Preview pages from (I can’t believe I get to type his name here) Bill Watterson and John Kascht’s The Mysteries, coming October 2023.

Name: Lance

Pronouns: he/him

Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Where he’s from: a garage sale

Design notes: He has a bow!

Fun facts: He likes to read!

Book Review #46 of 2023--

Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness by Melani Sie. Rating: 4 stars.

Read on April 19th.

Before I get into the review, a quick thank you to both NetGalley and the publishers over at Andrews McMeel Publishing for allowing me access to this ARC in exchange for an honest review. The popular WebComic Milk & Mocha is now being turned into a traditionally published book. “Cheerful Milk and patient Mocha share their adorable slice-of-life adventures in this comic collection as they show how opposites really do attract.” I feel like I’ve seen these characters in passing on the internet but now there’s a whole book about them. Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness comes out on July 25th and is available for preorder now.

I’ll keep this short and sweet since Milk, Mocha, and their dinosaur friend are all short and sweet. This was a super fast comic. It took me...10? 15 minutes to read? There was little text so it was quick and easy to get through. Some of the sweetest moments are in here. And there were so many times I wanted to show a page to my husband but since he’s at work I’ll just have to point them out to him later. I love adding in a comic or something from NetGalley while I’m reading something with a little more oomph to it. I’m currently half way through Jade City so this was great for breaking that up for me and pulling me into a much lighter headspace. Just completely adorable.

Duas novidades da Nuvem de Letras

Duas novidades da Nuvem de Letras #loudemcasa #danasimpson #biaeounicornio #bandasdesenhadas

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Lakes Festival Focus: Bex Ollerton (aka Schnumn)

Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology debuts next month. We catch up with the project's creator...

As the countdown continues toward the Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month in Bowness-on-Windermere (14th – 16th October 2022), here’s another in a series of interviews with some of the guests – a quick chat with comic creator Bex Ollerton, aka Schnumn. Bex Ollerton creates introspective comics about mental health, neurodiversity and the general struggles of being a human being in…

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Review: Bad Dreams in the Night

Writer/Artist: Adam EllisPublisher: Andrews McMeel PublishingReleased: April 16, 2024Received: NetGalleyFind it on Goodreads | More Graphic Novel Reviews Summary: Bad Dreams in the Night is a collection of short stories from the mind of Adam Ellis. More importantly, they’re all horror stories. So get ready for chills and thrills because Adam Ellis is not afraid to deliver on that front. This…

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The Full Line-Up of Free Comic Book Day 2024 Comics Revealed

The Full Line-Up of Free Comic Book Day 2024 Comics Revealed #comics #comicbooks #fcbd #fcbd2024 #fcbd24

The Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) Retailer Selection Committee has selected forty-eight comic book titles for the industry’s most anticipated annual event to take place on Saturday, May 4, at participating comic shops worldwide. A committee of comic shop retailers chose forty-eight titles to be available on Free Comic Book Day: twelve Gold Sponsor comics and thirty-six Silver Sponsor comics that…

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The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht

The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht. Andrews McMeel, 2023. 9781524884949 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Hardcover graphic novel What did you like about the book? Bill Watterson and John Kascht teamed up to create a most mesmerizing book of artwork that illustrates this mysterious fable. The illustrations appear more like photographs in black and white…

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The Out Side: Trans and Non-Binary Comics

The Out Side: Trans & Non-Binary Comics Review- One Of The Best Books to Combat Hate.

#LGBTQIA #GraphicNovels #TheOutSideTransNonbinaryComics

A Special Thanks To Andrews McMeel Publishing and Net Galley For The Opportunity To Review This Title.

We’re taking a brief break from the usual reviews for a collection of stories about real-life heroes, ones that want to be their true selves and dare to pursue their dreams in the face of adversity and in the wake of policies made to exclude them from society or make them feel like an outcast.…

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The Boy with Wings by Lenny Henry, illustrated by Keenon Ferrell

The Boy with Wings by Lenny Henry, illustrated by Keenon Ferrell. Andrews McMeel, 2023. 9781524884710 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 2.5 Format: Hardcover Genre:  Fantasy/science fiction What did you like about the book? Tunde, who is twelve, is secure in the love of his family and his band of friends. He knows he was adopted, and harbors no great desire to figure out his…

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Out this week: Peculiar Woods (Andrews McMeel, $12.99):

A kid moves to a strange new town where he discovers he can talk to inanimate objects, so he teams up with his blanket, a chair and some chess pieces to discover the mystery of a flooded city. It’s by Andres J Colmenares, and the villain just might be a talking washing machine. 

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

Y’all hear about Scott Adams’s racist tirade? If you haven’t, bottom line is he called black Americans a “hate group” and suggested white Americans “get the hell away from black people”.

Newspapers are starting to drop his comic from their pages, and I’m really hoping his publisher, Andrews McMeel, also drops him. It was only a matter of time before his bigotry ended his career.

Call Me Athena by Colby Cedar Smith | Mini-Book Review

Call Me Athena by Colby Cedar Smith | Mini-Book Review

Title: Call Me Athena Author: Colby Cedar Smith Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Published Date: August 17th, 2021 Genre: Historical Fiction, YA, coming of age Source: Library Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Goodreads Summary: This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s…

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Book Review: The Music Was Just Getting Good by Alicia Cook

Book Review: The Music Was Just Getting Good by Alicia Cook #BookReview #BookTwt #NetGalley #Poetry #Writing #Books

The Music Was Just Getting Good by Alicia Cook Thank you NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the chance to read and review ‘The Music Was Just Getting Good’ by Alicia Cook. The Music Was Just Getting Good is Alicia Cook’s fourth and final installation in her mixtape series. She does seem to have her devotees; her books average around 3.9 stars on Goodreads, based on 600 to 5300+…

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