Remember when I was telling you about that kid in my book group that kept asking for new children’s books a decade ago? You know that I was able to hand them? Hamster and Cheese, an adorable early comic series about a guinea pig in a pet store who becomes a P.I. And it may explain why she secretly goes out every night. It isn’t until she starts paying attention that Katie begins to suspect that there’s more to Ms. But Katie’s good with cats, even couch-stealing, jet engine shopping, pizza loving cats. Lang owns 217 cats and that they all are mad geniuses at something. Lang in Apartment 5B hires Katie for $30 an hour to watch her cats. Most of her hires don’t go well until nice Ms.
Determined to do something about it, Katie decides to advertise her skills at odd jobs (for a price) in her apartment complex so as earn money for at least a week of camp. Katie is sad beyond words when her best friend Bethany is heading out for the summer while she’s stuck home in NYC. What’s worse than not being able to afford summer camp? Watching your friends go instead. Created by the crackerjack team of Venable and Yue, this daring duo introduces the world to small, furry New York City superheroes and the catsitter that gets caught up in the action. Katie the Catsitter? Color that one of the few. Even so, there’s a lot of whey to separate from the curds, and for every 15 comics I see, maybe one will be memorable. They try to glut the market with offerings and fail because the market for comics is un-gluttable. But today? At long last, publishers of children’s books have gotten the message. The curse of the comic is that it can take an inordinate amount of time to make, and almost no time at all to read.
As a long time comics fan, I would seek out whatever graphic novels I could find for my children’s room, but somehow it just was never enough.
Though Raina Telgemeier had come to prominence and Diary of a Wimpy Kid was already garnering fans, neither had hit the apex of their popularity quite yet. Nine times out of ten the answer was always, “Nope.” Of course there weren’t. I remember just ten years ago when I ran a children’s book club and one of the kids would come in every week, eyes brimming with hope, asking if there were any new comics in that week. It must be so comforting to be a comic loving kid these days.
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