Showing posts with label Graphic Novel/Comic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graphic Novel/Comic. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2015

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow

From chapters.ca:
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer - a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Primates The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani

From chapters.ca:
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology - and to our own understanding of ourselves. Tackling Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas in turn, and covering the highlights of their respective careers, Primates is an accessible, entertaining, and informative look at the field of primatology and at the lives of three of the most remarkable women scientists of the twentieth century. Thanks to the charming and inviting illustrations by Maris Wicks, this is a nonfiction graphic novel with broad appeal.

Thursday, February 05, 2015

Kung Pow Chicken #4 - Heroes on the Side by Cyndi Marko

From chapters.ca:
Gordon Blue's birdy senses are tingling like never before in this fourth book in the series. The Blue family travels to New Yolk City on vacation. While in the Big Egg, Egg Drop goes to the Annual Sidekicks Meeting. With all of the world's sidekicks in one basket, bad guy Chickenfinger and his Dirty Dozen Bad Eggs chicknap the sidekicks. Kung Pow Chicken will have to save the doomed sidekicks fast — the egg timer is ticking!

Friday, January 30, 2015

Kung Pow Chicken #3 - The Birdy Snatchers by Cyndi Marko

From chapters.ca:
In the third book in this full-colour series, Gordon's birdy senses are tingling like crazy! All over the city of Fowladelphia, chickens are acting strangely. Evil villain Birdbrain has been snatching citizens and putting zombie-like clones in their places. Kung Pow Chicken is hot on Birdbrain's tail feathers — that is, until an army of free-range zombie clones birdy-snatches him! What'
s a superhero to do?

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Kung Pow Chicken #2 - Bok! Bok! Boom! by Cyndi Marko

From chapters.ca:
In the second book in this full-colour series, Gordon Blue's mom drags him to a night at the opera. The show turns fowl though when its star singer is chicknapped! The evil Bantam plans to turn the singer's super-high voice into a supersonic weapon. It's up to Kung Pow Chicken to rescue her in time! Filled with humour and action-packed, this book will keep kids turning the pages!

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Lila and Ecco’s Do-it-Yourself Comics Club by Willow Dawson

From chapters.ca:
Twelve- year- olds Lila and Ecco are obsessed with comics. Every summer, they dress up as their favorite characters to attend the local comic book convention. This year, after they stumble into a workshop of comics creators, Lila and Ecco come to an exciting realization - they can make their very own comic books! Join Lila and Ecco as they embark on their exciting and rewarding do- it- yourself adventure. Along the way, readers will see how comics can be used to share stories with their friends and say what they want to say. They'll also learn how to harness ideas and inspiration; create believable characters and stories; illustrate motion, suspense and time passing; tips and step- by- step instructions on inking, colouring, lettering, cover art and design, binding comics and much, much more.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

From chapters.ca:
The companion to Raina Telgemeier's graphic memoir, Smile. Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all. Raina uses her signature humour and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Kung Pow Chicken #1 - Let's Get Cracking by Cyndi Marko

From chapters.ca:
In this exciting full-colour series, Gordon Blue transforms into Kung Pow Chicken, an avian superhero who fights crime in the city of Fowladelphia. The first book in the series kicks off when Gordon's birdy senses lead him to a festival. Suddenly, POOF! Feathers fill the air and shivering naked chickens are everywhere. Why have all these chickens lost their feathers? Forced to wear wooly sweaters, the city itches for a hero. Kung Pow Chicken hops into his Beakmobile to save the day!

Thursday, January 08, 2015

Amulet Book 6: Escape from Lucien by Kazu Kibuishi

From chapters.ca:
Emily, Navin, and their friends continue to battle the Elf King in hopes of destroying him forever, but one of his most loyal followers, Max, isn't making it easy for them. The crew journeys to Lucien, a city that's been ravaged by the war. Emily has more enemies there than she realizes — and it'll take everything she's got to get herself and her friends out of the city alive.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Bird and Squirrel on the Run! by James Burks

From chapters.ca:
Bird and Squirrel outwit Cat and become best friends in this zany road-trip adventure. Bird is a happy-go-lucky bundle of energy. Squirrel is a cautious collector of acorns. But when Squirrel loses his winter stash saving Bird from Cat, the duo have to go where the weather is warm and food is plentiful! So it's south or bust in this hilarious graphic novel about two unlikely friends on a road-trip adventure.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Shoplifter by Michael Cho

From chapters.ca:
Corrina Park used to have big plans. Studying English literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the idealized life of an author. But she’s been working at the same advertising agency for the past five years and the only thing she’s written is copy. Corrina knows there must be more to life, but she faces the same question as does everyone in her generation: how to find it?

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Witch and Wizard Volume 2: Operation Zero by James Patterson and Dara Naraghi, illustrated by Victor Santos

From chapters.ca:
Whit and Wisty get the shock of their lives when a member of the New Order's inner circle, The One Who Bans Books, contacts them with a clandestine proposal: he wants their help in removing The One Who Is The One from power! He confesses to having grown disgusted with the N.O., and reveals that he's aware of an ancient book of the occult that holds a spell for stripping an individual of all their magic. Unfortunately, the book is in a heavily-guarded N.O. bunker that's shielded against magic portals from Shadowland. But more importantly, can the Allgood siblings even trust this man who is willing to commit treason, or is his offer just an elaborate trap?

