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Title (top banner): Bea Wolf
[This is an advertisement for the graphic novel "Bea Wolf," laid out as a tall column of illustrated character portraits interspersed with review blurbs.]
Review blurb 1:
"Readers will wish they could escape their plastic swords to Beowulf and the sensitive wild childhoods everywhere."
— School Library Journal, starred review
Review blurb 2:
"This is true bardic glory, a wild embrace of absurdity and wit with exaggerated language used for maximum impact."
— The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
Review blurb 3:
"Weinersmith's richly evocative news of phrase run the gamut from fulsome to heart-rending and maintain the flavor of the original without begging the pace down amid the heavings. Boulet's illustrations imbue the shenanigans with gleeful energy and a touch of dark absurdity that children, seeing their own fears and triumphs reflected, will delight in."
— Kirkus, starred review
Review blurb 4:
"[Bea Wolf is] a truly fresh, inventive comic that privileges childhood's insular sensibilities alongside an unsettling truth: 'Time lingers for no kid.'"
— Publisher's Weekly, starred review
[Book cover shown:] Bea Wolf
Review blurb 5:
"Zach Weinersmith's metered language is a fun, fun beat that pays homage to the strong beat and distinctive alliteration of the original poem."
— The New York Times
AVAILABLE NOW
Click for more info
Votey:
(SORRY ABOUT THE AD BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE IT'S THE BEST THING I'VE EVER WRITTEN SO PLEASE GO BUY IT)
[This is an advertisement for the graphic novel "Bea Wolf," laid out as a tall column of illustrated character portraits interspersed with review blurbs.]
Review blurb 1:
"Readers will wish they could escape their plastic swords to Beowulf and the sensitive wild childhoods everywhere."
— School Library Journal, starred review
Review blurb 2:
"This is true bardic glory, a wild embrace of absurdity and wit with exaggerated language used for maximum impact."
— The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
Review blurb 3:
"Weinersmith's richly evocative news of phrase run the gamut from fulsome to heart-rending and maintain the flavor of the original without begging the pace down amid the heavings. Boulet's illustrations imbue the shenanigans with gleeful energy and a touch of dark absurdity that children, seeing their own fears and triumphs reflected, will delight in."
— Kirkus, starred review
Review blurb 4:
"[Bea Wolf is] a truly fresh, inventive comic that privileges childhood's insular sensibilities alongside an unsettling truth: 'Time lingers for no kid.'"
— Publisher's Weekly, starred review
[Book cover shown:] Bea Wolf
Review blurb 5:
"Zach Weinersmith's metered language is a fun, fun beat that pays homage to the strong beat and distinctive alliteration of the original poem."
— The New York Times
AVAILABLE NOW
Click for more info
Votey:
(SORRY ABOUT THE AD BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE IT'S THE BEST THING I'VE EVER WRITTEN SO PLEASE GO BUY IT)
Alt text
A tall advertisement comic promoting the graphic novel "Bea Wolf." At the top, an ornate hand-lettered title banner reads "Bea Wolf." Below it runs a vertical column of detailed black-and-white illustrations of children dressed as fierce warriors and creatures — a wide-eyed child's face, a kid wearing a bear-like hood standing beside small animal-masked companions among jagged fence spikes, a girl in profile, and a misty forest landscape — interspersed with several glowing review blurbs. The blurbs praise the book as "true bardic glory," "richly evocative," "a truly fresh, inventive comic," and note Zach Weinersmith's metered, alliterative language paying homage to the original Beowulf, with starred reviews credited to School Library Journal, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, and The New York Times. Near the bottom is a color image of the book cover (a child warrior in a golden, leafy setting) titled "Bea Wolf," followed by large text reading "AVAILABLE NOW / Click for more info." The votey panel is a hand-drawn box with text reading: "(SORRY ABOUT THE AD BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE IT'S THE BEST THING I'VE EVER WRITTEN SO PLEASE GO BUY IT)" — the cartoonist's sheepish apology for the advertisement.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.