Making Comics

This story served as my introduction to reading Batman stories in general. I’ve read The Killing Joke, but that’s more of a short aside…

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic novel by Alison Bechdel that is an in-depth exploration of her childhood and family…

Joker, written by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, tells the story of Joker being randomly released from Arkham Asylum in Gotham City, New…

Tomie is the story of an immortal girl, who seems is murdered by her classmates. Yes she is immortal, and yes she is murdered. This seems…

Chainsaw Man is a bombastic take on a shonen manga that ties together gore and simplicity with loose, unrefined, and emotional lines…

I chose to read “This One Summer” by Cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki. The book follows Rose on her annual summer stay at Awago Beach…

Comics and Cartooning

Dr. Stone Vol. 1 is a story about a group of high school students in China who are turned into stone along with the rest of humanity when…

The Rising of the Shield Hero starts off like any other Isekai anime (a genre where the main protagonist is transported to another world…

For my comic book report, I chose Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 1. The basic premise of Hellboy is that a demon toddler- a…

The comic I chose is The Chancellor and the Citadel, by Maria C. Frantz. Its story takes place at the Citadel, the only thing that remains…

The comic book I chose to analyze is “Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons” by Bill Waterson. The book has multiple…

Jason Reynolds wrote the story for A Long Way Down in collaboration with Danica Navgorodoff’s Illustrations, an emotional graphic novel…

Tillie Walden’s On a Sunbeam follows Mia through the past and present

By Kate Beaton

The Graphic Novel I decided to read and analyze was a Sonic the Hedgehog comic. It was published by Jon Goldwater and written by 19…

Herge’s Land of Black Gold is the 15th installment in his popular series The Adventures of Tintin. Herge began work on the volume just…

Cece Bell attempts to recreate her childhood experience as she struggled with being deaf and the challenges of trying to lead a life…

The Watchmen for me stood out above other graphic novels in two distinct areas. The coloring and storytelling. The story itself is…

Amulet: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi is a great story about Emily and Navin who early in the plot move to a new town due to the loss…

The comic i selected for this report is Big Trouble in Little China volume one created by John Carpenter and illustrated by Eric Powell…

Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is a long-standing fan favorite. Here we find Sakai’s “bodyguard rabbit” Miyamoto Usagi (or simply just Usagi)…

The comic book I chose to cover is Akira Himekawa’s The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, a dub off of the video game series by Nintendo…

The graphic novel I selected is Wilson by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes. The novel documents the life of a jaded middle-aged man, each…