Kindle Panel View is a special technology developed by Amazon to make it easier to view and navigate comics and graphic novels on the Kindle Fire. Instead of viewing an entire page on the Fire’s screen, then double-tapping to zoom in and swiping to move around within the page, with Kindle Panel View you’re treated to close-ups of individual panels from each page. You move from panel to panel by swiping, the same as you would do for page-turning while reading a regular Kindle book. No more tiny text! No more indecipherable images!
It’s important for parents to know: graphic novels may look like thicker, sturdier comic books, but many of them are written with older teens and adults in mind and are not appropriate reading material for children.
Please be sure that when you’re considering buying a graphic novel you’re not familiar with, you take a few minutes to get a better idea of its content before purchasing if you are buying for a child. Take advantage of the Look Inside preview option if it’s available, quickly scan the reviews, and read the brief description for the book to learn what it’s about and whether there may be strong language, graphic violence or other adult-oriented elements.
Now you can enjoy the full-color imagery and text of such graphic novel masterpieces as Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, Alan Moore’s Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta, right on your Kindle Fire!
Two more very popular and critically-acclaimed graphic novel series that are now available with Kindle Panel View are Brian K. Vaughan’s dystopian Y: The Last Man and the Fables series, from Bill Willingham and Lan Medina: a much darker take on the world of fairy tales. There’s are Batman graphic novels from Frank Miller, too.
If you’re a fan of superheroes or Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Avengers, Cabin in the Woods), you’ll want to get a copy of Identity Crisis, a revisionist take on the DC superheroes universe by Brad Meltzer, Rags Morales and Whedon.
From Amazon:
New York Times best-selling novelist Brad Meltzer (THE ZERO GAME; THE MILLIONAIRES) unleashes a murder mystery featuring some of the biggest pop icons in the world: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the Justice League. When the spouse of a JLA member is brutally murdered, the entire superhero community searches for the killer, fearing their own loved ones may be the next targets. Before the mystery is solved, a number of long-buried secrets will threaten to divide the heroes before they can bring the mysterious killer to justice. IDENTITY CRISIS is an all-too-human look into the lives of superheroes, and the terrible price they pay for doing good.
Some of the newer graphic novels are downright literary, like Gabriel Ba’s Daytripper. From Amazon:
“One of the most memorable things we’ve read in a long time.” — io9
“Beautifully written and utterly gorgeous, DAYTRIPPER completely blew me away.” — Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy, My Chemical Romance)
What are the most important days of your life? Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá answer that question in the critical and commercial hit series that took the industry by storm, winning praise from such comics veterans as Terry Moore, Craig Thompson and Jeff Smith. Follow aspiring writer Brás de Oliva Domingos as each chapter of DAYTRIPPER explores a completely different moment in his life. Moon and Bá tell a beautifully lyrical tale chronicling Domingos’s entire existence— from his loves to his deaths and all the possibilities in between.
Browse the full list of graphic novels with Kindle Panel View technology here.