Literacy

Reading with Pictures, the long running drive to create a school-certified textbook using comics, has entered into an agreement with Andrews McMeel to publish...

SAW—the Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainsesville, FL founded by Tom Hart and Leela Corman— has been doing some great work educating cartoonists, publishing mini comic, giving out micro-grants, and in general being a benefit to the comics community. They've been running an IndieGogo campaign for the last month or so, and it's in its final hours -- if you haven't thrown a few bucks their way, now is the time.

Hype Alert: You may (or may not) see some of this year's New York Comic Con panel on MISSION IN A BOTTLE, the Honest Tea...

Librarian Karen Green has done it again! She's gotten venerable cartoonist Al Jaffee (The Mad fold-in guy) to give his archives to the growing...

We've been covering the thrilling saga of the Nine Foot Tall Hulk Statue and the Northlake Library for months, and we're happy to say...

We've been reporting for some while on the saga of the Northlake Public Library in Illinois and its quest to attain a 9-foot-tall statue...

While many of you many be wondering "What's a common core?" if you're in the publishing business it's been the buzzword of the year....

Okay, so there was this library in Illinois that got the idea to build a 9-foot tall statue of The Hulk out front. As...

This weekend it's the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2013, with the actual event to be held May 11-12 at the Toronto Reference Library, 789...

MIX is a comics confab held each year in Columbus, OH by the Columbus College of Art and Design. This year's event will be...

Well that's what my copy editor called my story for PW How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library. Over a couple of months I talked to many of the major players in the GN/library connection like Robin Brenner, Mike Pawuk, Karen Green, Christian Zabriskie, Tina Coleman and so on to get a picture of where graphic novels got started in libraries and where they are going.

The Northlake library in Illinois has hatched a scheme to build a large scale— 9 foot tall—statue of The Hulk. To do so they have fashioned an Indiegogo campaign. So far they have raised only $920 of the $30,000 needed, so you better get your ass over and there and pledge because it's pretty obvious that the world needs more giant statue of the Hulk outside libraries.