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Guinea Pi Pet Shop Private Eye #4: Fish You Were Here by Collleen AF Venable, illustrated by Stephanie Yue

From chapters.ca:
Mr. Venezi has finally found an assistant to help in the pet shop. At first Viola seems so perfect that even Sasspants approves of her and does her job so well that Mr. V hardly needs to be there. In fact, one day, Mr. V doesn't come back at all! Has Mr. V really given the pet shop to the villainous Viola? Or is some other mystery afoot?

Monday, September 29, 2014

Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring by Stefan Petrucha, illustrated by Rick Parker

From chapters.ca:
Following the killing of their mentor Dumb-as-a-door by the seemingly traitorous barista Frappe, Harry Potty, Don Measley and Whiny Stranger must find a way to defeat the nose-less dark lord Value-Mart (He-Whose-Prices-Can't-Be-Beat) and his followers, the Odor Eaters in order to avenge the death of Harry Potty's parents and bring balance to the world of magic.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Flight vol 4

From Publishers Weekly:
A full-colour graphic anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field, FLIGHT, Volume Four is the newest addition to a great success story in graphic novel publishing. Since 2004, when the first volume of Flight burst on the scene, the publication of subsequent volumes has become a highly anticipated annual event. Artists are constantly contacting Kibuishi (the editor of the Flight volumes and himself a contributor), asking to be included in the next volume of Flight. So it's no wonder Flight has ascended so rapidly in the graphic novel universe, becoming a fan favourite and developing a rabid following. Each contributor's story in the anthology represents a labor of love, and that fact shines through in the overall quality of the series. "With truly stellar art from masters of the field, this fantasy anthology is a must for comics connoisseurs and a delight to readers who like pretty stories."

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Guinea PIG vol 6: Going Going Dragon! by Colleen A. F. Venable

From chapters.ca:
Sasspants, Hamisher, and company have never been so raucous at the Mr. Venezi's Pets And Stuff pet supplies shop. This time, there's scuba-diving in the fish tank with the Steves, what appears to be a dragon hiding behind the counter, and Mr. Venezi's insistence that the store has been robbed of exactly sixty-four dollars and forty-two cents. With Sasspants and Hamisher doing the plotting this time, a happily-ever-after is guaranteed for the animals, their humans, and that nice lady from the bookshop next door whom Mr. Venezi has always been too shy to ask on a date.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas by Philippe Coudray

From chapters.ca:
Benjamin Bear walks on water, rides a square-wheeled bicycle, and wears a fishbowl helmet under the sea. Benjamin Bear walks on water, rides a square-wheeled bicycle, and wears a fishbowl helmet under the sea. Told in the form of one-page comic strips, each of Benjamin's adventures is a hilarious gag, a puzzle, a mini physics lesson, or sometimes all three.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Three Thieves Book 5: Pirates of the Silver Coast by Scott Chantler

From chapters.ca:
In this fifth book in the Three Thieves series of graphic novels, Dessa convinces the smuggler Quinn to transport her, Topper, and Fisk to the mysterious Island of Astaroth. Dessa is convinced her twin brother, Jared, who was abducted years earlier by the Queen's chamberlain, is being held on the island. However, soon after setting sail, they are overtaken by a pirate ship commanded by the King of Pirates, whom they discover is interested in only one treasure on board: Dessa's map to the location of Astaroth! Will Dessa's plan for finding her brother be thwarted?

Monday, August 25, 2014

Three Thieves Book 4: The King's Dragon by Scott Chantler

From chapters.ca:
In this fourth installment of the Three Thieves fantasy adventure series of graphic novels, Captain Drake's quest to find Dessa, Topper and Fisk has led him to a remote healing monastery where he believes they have gone to tend Dessa's broken leg. While pursuing his quarry, Captain Drake finds himself beset by memories of his early days as a young and idealistic knight in King Roderick's service. Featured as flashbacks, these memories provide readers with important clues to the unfolding story, such as that the King's Dragons were more loyal to the palace chamberlain, Maarten Greyfalcon, than to the king; that there was a mysterious letter written by the king, meant to be read only at his death, which had disappeared; and that Drake had uncovered a plot to murder the king. The tale moves forward in both the present and the past, with the flashbacks drawn in black-and-white to differentiate the time. As with the very successful and well-reviewed first three titles by award-winning cartoonist Scott Chantler, high action propels this fast-moving story forward, with sword fighting, chase scenes and a bold and daring narrow escape, while intricate plotlines full of intrigue and suspense (and occasional witty banter) keep the reader guessing. The art is dramatic and evocative, offering emotional close-ups, telling details and believable backdrops. This is a wonderful graphic novel that will engage reluctant readers, providing a painless way to dive into literature and learn about plot, character, setting and other literary devices.

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Who Will Comfort Toffle? A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson

From chapters.ca:
This is the timeless, magical tale of the wistful wallflower, Toffle - too shy to speak to anyone and too fearful of the world he is watching from afar. Lonely and sad, Toffle runs away from home and watches the magical cast of Moominvalley celebrate and enjoy life.
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