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Any Knitters Who Like Graphic Novels?

24 January 2009, 4:35 pm. 5 Comments. Filed under Links.

linked to Hand­knit Heroes yesterday.

Imag­ine you’re a teenager, and you have some… spe­cial pow­ers. Maybe even super pow­ers. And one day, at a sleep­over, your best friend in the whole world tells you—you’re not alone. So begins the adven­ture for a cou­ple of teenagers, a sin­gle mom and yarn shop owner, and a whole bunch of hand knit­ted fun.

Hand­knit Heroes is the first graphic novel for knit­ters. Each issue fea­tures a great sto­ry­line with knit­ting super­heroes, ter­rific art­work, and a beau­ti­ful (and easy) knit­ting pattern.

I’m vastly amused, and I nei­ther knit (yet!) nor read graphic nov­els. I know that does both, though, and I fig­ure there are prob­a­bly others.

5 Comments »

  1. avatar HopeEvey. 24 January 2009, 4:54 pm

    That does look nifty :)

  2. avatar NotACat. 24 January 2009, 5:35 pm

    That’s going to be either awe­some or awful. Any hints you can give which might help me decide which?

  3. avatar cyn. 24 January 2009, 5:45 pm

    I don’t know, Phil. I’m hop­ing some­one who reads it will post a review.

  4. avatar Stephanie. 24 January 2009, 10:30 pm

    Hello! Thanks so much for mentioning/​posting the link!

    I’m biased, since I write and pub­lish Hand­knit Heroes. How­ever, reviews so far have been very pos­i­tive– both for the con­cept and for the execution.

    I link to reviews, shout-​​outs, and men­tions on the updates page of the ComicK­nits web­site: http://​www​.comick​nits​.com/​u​p​d​a​te/ if you want to go take a look– I link all men­tions as I find them, not just the pos­i­tive ones. Also, I posted a videoblog yes­ter­day giv­ing an overview of the comic book and what’s so cool about it (that’s linked from the update/​ page as well).

    It has a good sto­ry­line (my com­pletely, totally biased opin­ion), great art­work, and a really beau­ti­ful, easy-​​to-​​knit pat­tern by Erssie Major. We pub­lish 4 times a year.

  5. avatar Jonas Verliebt. 26 January 2009, 7:24 am

    Truth be told, I’m not very famil­iar with the comic book genre, so I’m hav­ing a hard time con­nect­ing with the plot or com­ing up with talk­ing points about the issue. How­ever, I will say that I am thrilled with the con­cept and the exe­cu­tion, since I think it’s a really cool way of com­bin­ing knit­ting with other hob­bies. It’s just another of the ways that knit­ting is inte­grat­ing itself with the rest of people’s cul­tural inter­ests. Who says needle­work is for grannies? Who says your knit­ting and lit­er­ary inter­ests have to be sep­a­rate? The pos­si­bil­i­ties are endless!

 

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