My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly’s website. It’s about being a judge for the San Jose library’s graphic novel contest. I was a judge in the children’s category, and I had a great time reading the submissions. Today, I attended the awards ceremony. The comic I mention as my favorite in the column, about a man who becomes a werewolf and uses it as an opportunity to study wolves, won second place. I was very pleased to be able to tell the young artist and his mother how much I enjoyed it. He told me he spent two weeks making it, and you really could see the work that went into it.
Another one of my favorites was about robbers who also loved tea parties. They encounter a blob who lures them to his home with promises of a party. “What kind of party are we having?” asks one thief when they arrive. “Are we having a tea party?” asks the other. “No, we are having your DOOM!” the blob replies. The end. I laughed so hard at that one, but, alas, it was not one of the winners.
