Reviews and recommendations for shelving graphic novels in libraries from Library Journal.
Graphic Novels By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 05/15/2009
Shakespeare in Comics As Hamlet advised, "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action." Setting Shakespeare into comics means more than trying to stage the play with pictures. Comics can translate the emotions and drama of the words into graphics that can go far beyond what actors might do, live stage or silver screen.
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Best Graphic Novels of 2008 By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 03/15/2009
If comics output shrank a bit last year, best-of comics lists sure didn't. Beside Publishers Weekly's regular Top 10 Manga and its Annual Critics Poll of graphic novels, lists appeared from National Public Radio, the New York Times, New York Magazine, and Amazon Editors' Choice. In the library world, Booklist and School Library Journal declared their picks, and YALSA announced its annual Great ...
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Graphic Novels By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 03/15/2009
2008 in Review In 2008, the American people put a comics lover in the White House. Yes, President Obama has confessed to being a Spider-Man fan and has already appeared in at least four comics. Both Obama and John McCain star in IDW's Presidential Material comic book biographies. In Savage Dragon issue #137, the titular superhero endorses the candidate.
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Graphic Novels: Follow the Yellowbrick Road By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 01/15/2009
"Postcards from Oz" was how Neil Gaiman described comics, so let's take a break from financial and political cyclones and escape to America's own fantasyland. The Wizard of Oz has captivated readers for over a century, and indeed its popularity inspired L. Frank Baum to write 13 sequels. The story has proven irresistible to the comikkers featured here as well.
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Graphic Novels: ¿Hablas Cómics? By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 11/15/2008
Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing U.S. ethnic minority, and they use libraries for information and entertainment. Entertainment, of course, can mean English-language, Latino-themed comics and manga. Click through for Martha Cornog's recommendations, as well as reviews by Steve Raiteri of Empowered and Yumekui Kenbun: Nightmare Inspector.
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Graphic Novels: Laugh Riot By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 09/15/2008
They're called "funnies" and "comics" for good reason. As early as the seventh century in Japan, temple workmen etched irreverent caricatures in hidden corners. Later, humorous 11th-century scrolls parodied religious ceremonials, showing animals in all the roles. In 1830s Europe, pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer's amusing "picture stories" diverted German writer Goethe, who was mournin...
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Graphic Novels: Fangirl to Wonder Woman By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 07/15/2008
Gail Simone had had it with all those "women in refrigerators": superheroines and other female comics characters over the decades who ended up murdered, crippled, carved up, and even stuffed into the refrigerator—yes, that happened to the Green Lantern's crush in 1994. So this longtime fangirl struck back with a laundry list of some 100 victims, now accessible at ...
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Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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