"The perfect baptism gift for an eight-year-old boy"

Shelah Mastny Miner and her eight-year-old son Isaac review iPlates Volume 1 on Shelah Books It.

Our favorite parts:

From Isaac: "Wow. That was cool!"

From Shelah:  "A story a prepubescent boy would love, with plenty of blood and piles of arms and made up Nephite curse replacements."

"As entertainment/a gentle push toward doctrinal stories for a Mormon? I think it succeeds"

Read the whole review here.

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iPlates in Costco

Our publisher, Leicester Bay Books, just signed a contract to sell iPlates--Volume 1 through Costco. Stephen and Jett may even be signing books at a Utah Costco this December. Stay tuned to find out when and where!

Even Adults Like It

Theric Jepson, editor of the award-winning "Comics Issue" of Sunstone, and Monsters and Mormons, gives iPlates a thoughtful review.

Some highlights:

And if the name Zeniff doesn’t immediately bring to mind a hundred adaptations, that’s exactly why I think Zeniff was a great plan.

May I just say that I enjoyed the frontispieces? Based on old pulp images, silent-movie posters, greek vases, midcentury American high-school yearbook covers—these were fun for the adults in the house. May we see many more volumes in the future.

Read the whole review here.

The Ogden Standard-Examiner

Cal Grondahl--Ogden Standard-Examiner

Doug Gibson at the Ogden Standard-Examiner gave iPlates: Volume I a glowing review.

Our favorite part: "Not only does Joe [Doug's seven-year-old son] insist I read a chapter of Volume 1 to him each night, he then grabs the slim comic book and reads the whole shebang himself."

Read the whole review here.

And check out Cal Grondahl's cartoon, imagining the missionary possibilities of Book of Mormon comic books.

Book of Mormon Girl Likes Book of Mormon Comic

The Book of Mormon Girl author Joanna Brooks has this to say about iPlates Volume 1:

9-year-old daughter DEVOURED Stephen Carter's super excellent Book of Mormon comic book iPlates. Wish I'd had a copy to give to my nephew at his baptism last week. Highly recommended for 7 - 12+.

First Review

iPlates received its first review from Rachel Mabey Whipple on the blog Times and Seasons, where she compares various comic-book approaches to the Book of Mormon.

A few good quotes:

The iPlates collaboration is a particularly good example of how the comic book medium requires reader interaction.

Carter and Atwood are also good at visualizing characters who develop through time. Young Zeniff the spy is fleshed out, as are the Lamanites he had been taught to caricature. He matures and ages, as does his son Noah. The drawings of the characters show how each person is a single, continuous entity, even as his choices and experiences change and mold him through time.

Read the post here.