The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel

Always a fan of Raina Telgemeier and this book continued to bring so much joy into our house. My daughter devoured this book and has already reread it several times. As an added note, if you ever get a chance to see her in person, 10/10 experience.

Absolute awesome book. Great for children who struggle on focusing on just reading. This comic book was an exciting journey for our book club. It has many lessons and the main character undergoes many challenges that children face in present day! Loved this book so much that I had to buy 20 copies for all the summer camp children!

My grandson who recently started reading loves this book. It is well written and fun for sure

It's a great book for kids who want learn how to write cartoons. I took off one star because I didn't realize that this was more of an instructional book than an actual, reading-for-fun book. However, it's really informative and easy to read, and it makes me want to draw a comic!

Whether you are a kid or an adult, if you believe in the undeniable power of sequential art to transform lives, this book will strengthen the very foundations of your faith for the future of comics.There's no better way of describing this book than calling it the love child of Raina Telgemier's "Smile" and Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics."Even though many of the complex ideas shared by Scott McCloud are found in this book, rather than calling this book a simplification of said ideas, I would call it an optimization.This book understands that in order for sequential art to survive in the era of generative "AI" authors need to lead through the power of education."Anyway, perfect is for robots. Mistakes are where the people are! Let's make comics for people!"-Howard, Page 201

This is an awesome book that had my 11 year old graphic novel loving but NOT “artsy” kid up the last two nights making his own comic books. So inspiring and great. I came to leave a glowing review and saw people earmarking it as inappropriate for kids, apparently due to the very chill and positive page that shows kids using their preferred pronouns with great etiquette and kindness? Wow. Yeah, if you want to raise bigoted kids who aren’t ready to accept other folks then this isn’t for you. And maybe don’t read books at all. :) even the Bible! There’s some pretty scandalous stuff in there.

The book was so good the drawings were amazing and the characters were just so good and funny the story was good and I hope that they make a part two.

This book has been a huge hit with my class. Some students already started forming their own art club after reading it. It was an instant buy for me once I saw that it was by two titans of literature. If you’re not as familiar with Scott McCloud, his Understanding Comics trilogy is essential reading for any age of comic fan.