June 2012
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Tale of Sand by Ramón K. Pérez (after a screenplay...
Tale of Sand by Ramón K. Pérez (after a screenplay by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl). Color by Ian Herring.
1. review by Ben. Sorry .. this ended up being super long!! I hope someone actually reads it.
2. Synopsis. MAJOR SPOILERS: Tale of Sand tells the story of average guy Mac’s nightmarish run from various kinds of danger in a desert as he tries to find a light for his cigarette. The...
May 2012
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Goliath by Tom Gauld
1. Ben
2. synopsis. This graphic novel gives readers a new perspective on the Biblical story of David and Goliath. First, here’s the traditional story in a nutshell as best I can make it out, and then I’ll explain how the Tom Gauld story departs from it:
Here’s the traditional story in a nutshell: The story (from 1 Samuel, chapter 17) recounts the battle Saul / the Israelites versus the...
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Dear Creature by Jonathan Case
1. Ben
2. synopsis. Grue is a mutant humanoid sea creature. He and the crabs that live on and around his body spend their time mostly in lonely isolation under sea. But they must eat, and for food Grue goes to the surface to lure high schoolers who hang around the beach. He appears to keep parts of their bodies in a treasure chest too, ‘curing’ and ‘aging’ them it would seem for better...
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Hotwire Comix and Capers (Vol. 1) (anthology)...
1. Ben
2. This is an anthology of several stories by various authors: Glenn Head, Max Andersson, Johnny Ryan, Tim Lane, Judith McNicol, Matt Madden, David Paleo, Mike Wartella, R. Sikoryak, Doug Allen, Lauren R. Weinstein, David Lasky, Tony Millionaire, Onsmith, J. Bradley Johnson, Mats!?, Carol Swain, Sam Henderson, Christian Northeast, Michael Kupperman, Craig Yoe, Ivan Brunetti, Danny Hellman,...
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The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells, adapted by Rick...
1. Brandon Horton
2. The book “The Invisible Man” is about a stranger who arrives in a tiny English village of Iping. He was wrapped from head to toe walking the streets alone. Then finally he came upon a place called Coach and Horses Inn. He knocked on the door and a woman named Mrs. Hall opened the door. She was surprised that she got business this late, but thought the extra business was a...
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I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
1. Eric Shultz
2. The story that I read for the Reading Rainbow Project was, I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason. The story starts out in an apartment with an assassin stalking his next victim. The assassin then goes to another assassin so that he can take out his neighbor because he is getting way too annoyed with him. After the meeting with the other assassin he runs into one of his former clients...
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Ultra-Gash Inferno by Suehiro Maruo
1. John Robinson
2. Synopsis. In this graphic novel there are 9 short stories of differing tales and characters. The stories follow in this order “Putrid Night” “Sewer Boy” “A Season In Hell” “Shit Soup” “The Great Masturbator” “Putrid Night: Raven Of Oedipus” “Sewer Boy: Paradise” “Voyeur In The Attic” “Nonresistance City” ALL OF THEM HAVE VERY GRAPHIC CONTENT AND SHOULD BE VIEWED AT YOUR OWN...
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Dracula Madness (A Sam & Friends Mystery) by Mary...
1. Tilah Parker
2. The book I read was quite interesting. It was mainly about a special dog named Samatha that moved with her human family to a new house. Samatha became very depressed under a new surrounding but got much comfort meeting her daily dog walker Jennie. They soon became great friends having a great bond. One day while taking Samatha for a walk Jennie discovered a mysterious house....
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The Book of Grickle by Graham Annable
1. Lindsey Hallgren
2. “The Book of Grickle” is a short graphic novel of two-hundred pages. The book is comprised of mini comic strips. The characters switch throughout the book between many people. There is no main or specific character in the book, but more of the people in this place called Grickle. Graham Annable makes the comics funny but also relatable to real life instances. The first...
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What're You Lookin' AT?! by Johnny Ryan
1. Jonisha Brock- Bell
2. In this book there were a lot of stories going on with different main events. The first story was about a guy who got kicked out of his girlfriend’s house, and went to live with his friend for year. He didn’t pay rent or anything he was just a free loader. By the end of that comic he had completely ruined his friend’s house. Next big story was about the blind date, and...
