The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden

Mike Mignola’s Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire reads like a found object from a ruined twentieth century: a book that is equal parts trench-mud odyssey, moral fable, and Gothic reliquary. Conceived by Mignola and written with Christopher Golden, it was published as an illustrated novel in 2007 and later expanded into … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden

Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s Joe Golem and the Drowning City announces itself as many things at once: an illustrated novel, a pastiche of pulp detective fiction, a piece of dark folklore, and a careful exercise in atmosphere. Published as an illustrated novel in 2012, it is a collaborative hybrid in which Mignola’s visual imagination … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden