Graphic novel series Kaboom! lifts off with a blast for Jay Odjick and Scholastic

 By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Kid superhero Zack Commonda may have got his moniker “Kaboom” by accident, but a loud kaboom is the exact impact creator and writer Jay Odjick is aiming for with his new graphic novel. “If I’m going to do a book with a company as big as Scholastic, that’s why it’s called Kaboom! (because) we’re going to make some noise,” said Odjick, a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec. “We need our own people to do things that are big and splashy, that we think about, we care about, that we love… But we still need the platforms and the stages that these bigger non-Native companies can give us.” Odjick is no stranger to the big stage. In 2023,…

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