfriend Olivia…
Young Hag and the Witches QuestBy Isabel Greenberg 272 pages/Amulet Books/$24.99 The Arthurian legends wax and wane through the years and 2024 is shaping up to be a year of revival. Specifically, on Tuesday, Lev Grossman’s new novel The Bright Sword, will tell of the days after Camelot fell. It follows the May release of…
I should have realized they were commercial illustrators – their work has all of the hallmarks. The polish, the construction, the architecture of the comics panels. It all shows a deep insight into design and a deep concern for design, for telling stories precisely and sharply. I didn’t quite realize that the first few times…
SYNOPSISA thrilling post-MTV roller-coaster ride, RUN LOLA RUN is the internationally acclaimed sensationabout two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She’s just received a frantic phone call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who’s lost a small fortune belonging to…
My skills as a reviewer don’t line up well with this book’s strengths, so this may be a mess. I apologize up front. Hedra is an Eisner Award-winning short wordless graphic novel by Jesse Lonergan from 2020, and I’m mostly a words person. It uses grids in a really interesting way, breaking up pages –…
The surprise success of Ghostbusters: Afterlife breathed new life into a moribund franchise, giving us a new generation of supernatural sleuths to cheer for. It was very touching to see the original quartet (Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and the late Harold Ramis) suit up one more time and kick ghostly ass. But, it…
This book is already dancing about architecture. So I worry that anything I might say would compound that – painting a picture of dancing about architecture. But here I am, and here I go. Fall Through is Nate Powell’s new graphic novel this year: it has what I think of as his trademark atmospheric, black-background,…
I must admit that I missed Dexter’s Laboratory when it originally aired on the Cartoon Network from 1996-2003. Friends raved about its charm and humor and the brilliance of animator Genndy Tartakovsky. So, the arrival of Dexter’s Laboratory: The Complete Series is welcome. On sale today from Warner Home Entertainment, the set includes all 78…
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