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NYCC ‘18: The NY Public Library Panel – Literary Comics to Build Your Collection

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by Sara L. Jewell   On Thursday morning, for the second consecutive year, NYCC kicked off by hosting a full track of off-site programming for educators, librarians and comics professionals at the New York Public library. With topics ranging from building a classroom curriculum around Marjorie Liu’s Monstress to “#RepresentationMatters In Your School Library”, the day’s programming placed a […]

Review: Julian Hanshaw’s ‘Cloud Hotel’ keeps things mysterious

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In his previous graphic novel Tim Ginger, Julian Hanshaw touched up on UFOs in context of their place in popular conspiracy culture, mysterious but unlikely. In Cloud Hotel, Hanshaw does the exact opposite — he puts UFOs front and center, but somehow makes them more mysterious by doing so. Hanshaw says that Cloud Hotel is […]

INTERVIEW: Erin Nations explores phone anxiety and gender identity in GUMBALLS

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One of Top Shelf’s recent releases – Gumballs – wasn’t a graphic novel but a new comics series. A quarterly series from the young cartoonist Erin Nations, the first issue contains multiple stories and illustrations that range from the humorous to the emotionally fraught. Nations talks openly about being transgender, while other stories involve growing […]

Interview: You Might Be An Artist If… you find Lauren Purje’s book all too relatable

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Lauren Purje studied fine art, but in recent years she’s best known for making comics about the art world – most importantly about what it means to be an artist, especially a young artist. Her comics sometimes feel like editorials on the state of the art world, others come off like self-help and self-care, while […]

A Year of free Comics: Lauren Purje explores the aspiring artist’s life at Hyperallergic

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Art and culture site Hyperallergic is home to several ongoing comics by an array of up and comers. One of them is Lauren Purje, an art school graduate whose clean-lined comics are a humorous look at the art world and the aspiring fine artist. Purje’s popular strip was just collected by Top Shelf in You Might […]

March, Book Three is the Big Winner With Librarians! (But That’s Not All!)

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Just a quick report, with a longer piece to follow: This morning, the American Library Association announced the 2016 winners of various book awards, for books, video, and audiobooks written for children and teens.  Some aren’t well known outside libraries, but some, like the Caldecott, Printz, and Newbery, gain instant acclaim and book sales. Every […]

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