March 2010
Incarceron is a self-sustaining prison with a mind of its own. One prisoner, 17-year-old Finn, doesn’t believe he belongs. As Finn navigates the dangerous world of Incarceron, he finds help in the most unsuspecting person --- the daughter of the Warden. Escape seems impossible, however, because Incarceron is always watching!
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March 5, 2010, 724 voters
I hear it’s going to be sunny this weekend. I am holding the weatherman/weatherperson to this. I think in my next life I am going to be the weatherman/weatherperson. You can say it’s going to rain and an entire city of people will carry umbrellas; you can be consistently wrong and not get fired.
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Welcome to the newest “issue” of GraphicNovelReporter.com. (Since I came up professionally in the world of magazines, I still tend to think of every update to the site as an “issue”—it’s a tough habit to break; for that matter, I still call all my CDs “albums”). Anyway, whatever we choose to call it, I’m happy to welcome you to it, because I have to say…this update has been one of my favorites since the site began. It incorporates such a wide-reaching scope of articles, I think, and they’re all in some way important to my love of this format. I’ll explain.
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As comics reach an ever-growing audience—and as styles from around the world, like manga and manhua, permeate the American marketplace and help shatter cultural boundaries—it seemed like an important time to look at where comics have come from and where they’re going, in terms of diversity. It seemed a perfect time to open a dialogue, even a small one, dealing with issues related to race in comics, specifically how comics appealed, portrayed, and were created by the black community.
It’s been 30 years since the Los Angeles Times began hosting their own set of awards, and 14 since the advent of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. This year, both take an important step forward in terms of comics and graphic-novel coverage.
Lisa Coxson is a ninth-grade English teacher at Bronx School of Law and Finance in Bronx, New York. Her favorite members of the Justice League were the Wonder Twins. Her favorite cartoon is a tie between Pinky and the Brain and the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Her favorite graphic novel is currently American Born Chinese.
March 3, 2010
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Rich Young
Do you remember your first comic book or graphic novel? If so, what was it?
It was probably an old Disney Uncle Scrooge. I had an uncle who had a bunch of those I remember reading. I was also always into the Sunday funnies…so Peanuts was big for me. Those were some of the earliest memories.
What do you love about the graphic novel as a format for storytelling?