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Kiss & Tell by Mari Naomi
1. Erika Matteson
2. This story “Kiss & Tell” by Mari Naomi is based on her love life from age five until she is twenty-two years old. It begins with a small story of how her parents met in Japan and when she was born in the United States. As the book goes on it describes all of her sexual encounters with over 20 different men and also including some experiences with women. The main character...
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Nausicaa of The Valley of Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
1. Erika Matteson
2. The book “Nausicaa of The Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1” story and art by Hayao Miyazaki, is a beloved Japanese story based on a young princess, Nausicaa, who encounters many life threatening hardships and responsibilities during a time of war. As her father king of the Valley of Wind lies upon his death bed, he has to appoint Nausicaa as the chieftain of the valley under the...
April 2012
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5 is the Perfect Number by Igort
1. Dean Kmiecik
2. “5 is the Perfect Number” is a story focusing on the mafia. The dad is also the main story teller in this novel. This story takes place in probably the 70s and is inNaples,Italy. It begins with a dad and his son, the dad is discussing with his son past times of being in the mafia, but then tells his son that he became too old and had to let it go. His son took it up and has...
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Hey Skinny! Great Advertisements from the Golden...
1. Mickhael Salim
2. Hey Skinny, Great Advertisement form the golden age of comic books. By Milles beller and jerry Leibowitz. is about advertisement’s in the 1940’s and 1950’s. All the cool advertisements from back in the day the list goes on from Gun advertisements, Miniature monkey, fire works, cigarettes, neck-ties that glow in the dark. All sorts of really awesome...
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Habibi, Craig Thompson
1. Samantha Tadros
2. This graphic novel, told in first person, contains two main stories with multiple themes; one story is a love story between Zam and Dodola. The other story is about Dodola’s struggles throughout her life starting at a very young age. The themes include survival and love. Zam a protagonist is at the beginning of the novel a young, skinny African American slave, and by...
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V for Vendetta By Alan Moore
1. Nathan Puchalski
2. The comic begins on November 5th, 1997. There are only a few main characters in the novel worth mentioning. V is the main focal point of the novel and is a man shrouded in mystery. He always wears a mask and his past is completely unknown to all but himself. V is an anarchist and he and his actions provide the catalyst for the novel. Evey is a young 16 year old girl who has...
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Ghost of Hoppers by Jaime Hernandez
1. Kristen Menapace
2. This graphic novel had several smaller stories that had similar characters, linking each story to the next. The main character, Maggie, is a bisexual with difficulties in her love, career and family lives. She has a larger, more shapely figure. After being recently divorced (from a man), she starts a complicated relationship with a young lady, Hopey. Hopey is skinny, with...
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Other Lives HC by Peter Bagge
1. Tilah Parker
2. This book was unordinary and weird. It was basically about a guy named Vlad that comes across an old friend at a bar described as someone else:Javy/Otis. Vlad’s girlfriend named Ivy meets Vlad’s friend Woodrow who’s apart of this second world make believe website that it so happens that Otis has created. So Ivy joins and her and Woodraw takes it over board...
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A) Maus: A Survivor's Tale B) Art Spiegelman
1. Bradley Steele
2. The novel Maus starts off in 1978 when Art Spiegelman goes to his fathers house to have dinner with his dad and his step mom. Art’s mother killed herself in 1968 so his father remarried. After dinner Art sits down with his dad ,Vladek, to listen to his stories about the Holocaust and the Nazi takeover in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s because he wants to draw a...
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The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch
1. John Mcdonnell-Marcks
2. “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams” is a graphic novel that uses sequential art. Set in the depression era the novel cover two main characters basically-Waldo the cat who is the alter ego of Ted Mishkin who is an animator. Waldo is Ted’s character that he uses for his sketches. Towards the beginning of the novel Waldo is a dark almost devilish type of...
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“Nocturnal Conspiracies: Nineteen Dreams From...
1. Shelby Csernyik
2. The main characters name is David Beauchard, who is also the author of the graphic novel. In this novel Beauchard transports his readers into his world. There is a series of nineteen dreams dating from December of 1979 to September 1994. In these dreams he depicts many strange, scary, and beautiful experiences. Many of the dreams consist of murder, thievery, graveyards,...
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Amphigorey Also by Edward Gorey
1. Margaret Brosky
2. Edward Gorey’s “Amphigorey Also,” is made up of 17 short stories, all following a childlike theme. Each story deals with a different set of characters performing random actions. As each story line is ridiculously random, the individual passages become more interesting as the reader continues. The many stories include “The Utter Zoo”, “The Blue Aspic,” “The Epiplectic...
