My First Anime I still remember the first anime I ever saw. I was nine years old and had just turned on the television to watch some cartoons before school. While channel surfing that morning, I came across a cartoon that was unlike any I had ever seen before. It …
Janet: She’s anorexic. I’m not impressed. Unless that’s what the story’s about. In which case it is acceptable. Yash: This looks interesting. Despite the real person being pictured on the cover, I actually am intrigued. If I were in the mood for depressing real life stuff (rather than depressing fantasy …
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It’s their getaway, their refuge. Rosie’s friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose’s mom and dad won’t stop fighting, and when Rose …
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! It is rare that any book reduces me to incoherent fangirl-ishness, but Rachel Hartman’s Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming does, most thoroughly, and I had to get that out of my system before proceeding. Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming is the collected issues (7-12) of Amy Unbounded. Each chapter has its …
So last week Stephie regaled you with short reviews of the graphic novels she has read and I thought that I would do the same thing today. Short reviews that hopefully manage to express the flavour of the graphic novel in a concise, helpful manner (snerk). Anyway. On to the …
Yash: I would like to meet J. K. Rowling some day and then demand the script for a BBC Marauders TV show. I would like to also meet Terry Pratchett, but unfortunately, that seems even less likely than seeing J. K. Rowling talk. I want to learn, in detail, every …
I am pleased to present Kazu Kibuishi! The first works by Kazu that I read were the Amulet series recommended to me by a librarian friend of mine. I have to say, the premise (thus far) is a standard fantasy portal quest. Family goes through a door and enters another world (and …
Janet: Is anyone else reminded of woven cloth? Anyway, colour scheme, feather quill, readable font – I’d read the back. Yash: Wow. Okay. That is a ridiculously pretty cover. The colours are hypnotizing and the font is gorgeous. I would lean around Janet as she read the back and try …
Leia Weathington’s sword-and-sorcery epic The Legend of Bold Riley is illustrated by Leia and a host of talented artists. “Who is Bold Riley?” you might ask. She has hunted the wildest game and dallied with countless beautiful girls, but still longs to know the world beyond the city walls. Princess Rilavashana SanParite, …
Thank you very much to the librarians of the Education Library at UBC (the Nevile Scarfe Building) who last year chose the theme of comics and graphic novels for one of their monthly table displays. It is due to their activity that I stumbled across Zita on one of my …
