John Jakala’s very very modest question
Is this guy the real-life Man With No Name or what?
Two questions inspired by my last post:1. What are the best candidates for literary superhero comics?And to turn the tables on my preferred...
Manga for…grown-ups?
While the online manga world continues to fret about whether manga will ever grow up, Chris Butcher spots some evidence in TIME Magazine:
Meanwhile, Time Magazine is running an article on the guilty pleasures of...
Brit warns comics are only hope of stopping those pesky girls
An English educator who has written government literacy reports recommends comics such as THE BEANO and DANDY as tools to get boys to read, in a desperate bid to catch up with girls,...
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 known of their reading habits in general than comics reading...
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, started with Michelle Gorman's overview
What a difference a decade makes....
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. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Penguin Group
Giffen, Keith....
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 saying how great comics are as teaching aids:
The point is...
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 this up) but how are comics being accepted in the...
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 graphic novels:
University libraries tend to get their books from large...
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 Comics lead the final nominations for the Young Adult Library...
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 link.
While I’m well on my way in my effort to...
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 event taking place, with Mark Waid, Kazu Kibuishi and many...
