The Graphic Librarian

Comics and graphic novels belong in your public library collections! This is a one-stop resource for news and information about the medium of narrative art for tumblarians and other interested librarians.

[libraryjournal]

The administration at Crafton Hills College, a community college in Yucaipa, CA, recently denied a student’s request to remove what she considered objectionable material from a college course on graphic novels. After enrolling in the course and purchasing her books, Tara Schultz was surprised to learn that some of the titles included mature material. “I expected Batman and Robin, not pornography,” she told the Redland Daily Facts (RDF). The four books on the syllabus she found objectionable included: Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1, by Brian Vaughan (Vertigo, 2003); The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House, by Neil Gaiman (1990, DC Comics); and Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon, 2004).http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/07/graphic-novels/ca-college-student-challenges-graphic-novel-syllabus/

She’s shocked, shocked, shocked.

[kirbycovers]

Captain America Annual #3 (Jan. 1976)

[necropoliscomic]

Chapter One

Page Eleven

-Jake

[injectioncomic]

Preview artwork for INJECTION #3 which is out tomorrow. You can read a four-page preview here.

You can get a copy in your local comic shop and digitally (as well as previous issues) on Comixology and the Image website.

[saintsideways]

I am LOVING this, in recent news

[cbldf]

More from the CBLDF SDCC Auction – Dan Brereton & Nate Powell!

http://cbldf.org/2015/07/bid-for-free-speech-at-cbldfs-live-art-auction-presented-by-idw-publishing-and-san-diego-comic-art-gallery/

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[comixology]

Amaaaazing Hulkbuster lego display!

[comixology]

In this episode Kara talks about her ultimate comic book fantasies and also tacos.

Join the comiXologists as they talk about their weekly recommendations! Topics include tacos, being LIVE in San Diego Comic, our LIVE show,variant digital and print comics(yeahhh!), not needing to learn French to read French comics, Kara booking a million podcast interviews, breaking iTunes feed news, CW TV love, Superman in 1927 South, scientists love rings, Kara doesn’t know Klingon lol, drakuuuula, adorbs Minions, and don’t forget about San Diego!!

Links:

San Diego Comic Con + comiXology!

Delcourt in ENGLISH!

This Week’s Podcast Picks!

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[firstsecondbooks]

The :01 SDCC booth in progress!

[mattfractionblog]

Vanity Fair: Kelly Sue DeConnick is the future of comics

[npr]

Fasten your seat belts, true believers. If you haven’t flipped through a comic book in a while, you might be in for quite a surprise come May. The entire Marvel multiverse is collapsing.

Forget about seeing the Wolverine we knew any time soon. And the current Ghost Rider? Before long, his current story line will be gone like, well, a ghost. In the new Marvel universe, coming in May, characters and continuities will be reimagined.

Soon, even the Avengers, that A-team of Marvel’s heaviest hitters, will be all but unrecognizable. For the first time in history, the group known as Earth’s mightiest heroes will be composed entirely of women. And they’ll be going by an entirely new moniker: the A-Force.

Writer G. Willow Wilson is behind the big restructuring. She’s a heavy-hitter herself, having made a huge mark on the comics world with her graphic novel Cairo and the comics series Air. Just last year, she was responsible for another big superhero transformation, creating the new Ms. Marvel, an American Muslim girl. As an American Muslim herself, Wilson regards that character as a particular point of pride.

The Woman Behind Marvel’s Newest Team Of Heroines

[brkteenlib]

This last Monday’s Youth Media Awards was one of the top experiences of my career.

I was a part of it in serving on Printz (shout out to my fellow Printz peeps, and see the glorious books in the wild, so to speak, with their shiny new stickers!) but I kept being so delightfully surprised by every announcement. 

So many amazing titles, in all kinds of formats and with so many levels of diversity, I felt incredibly proud to be a librarian today. I was over the moon about El Deafo, and Beekle, and Crossover, and so many more. I was delighted in the crossover between Printz and Caldecott, which I would never have predicted.  Also, what a delight it is to have our top title, I’ll Give You the Sun, also be a Stonewall Award winner.