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Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso
1. Keturah Grays
2. The graphic novel “Artichoke tales” is mainly focused around a teenage girl by the name of Brigitte. This young girl lives in a land where the north and south are at war and the people have artichoke leaves as hair. Brigitte has come to the point in her life where she as has many questions about the north. Her ill grandmother Charlotte, fills her in on the history of their...
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Paper Rad: Cartoon Workshop Pig Tales Digest by...
1. Alex Karas
2. My book had many mini comics in it which are all formatted with four 3-pannel-strips per page. Every other was colored with bright vibrant colors and then the other pagers were black and white. Each panel has a different color next to it. The main colors are green, yellow, purple, blue, and pink. Every object involved in the comics has a face, such as coffee pots and bowls. The...
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Will and Abe’s Guide to the Universe
1. Ryan Speelman
2. Will and Abe’s Guide to the Universe is a compilation of short, independent comics. The author, Matt Groening is the creator of The Simpsons and has written many other comics and cartoons. This book is quite different from his usual work which is largely based on spinning off major events, like politics and entertainment. In Will and Abe’s guide to the universe, Matt Groening...
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Special Exits by Joyce Farmer
1. Precious Glass
2. This story was about an older couple on their way to dying. There were two major incidents that happened in the story. There were two deaths that occurred. There were not too many exciting things that happened in the story. It was not a predictable story, it was a more drawn out story. There were three main characters in the story. Lars, he is a funny caring old man. The...
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Take A Joke (Angry Youth Comix) By Johnny Ryan
1. Nicolas Howard Herrild
2. This graphic novel is composed of several different stories all into one book. The novel ranges from short little stories to small individual jokes which consist of a picture and a short humorous description. The story topic’s can leave a person with night mares or laughing there butt’s off. A suit made from celebrity buttocks, getting rid of breast cancer, a woman’s...
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Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth by...
1. Jason Clements
2. This novel is a psychological thrill ride swapping between the story of Amadeus Arkham and a story where on April Fools day Joker and the rest of the inmates of Arkham Asylum take over the asylum and take hostages. While the reader slowly learns about the tragic events of Amadeus Arkham’s life the story is constantly interjected by the other story. The inmates have asked for...
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The Hidden by Richard Sala
1. Kevin Slimak
2. This graphic novel starts off showing an attack on a city following the point of view of a professor. He constantly says sorry as if what is happening if his fault. He then wakes up showing the reader that it was just a dream, or flash of the past. After waking, two people find the professor, the names of these two characters are Tom and Colleen, who are a couple and are the...
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Skin Deep by Charles Burns
1. Anna Grace
2. Skin Deep by Charles Burns is a comic novel based off of many characters within three separate stories. The first story is called “Dog Days”. This story features a man called Dog-Boy, and he is an average man who one day turns into part man part dog. It is narrated by Dog-Boy himself. Many people got the wrong impression about him because of his dog-like urges when he interacted...
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A Contract With God by Will Eisner
1. Cody Williams
2. A Contract With God, by Will Eisner is a graphic novel set in the times of the Great Depression (1930’s). The novel is not one single story, but rather it is four stories. All four stories, however, take place and revolve around one building in New York City. This building is 55 Dropsie Avenue. The first story of events in 55 Dropsie is the tale of a Jewish man named...
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Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
1. Chelsea Peele
2. In Chicken With Plums, Marjane Satrapi tells the true, though slightly embellished, story of her great-uncle Nasser Ali Khan. He is a talented musician, and after his wife break his beloved instrument, he takes to his bed and decides to die. Throughout the rest of the story, readers are shown flashbacks from Nasser Ali’s life that tell why he believes he has nothing left to...
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Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show by Suehiro Maruo
1) Marco Ramon
2) This is a story focusing around a young girl named Midori that ranges to various locations in Japan. After her father left and her mother died Midori is tricked into being a virtual slave for a traveling freak show that is run by Mr. Arashi. Everyday she is demoralized, humiliated, or otherwise abused by the freaks in the show. You got the Giant: who isn’t all that tall,...
