Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Three: The Arrival
Welcome! You have just arrived at day three of The Book Wars’ “Five Days with Shaun Tan.” These past two days we have looked at two picture books with characters […]
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Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day One: The Lost Thing
“So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you’d laugh yourself unconscious, others so […]
More Beautiful and Beastly Picturebooks
There are so many picturebooks which retell, or, to be more accurate, re-illustrate (the text varies comparatively little in rather a lot of versions) the story of “Beauty and the […]
Beauty and the Beast in Picturebooks
One of the best-known fairy tales, “Beauty and the Beast” has been reproduced hundreds, perhaps thousands, of times in various media: oral narratives, written form, in plays, musicals, films, photographs, […]
Petra Pan: The Girl Who Refused to Grow Up
I thought this was an interesting twist on Peter Pan. I don’t know what I think about a POC being a villainous character but since it is a position of […]
Interlude: The Hunger Games, as drawn by Noelle Stevenson
This is a brief interlude from all the gloom and doom parts of dystopia. (Sorry, Steph!) The brilliant Noelle Stevenson, also known as Gingerhaze, creator of the Nimona webcomic (more […]
Clive Barker’s Abarat: An Introduction
Clive Barker is a well-known name among those better acquainted with horror fiction. He counts several graphic novels in his bibliography and is much accomplished both as a writer and […]
Zombie Princesses: An Art Aside
As a segue to our Horror month, I have for you, Disney Princesses in their zombie forms. Personally, I hate zombies but some people love them. The following artwork was […]
European Fairytales in Korean Dresses
This very talented artist, Obsidian, illustrated four fairytales which are distinctly European in origin (though some of them certainly may have Korean equivalents) wearing traditional Korean clothes. Enjoy the vibrance.
On Tricksters: Ananse and Kanchil
A trickster is just what a storymaker needs: a character who makes things happen. – “Author’s Note”, Ananse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale, retold by Tololwa M. Mollel and illustrated by Andrew […]
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