IDW - TOP SHELF
JOHNNY BOO HC #12
SILLY BLIZZARD
(W) James Kochalka (A) James Kochalka (CA) James Kochalka
James Kochalka's beloved Eisner-award-winning series takes a wintry turn as Johnny Boo and Squiggle discover the delights of eating snow-and the importance of staying warm! Kids love to eat snow! It looks a lot like ice cream... hey, maybe it really IS ice cream! Johnny Boo and Squiggle are excited to find out, unless the Ice Cream Monster eats it all first. Armed with his gigantic and mighty Ice Cream Fork, he seems unstoppable... until all that cold snow in his tummy knocks him down for the count. Can Johnny Boo and Squiggle warm up their frozen frenemy with mittens from their secret mitten box? Or will they get lost in the silly blizzard forever? Don't worry, this snow day is guaranteed a very happy ending! PRAISE FOR JAMES KOCHALKA'S JOHNNY BOO SERIES: "Fun for kids of all ages. It's AWESOME!" -- DJ Lance Rock, host of Nick Jr's Yo Gabba Gabba! "Perfect for beginning readers." -- Publishers Weekly "Johnny Boo is sweet without being sugary and comfortably familiar yet fresh on every page... the quintessential small gem." -- School Library Journal "Kochalka's simple line drawings and bright crayon colors stand out in this sweet, silly graphic novel. Children will easily identify with Johnny Boo's sense of fun." - Booklist "A playfully wacky, colorful graphic novel... Highly recommended." - Children's Bookwatch "Quirky, cute, imaginative, and endlessly re-readable." - GeekDad
PARENTHESIS GN
(W) Elodie Durand (A) Elodie Durand (CA) Elodie Durand
A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author's experience with tumor-related epilepsy-losing herself, and finding herself again. Julie is barely out of her teens when a tumor begins pressing on her brain, ushering in a new world of seizures, memory gaps, and loss of self. Suddenly, the sentence of her normal life has been interrupted by the opening of a parenthesis that may never close. Based on the real experiences of cartoonist Élodie Durand, Parenthesis is a gripping testament of struggle, fragility, acceptance, and transformation which was deservedly awarded the Revelation Prize of the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Pull Quotes: "In this graphic memoir, Élodie Durand tries to reconnect the threads of her memory... the resulting testimony is touching in all its simplicity... the sober and refined drawings accompany her story with a great deal of accuracy and sensitivity... the inclusion of sketches made during Durand's convalescence adds even more strength and emotion to her black and white artistry." - BD Gest'