Reviews and recommendations for shelving graphic novels in libraries from Library Journal.
Graphic Novels By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 11/15/2009
American Chick Lit Good ole American pretty girls in comics predate shojo manga heroines by decades. The charming Gibson Girls won hearts in the 1890s, and then Nell Brinkley's gorgeous flappers (see review, page 53) took pretty girldom into serial stories, harbingers for 1940s icons Brenda Starr, Wonder Woman, Torchy Brown, and that yin-yang duo, Betty and Veronica.
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Graphic Novels By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 09/15/2009
Webcomics Wonderland Nearly 10,000 webcomics grace the virtual universe, and several recent how-tos could bump that even higher (see sidebar, p. 46). Webcomics' not-ready-for-prime-time quality attracts both creators and readers, and bound compilations can perk up collections as well as drive up a library's cool quotient.
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Books for Dudes: Dog Day Bildungsromans By Douglas Lord - 07/23/2009
It is late summer, and my dude’s mind naturally turned to that beloved (and just as often maligned) category of coming-of-age novels. Turns out there’s a special term for them: Bildungsroman, which I ran across in Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. According to the Modern Oracle, Wikipedia, it’s when an author “presents the psychological, moral, and social shaping of the personality of a protagonist.”
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Graphic Novels By Martha Cornog & Steve Raiteri - 07/15/2009
In Sickness and in Comics In the 1940s before television's Marcus Welby, M.D. and Grey's Anatomy, it was "true adventure" comic books that introduced us to medical heroes: Louis Pasteur, Florence Nightingale, Walter Reed, even the first U.S.-educated woman doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell. (See Bert Hansen's fascinating "Medical History for the Masses" in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2004.
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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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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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