The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy’s Great Idea | Novel: Ann M. Martin / Scholastic | Graphic Novel: Raina Telgemeier / Graphix Kristy Thomas has a great idea — she and her friends can work together to give beleaguered a one-stop-shop for baby sitters. That’s how the Baby-Sitters Club is formed, with Mary-Anne, Claudia, and the new [...]
About Angela Eastman
Angela is a creative writing student at Lesley University, where she's learning to write books for kids. She started reading manga in high school when she found Cardcaptor Sakura, and it's all gone downhill from there. Angela is an unrepentant bookworm, and aside from graphic novels loves children's stories, thick fantasy novels, classic literature and anything by Paulo Coelho. You can find more of Angela's writing on the Graphic Novels/Comics section of Suite101.com, where she is the Topic Editor, at The Fandom Post, and on her blog. You can also find her on Twitter.
Comic Conversion: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
April 7, 2012 by 10 Comments
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz| Novel: L. Frank Baum / W. W. Norton Norton & Company | Graphic Novel: Eric Shanower and Skottie Young / Marvel Comics When Dorothy’s dog, Toto, hides under a bed during a twister, she follows in an attempt to save him. As a result, both are trapped in the house [...]
Comic Conversion: Soulless
March 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
Soulless | Novel: Gail Carriger / Orbit Books | Manga: REM / Yen Press Twenty-five-year-old spinster Alexia Tarabotti has a a few problems. First, she’s a spinster, and being a half-Italian in Victorian England isn’t helping. Second, she’s a preternatural, a human without a soul. And third, a vampire has just died–and it might be [...]
Comic Conversion: Pride and Prejudice
February 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
Pride and Prejudice | Novel: Jane Austen / Norton Critical Editions | Graphic Novel: Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus / Marvel Comics Elizabeth Bennet is happy to see her older sister Jane falling in love with Mr. Bingley, a rich young man who has just taken up residence in a nearby home. Unfortunately, in order [...]
Comic Conversion: The Alchemist
January 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
The Alchemist | Novel: Paulo Coelho / HarperSanFransisco | Graphic Novel: Derek Ruiz and Daniel Sampere / HarperOne Santiago, a shepherd from Andalusia, has had the same dream twice, in which an angel brings him to the pyramids of Egypt and tells him that this is where he will find his treasure. Just as Santiago [...]
Comic Conversion: Witch & Wizard
December 9, 2011 by 8 Comments
Witch & Wizard | Novel: James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet / Grand Central Publishing | Manga: Svetlana Chmakova / Yen Press One minute Whit Allgood is falling asleep in front of the TV, the next an army is breaking down his door, brandishing guns and dragging his sister Wisty out of her bed. But the [...]
