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Jungle Out There

Eve Corbel

Lumberjanes, a smart, cute-in-a-good-way series of comics by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen (Boom! Studios), is all about kids at summer camp. These aren’t ordinary kids, which is just as well because it’s no ordinary camp. After lights-out, when they see or hear something odd (which happens most nights), Jo, Molly, April, Mal and Ripley head into the bush and bump into some scary supernatural presence—a dinosaur, a monster, a pack of three-eyed were-foxes, a force that can turn a kid to stone—and live through it. And as if that weren’t enough, they have to go back and face the wrath of Counsellor Jen. But when Jen marches them over to Rosie, the camp director, Rosie seems more interested in the magic—almost conspiratorially so—than in the broken rules. Each issue brings a new adventure and fresh other-worldly danger, which the kids meet by using what they’ve got: one girl is a whiz at anagrams, a little fellow can turn himself into a fastball, and they hang together and figure things out just like a bunch of kids at camp. All with plenty of Youch! What the junk! Gasp! Look out! Ahhhhhh!, etc., and the occasional neat little nod to a remarkable woman: “Holy bell hooks!”; “Where the Phillis Wheatley were you?”

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Eve Corbel

Eve Corbel is a writer, illustrator, cartoonist, mom and grandma. Her writing and artwork have been published in numerous anthologies and periodicals, including Geist.

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