Columns: Gender, stores, soaps
§ Kristy Valenti has the second part of her Gender and Reading Habits examination up, this time the girls are scrutinized, although more is...
School Library Journal graphic novel section
School Library Journal is a magazine aimed at...school librarians. It just had a big cover ppackage on graphic novels which you can read online,...
YALSA’s Top Ten GN’s for Teen
YALSA, the young adult librarian society, has picked it top grahpic novels of 07:
Abadzis, Nick. Laika. First Second
Carey, Mike. Re-Gifters. DC/Minx
Fleming, Ann Marie....
Comic Books in the Classroom: all the rage?
We knew it! Barely a week after looking at comics as teaching aids, The New York Times is back with a freaking EDITORIAL...
Must reading: Can children learn from comics?
We're always hearing about how comics are a great tool for literacy (and those among us who learned to read from comics would back...
Academic Libraries discover graphic novels
Karen Green, Columbia University's Ancient/Medieval Studies Librarian and Graphic Novel selector starts a blog at Comixology explains how an Ivy league university starts collecting...
YALSA list is up
The final nominations for YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens list is up.
Via David Welsh, who has analysis, as does Blog@.
Tokypop and DC...
Nate Fisher Speaks
Nate 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...
To do 9/29 LA: LA Lirary event
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...
LIbrary event recounted
ForeWord 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...
To Do, Sept. 6: Seriously: A Graphic Novel Symposium
If you happen to be up really early and going to the Harborfields public library, you can attend this great event with Mark Siegel,...
Are comics literature?
Of all the panels at San Diego the one we most wanted to see podcast or transcribed or whatever was COMICS ARE NOT LITERATURE...
