Graphic Novels
A new job, upcoming travel, and recent reading
I know updates have been few and far between lately, but that’s because a lot has been going on in my offline life that’s demanded my attention. Last week I accepted a new job as Youth Services Librarian for Pierce County Library System (WA), starting in mid-July. I will miss my colleagues and community [...]
2011 GGNFT Nominations Updated
The list of official nominations for the 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list from YALSA has just been updated!
I’m lucky enough to be on the committee this year, but you don’t have to be on the committee or even a librarian to nominate a title. Please help us discover great new books! To [...]
Ten titles to watch for in 2010
Everyone else did their list of what they’re looking forward to in January, but let’s just pretend I’m doing this for Lunar New Year! In the interests of brevity, I’m limiting myself to sequential art series or standalone titles being published in the US for the first time in 2010 and significant reissues.
Doorways to sequential art
Way back in February, I attended a workshop taught by Nancy Pearl on readers’ advisory. For those you not up on library lingo, readers’ advisory is the art of connecting readers with books, whether fiction or nonfiction. It’s not necessarily a recommendation service; it doesn’t matter so much whether you like it as it whether [...]
Revisiting Sandman
This week I’ve been rereading Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, a project I plan to continue as soon as I recover from my case of post-Thanksgiving sloth. Right now I’m up to volume 3 (Dream Country).
I first read Sandman in early 2004. It was one of the first works of sequential art that I’d ever read seriously. [...]
Chmakova, Svetlana: Nightschool: The Weirn Books, vol. 2
My review of vol. 2 of Nightschool: The Weirn Books is now up at Manga Life. Enjoy!
Highlights from Yen Plus (Sept. 09)
My article on the Sept. 2009 issue of Yen Plus magazine is now up at Manga Life. It focuses mostly on three works currently being serialized in the publication: Time and Again by Jiun Yun, Hero Tales by Jin Zhou Huang and Hiromu Arakawa, and Nightschool by Svetlana Chmakova.
Farewell to Minx
The big news in the comics world last week–sorry, I’m a little behind on my RSS feeds–was the demise of Minx, DC’s imprint aimed at teen girls. Many wonderful comics bloggers have written thoughtfully on this situation, so here are some links:
Over at Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh wrote in Half measures:
My strongest impression of the [...]
Link roundup 2008-03-02
David Welsh of Precocious Curmudgeon highlights offerings from Manga Month in Diamond’s Previews catalog. I happen to have gotten my hands on an advance reading copy of one of the titles he mentions, Seichi Hayashi’s Red Colored Elegy, and am looking forward to reading it when I have some spare time.
John Jakala of Sporadic Sequential [...]
Carey, Liew, and Hempel: Re-Gifters
Re-Gifters
Written by Mike Carey
Art by Sonny Liew and Marc Hempel
DC Comics (Minx), 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4012-0371-9
Review
Widely hailed as the best offering in the first round of Minx comics, Re-Gifters is the story of Los Angeles teen Dik Seong Jen—“Dixie” to her friends—a hapkido student with a serious crush on her classmate Adam. In an effort to win [...]
Link roundup 2008-02-25
Over at Asia Pacific Arts, Gene Yang talks about the growth of Asian American comics and his current projects in The Second Life of Gene Yang. Am I a geek for being excited by the prospect of a comic about the Boxer Rebellion?
David Welsh’s Flipped column has found a new home at The Comics [...]
Asian American Comics
I’ve happily added a new comics blog to my feed reader this week: Asian American Comics [Link via Angry Asian Man]. It promises “the latest scoop on Asian American comics and Asian American comic book creators,” and from what I’ve seen so far, it’s delivering.
Here are just a few of the great links that I’ve [...]
Link roundup 2008-02-11
Bryan Lee O’Malley of Scott Pilgrim fame shares the cover he drew for the March 2008 issue of Shojo Beat. Along the way, he plugs two Shojo Beat titles, Nana and Beauty Pop. I’m a big fan of the former but unfamiliar with the latter; I’ll have to add it to my to-read list. [Via [...]
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