Nate Fisher Speaks
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNate Fisher, the teacher in Eightball-Gate, has posted in our comment section, and in the interest of giving his comments equal prominence, here’s a link. While I’m well on my way in my effort to move on and I have mixed feelings about generating MORE press, I’d like to send out a [...]
Continue ReadingTo do 9/29 LA: LA Lirary event
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Lots of literate stuff going on in LA, this weekend, including the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, but on Saturday, there’s another worthy event taking place, with Mark Waid, Kazu Kibuishi and many more: September 29th the Los Angeles Public Library’s Art Department is proud to present The Future of Graphic [...]
Continue ReadingLIbrary event recounted
Share this link on Facebook!TweetForeWord Magazine writes up a recent graphic novel event for librarians. \ It may have been the first all-day event for librarians devoted exclusively to the graphic novel. Graphic novel consultant John Shableski and librarians from the Harborfields Public Library, headed by Director Carol Albino, assembled a mesmerizing series of panels and speakers [...]
Continue ReadingTo Do, Sept. 6: Seriously: A Graphic Novel Symposium
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIf you happen to be up really early and going to the Harborfields public library, you can attend this great event with Mark Siegel, Raina Telgemeier, Jommy Gownlet, John Gallagher, and a ton of librarians. Seriously: A Graphic Novel Symposium Thursday September 6 Harborfields Public Library Click above link for info.
Continue ReadingAre comics literature?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOf all the panels at San Diego the one we most wanted to see podcast or transcribed or whatever was COMICS ARE NOT LITERATURE and now Newsarama has a report by Zack Smith, although two of the participants have already said it isn’t entirely accurate. Dammit, we should have been [...]
Continue ReadingNotable Quotables
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Dave Astor has several reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’s 50th Anniversary convention: Can editorial cartoons survive? Before audience members came up with the suggestions, the problem was described by editorial cartoonist Paul Fell — one of the session leaders. “Part of the reason the AAEC was founded was a [...]
Continue ReadingMeanwhile: ALA Conference Report
Share this link on Facebook!TweetICv2 goes to the American LIbrary Association show and reports findings to base: The two hour “Teen Graphic Novels: Maintaining Your Collection for Maximum Impact!” panel on Saturday was the primary programming event on graphic novels. Teen librarian panelists Brenner, Pawuk, Angela Reynolds (Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia), and Todd [...]
Continue ReadingComics attract wordsmiths, too
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFirst it was the actors; then it was the directors and musicians and TV show staff writers. Now it’s the famous novelists who think comics are the bees knees, as the AP reports. Clues as to state of the loooonnnnggg brewing OMEGA THE UNKNOWN by Jonathan Lethem and Farel Dalrymple [...]
Continue ReadingReal Classic Marvel
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We found this press release to be of some interest: more info on Marvel’s new line of “Classic Comics.” including The Last of the Mohicans, Treasure Island and The Man in the Iron Mask. Marvel has been beefing up their bookstore offering with stuff like pacting with Stephen King, Neil [...]
Continue ReadingNews and notes
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching on the US as well. The practice of adapting stories from manga and animation to prose has been growing in Japan. As Roland Kelts, the author of “Japanamerica: [...]
Continue ReadingNew Zealand responds to library issues
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe missed this story last week about complaints in a New Zealand library over shelving CHOBITS (as identified by Dirk) in the kids section, but it appears things are being worked out with a plan to relocate the teen and graphic novel sections to a different art of the Wanganui [...]
Continue ReadingLibrary of Congress adds Drooker
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia PR Even the U.S. Government can appreciate the classic political artwork of frequent New Yorker cover artist Eric Drooker. The Library of Congress has just purchased the original artwork of Drooker’s political masterwork, Flood! to rest in their public prints and photos collection. These pages have found a permanent home [...]
Continue ReadingBooklist's Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A distinguished panel of librarian experts puts together a top ten list for the ALA: 1. Kampung Boy2. The Legend of Hong Kil Dong : The Robin Hood of Korea3. Missouri Boy4. Girl Stories5. Kristy’s Great Idea6. Bumperboy and the Loud, Loud Mountain7. To Dance : A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel8. Castle Waiting9. [...]
Continue ReadingHappy ending in Marshall
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In case you missed it, here is the full story from the Marshall Democrat-News on the new Marshall, MO library policy and the fate of FUN HOME and BLANKETS which were removed from shelves following complaints over adult content. The books have been returned to circulation but will be shelved in [...]
Continue ReadingFun Home and Blankets reshelved in Marshall?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe comics blogosphere and press has been closely following the situation in Marshall, MO, where complaints over content led to FUN HOME and BLANKETS being removed from library shelves. The library began a long, thoughtful process of public hearings to decide on a new policy, one of which was held [...]
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