Congrats to everyone who served on committees, helped by nominating titles, and just encouraged librarians in their work. That morning made my year. ‪

Also, the lovely Diane Colson, my Chair for Printz, has let me take over her music/YA column this week and post my pick of a song match for our Printz winner, I’ll Give You the Sun. Go check it out!

[firstsecondbooks]

We’re so excited to have This One Summer included in this list!

[comicsalliance]

"I wanted to give everything in the story an authoritative presence and realism, a sense of nowness – I wanted it to feel like it was happening in front of your eye, that you were plunged into a story and and the events were happening in a solid, irrefutable way. Sometimes I think comics can be cinematic in the sense that they’re influenced by cinema, sometimes I think they can be cinematic simply because they reach for a sense of verisimilitude and achieve it from different directions than cinema does. In other words, they’re arriving at the same place, through different means. If you can just make it feel like it’s all happening now, then you’re achieving something that cinema achieves very naturally, and in comics, we have to be a little more clever to pull that off."

LOVE, ART, MEMORY, AND REALITY: SCOTT MCCLOUD DISCUSSES ‘THE SCULPTOR’ [INTERVIEW]

[firstsecondbooks]

This is a great interview with Scott McCloud!

[wwacomics]

Geeky Crafts: Carol Danvers’ Lucky Hat

BY KATE TANSKI

In honor of the Captain Marvel movie being announced, I decided I would knit a Carol Danvers’ Lucky Hat for my Facebook friends who wanted one in celebration. (The amazing Kelly Sue DeConnick commissioned a pattern for fans, and I needed an excuse to try it out.) I got six requests and guestimated how much yarn I would need. I actually ended up with way too much red yarn, the right amount of yellow, but way too little blue yarn, so I will be ordering more blue yarn to complete the other five hats.

I’m a fairly experienced knitter. I’ve been knitting for over a decade, and I’ve tried pretty much anything that doesn’t involve sleeves. As such, I felt fairly confident in trying out the pattern and making a few minor modifications. My Carol Danvers’ Lucky Hat started with three modifications:

The official pattern uses bulky weight yarn and worsted weight, but I ordered all my yarn in worsted because I like the way the smaller knit yarn looks. I wasn’t really thinking about how it’d be more work to convert the pattern due to modification number three (see below).

I picked brighter colors than the ones suggested by the pattern — royal blue instead of navy, straight red instead of burgundy–because comics are bright, and I like the combination of primary colors.

The people I was making the hats for all had heads bigger than the standard “women’s one size,” and two of them were men.

Thus, I went into the pattern with a particular challenge: to modify the pattern to fit a larger circumference while working on smaller needles and (one weight) smaller yarn than the written pattern.

Challenge accepted.

Learn how to make Carol’s lucky hat from Kate on WWAC

[inthelibrarywithacomicbook-deac]

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Recommended Reads:

Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Oddly Normal by Otis Frampton

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud

Image Expo Wrap-Up:

Emma Rios and Kelly Sue DeConnick return with Pretty Deadly

Brandon Graham and Emma Rios on 8House and Island

Emi Lenox with Jeff Lemire and Jordie Bellaire on Plutona

Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder on AD

Brian K. Vaughan with Steve Skroce on We Stand On Guard

Brian K. Vaughan with Cliff Chiang on Paper Girls

Marjorie Liu with Sana Takeda on Monstress

For a complete write-up of the event, see Comic Book Resources: Image Expo: Keynote Address Announces New Projects from Vaughan, Snyder, Lemire and More

Interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick

[mattfractionblog]

So there’s a movie out this weekend based on books that romanticize, fetishize, glamorize and normalize abusive relationships. It will make 85 million dollars at the box office and move hundreds of millions of dollars of candy, soda, and cash-in branded merch.

And while sex is great and finding...

[familycarlyle]

We had two very welcome, very nice pieces of news re: Lazarus yesterday.

First, that the **LAZARUS: THE FIRST COLLECTION hardcover is going back to press for a second printing. This makes us very happy.

Second, that the pre-orders on the LAZARUS VOL. 3 TPB, collecting “Conclave,” was up nine percent from pre-orders on the previous TPB. This makes us very happy.

Thank you for reading, and thank you for ordering, and thank you so much for supporting our work.

In gratitude, here’s the cover to the “Conclave” trade, art by Owen Freeman.

It’s the least we can do ;)