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Pinocchio by Winshluss
1. Zachary Paul Ernat
2. Pinocchio is a superb book with a great story-line and fantastic artwork. The book and title match up, with a little made-up boy trying to find a place in the world where he fits in, just as the older version. If you had to place it a certain time period, it would be modern day. As far as genre goes, it is perhaps a fantasy noir or a dark adaptation of a old story. This...
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A. The Magic Whistle Blows B. Sam Henderson
1. Patsie Meyers
2. The Magic Whistle Blows is a comic book that tells stories about everyday life. It takes things that have happened to these people throughout the day and makes them seem funny. There are a lot of different characters in this book. The main characters are Simmons, Lester McCray, Dirty Danny, Hawkeye, and Quincy. Simmons is just a guy that everyone seems to hate. Wherever he...
March 2012
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American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
1. Georgia Edwards
2. This book is composed of three different stories throughout. The main character of the book is an American born Chinese teenage boy called Jin Wang, who struggles to become comfortable with his culture. Jin is the only Chinese American at his school, and the only boy he becomes friends with is a new Asian boy from Taiwan named Wei-Chen. Within Jin’s story, there is a girl...
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A. Howl B. Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker
Quinn Hamilton
2. Howl is one the greatest graphic poems of all time. This novel is based on the “beat” era in the 1950’s. It is a very explicit book pertaining to the outcasts of America and a new wave of artist, musicians, hippies, and bums living the rugged, disconnected life on the street. There is three parts to this Novel, first part is called “who”, second part...
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A) Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu; B) Junko Mizuno
1) Ashley Ek
2) Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu is from a manga series which is a Japanese word for “comics/cartoons”. The book is one long story of the journey of a little fluffball named Pelu but in each chapter, a new character gets introduced into his life, and the previous one is history. Pelu is from the planet of Princess Kotobuki. He is the only male on his planet, besides a big...
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It's a Good Life, If you Don't Weaken. By Seth
1) Provide YOUR name.
KIA GROYA
2) Provide a synopsis—a brief summary of what happens in the story.
My book follows the life of Seth, who also is the author, so it is him writing about a part of his life. It is a very interesting read because it doesn’t only tell a story about his life, it gives you an insight into his thoughts and feelings, he shares with you what he thinks not just what others...
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Love and Rockets- Los Bros Hernandez
1) Miranda Castillo
2) The story within my graphic novel takes place at night. The plot itself is a bit confusing and mysterious, but this is the summary i got from it. In the beginning, you see a woman sitting in her a car parked on the railroad tracks and she is crying. It goes on to talk about someone or something name Atoma. The woman is upset because she believes Atoma never loved her. She...
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Meat Cake by Dame Darcy
1. Devon Bamfield
2. This novel is a compilation of short stories. The author says her comics are based on the lives that her and her friends lead, however she says she twisted the stories into a more idealistic way. You can really see this theme come out in her stories. The comics themselves are filled with oodles of fantastic and strange characters many of which resemble something you would see...
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I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt
Rachel Bowen
I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt is a graphic novel that is somewhat confusing to grasp. Hanawalt doesn’t include a specific story line, which made me wonder what she was thinking and wanted to get across. She has this imagination that just doesn’t end. It’s almost as if she thinks of the most repulsive things possible and includes them in this adult graphic novel to appear as a...
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Tales Designed To Thrizzle V.1 - Micheal Kupperman
Brian Jackson
In this story book the author went all over the place with different types of comics that each had their own unique story. There were things like advertisements for people to come chop of a males penis, to fictional history of sex holes and sex blimps. Throughout the book reoccurring characters would show up like, snake and bacon also another recurring character was cousin grandpa...
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The Book of Mr. Natural By R.Crumb
1. Robert Lee Stih
2. A summary of the story is there is a man named Mr. Natural, he is said to be psychic because he can read what people are thinking and feeling. Mr. Natural meets with a man named Flankey Foont, He is a young man that lives in the city of San Francisco and he looks to Mr. Natural for advice about his problems. Throughout the book Mr. Natural plays pranks on Flankey that make...
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Monsters by Ken Dahl
1. Taylor Wattles
2. Ken Dahl’s graphic novel Monsters is a semi-autobiography about his life and relationships. The main topic of this provocative novel is herpes and not only how effected him and his partner but also how herpes effects about 75% of American adults. This novel doesn’t just educate the reader about the Herpes Simplex Virus but it also interacts with the thoughts and feelings of...
