Every September, American libraries promote library card registration! For the past few years, the American Library Association has named honorary chairpeople to publicize the joy...
As you may know, Marvel is re-[doing] their line with 60 new titles this fall. The whole line will be revealed soon (solicits are coming) but here's the line-up thus far -- we'll update as more is known. So far nine titles of the 60 or so have been announced, and the creative teams are unsurprising. No knock on the very talented people involved, just an observation. But who knows what the future holds? What do you think? Is this exciting? Or about what you expected?
Reproduced from the ALA website, here's the schedule and descriptions for the panels being hosted on the Graphic Novel/Gaming Stage in the exhibits hall...
While I was poking around the internet for the history of Marriott Hall the other day, I chanced upon some photos of San Diego in the 80s taken during and just after the construction of the Marriott Marquis and Marina. The first photo is prior to the hotel's completion in 1987. I'm not enough of an expert in San Diego history to know the history of the marina, but as you can see, it bears very little resemblance to the glitzy high rise neighborhood of today. There's no convention center, no Hyatt, no Embassy Suites, no Petco PArk, no Omni...nothing really.
Tini Howard, Blake Howard, and Fernando Heinz Furukawa's Candela Obscura graphic novel, based on the supernatural Critical Role series and game, will be released by Dark Horse Comics in August 2027.
Louise Fitzhugh's classic children's book Harriet the Spy is being adapted into a graphic novel by Harriet Webster and Claudia Petrazzi, due out from Delacorte Press on April 27, 2027.
