Burnout

Author	Mariko Tamaki
ISBN	0888997531

Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensitive graphic novel of the highest literary and artistic quality, by and about young women.

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls'...

Author

Mike Carey

Jen Dik Seong, known as Dixie to her friends, well really friend (singular), is a first generation Korean American girl, who has a black belt in Hapkido - an ancient marital art. She has her first major crush, and this has left her not only distracted, but she has lost her Ki. Will she find it again?

This...

Author

Mariko Tamaki

Emiko's summer looks like this: babysit all day, hang out with her own parents at home in the evening, rinse, repeat. It's pretty dull, but the babysitting gig pays well.

But then Emiko sees a charismatic artiste called Poppy at the mall, and Poppy personally invites her to the Freak Show, held...

Author	Aaron Alexovich
ISBN	1401203736

Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! Telly Kade...

Author	Derek Kirk Kim
ISBN	1401213812

Just what the world needed: a comic where the whole message is that if you don't date the "nice guy" in high school, you'll end up alone forever and ever and wishing you'd just gone out with that nice boy who knew what your favorite muffin was and golly, he thought you were pretty!

In other words:...

Author	Sara Ryan
ISBN	1595829938

Lives intersect in the most unexpected ways when teenagers Anne and Lewis cross paths at an estate sale in sleepy Failin, Oregon. Failin was once a thriving logging community. Now the town's businesses are crumbling, its citizens bitter and disaffected. Anne and Lewis refuse to succumb to the fate...

Author

Svetlana Chmakova

It's Christie's second year at the Yatta Anime convention - and the drama continues to heat up. With her new partner-in-crime, a.k.a. artiste extraordinaire Bethany, she is again promoting her comic. Matt is also back in town, but to Christie's shock, he came with a girlfriend! Now, not only does Christie...

Author	Svetlana Chmakova
ISBN	1598161318

People say the best way to cure a crush on someone is get to know them. Will Matt and Christie's love survive their first "date"?

Now college students, Christie and Bethany are back to pimp their comic at the Yattacon, and Bethany is glowing with pride because her designs are on every T-shirt at...

Author	Antoine Revoy
ISBN	1626721831

Animus is the YA creation of Antoine Revoy, who grew up in Paris and Tokyo, loving comics from east and west. What we know is that Japan has an elaborate system of yokai (monsters, supernatural creatures), and this ghost story fits that manga category, but it also features realistic drawing. This story...

Author

Lisa Naffziger

Beck is on her way to college, thrilled at the possibilities of the next exciting chapter, barely holding it in as she clutches her childhood favorite toy in the family car with her loving dad behind the wheel. And that’s where Beck’s shared experience with the rest of her freshman class abruptly...

Author	Tasha Spillett
ISBN	1553797566

Tasha Spillett’s graphic novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, colonialism, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban...

Author	Haruko Iida
ISBN	1591829526

Mahiru is ordered to be escorted to the Moon Palace in hopes of utilizing her powers to heal the Empress, or at least so that the people of the moon may study her powers and find a way to utilize them, considering that time is running short and Oboro has taken too long to collect the Teardrops of the Moon. When...

Author	Haruko Iida
ISBN	1591827957

This great fantasy manga takes an interesting twist in this volume. Both the Lunar Race and the Dawn's Venus have young members in their groups. Could it be possible that enemies could be attracted to each other? Is it possible that young Mahiru, who is helping the Lunar Race, might also want to help fellow...

Author

D.J. Milky

I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I love anything that comes from Nightmare Before Christmas. I was very glad to it is as a review copy. It was something I wanted it without knowing I wanted. I was so excited to see that Zero got his own adventures. This is just the start of it from what...

Author	D.J. Milky
ISBN	1427858977

I received a free e-copy of Disney's Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Zero's Journey by D.J. Milky from NetGalley for my honest review.

First off, I realize this is a children's book but I love anything Tim Burton. I am also a big Art freak. I love drawing, painting, sketching and have...

Author	Joe Keatinge
ISBN	1607069601

Collects GLORY #23-34 THE ACCLAIMED APOCALYPTIC WAR SAGA COLLECTED IN ITS ENTIRETY! ROSS CAMPBELL (Wet Moon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and JOE KEATINGE (Marvel Knights: Hulk) finally collect their critically-acclaimed and brutally told saga of one warrior and her family torn apart by a millennia-old...

Author	Deborah Coates
ISBN	0446677507

In this little book
My feline wit and wisdom is
So clearly shown - so there! [Sorry, the book unfortunately got me thinking in haiku!!]

Yes, the cat expresses all his/her thoughts and demonstrates all his/her actions in haiku and most of them are instantly recognisable to the cat owner...

Author	Haruko Iida
ISBN	1591827949

This wonderful fantasy manga continues to entertain in volume three. In this volume we are introduced to a new group of characters. It's a group that won't bring any joy to the Lunar Race, because their purpose is to destroy the Lunar Race, and get their hands on the Teardrops of the Moon. They are Dawn's...