Comics Worth Reading

Jules Scheele has adapted Virginia Woolf’s novel into Orlando: A Graphic Novel Biography, out now from Avery Hill Publishing, with art assists by Garry Mac.

I’ve noticed a flock of interactive, solve-it-yourself mysteries, so I thought I’d tell you about them.

(This post is likely only of interest to people who find traditional, historical English restaurants interesting and/or Sherlockians.)

Millie of the Manor manages to combine three well-respected graphic novel genres — mystery, making friends, and mental health (specifically, coping with anxiety) — successfully.

I wondered about having a dinosaur (and a Victorian-dressed one, at that) narrate a volume on computers, but as soon as Science Comics: Computers: How Digital Hardware Works opened with her talking about this being her second choice (the first was the Sci…

Consider the Consequences, originally published in 1930, is thought to be the first gamebook, a genre which you might know better as a “choose your own path” book, or “a choice-based branching narrative”, or interactive fiction.

Kitten-Kin‘s 181-post Sherlock fancomic, The Science of Affection, is now available in print-on-demand paperback.

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Sherlock Roach and the Case of the Crunchy Crumb is billed as a chapter book, but it’s a comic.

Holmes: Undead #1 crowdfunded successfully earlier this year.

Drawing From Your Memory by Shiki Kawabata combines the “kids learn to make manga” genre with an “I went back in time to save a classmate” story.

You Might As Well Be the One by Megumu Seto tells a classic romance storyline well.

The pass, in restaurant terms, is where dishes wait to go out together, where a final inspection is done or a garnish or finishing touch added.

This chunky biography by José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller (translated by Edward Gauvin) from SelfMadeHero tells the life of Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker.

Rea Irvin’s The Smythes is a prestige hardcover from New York Review Comics reprinting a Sunday comic from the 1930s.

Sherlockians make the best recommendations.