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WANTED: Preferably alive! You miss a couple letters from your mom and suddenly there’s a bounty on your friends’ heads. Eugene needs to get back to the Kingdom of Marble, fast, or else Michel, Hocus, and Ani are going to be facing the business end of a dungeon. Along the way, Hocus and Ani detour…
“This epic deserves a place on the shelf next to Jeff Smith’s Bone series.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“Masterful and immersive.” — FOREWORDEvan Dahm’s richly imaginative work of epic fantasy and culture clash is finally collected in a beautifully packaged four-volume trade edition! The river Ata grants the nomadic Fluters all they need to survive. That is…
This is the first academic volume to examine the librarian and archival professional through the lens of sequential art. The portrayal of libraries/librarians in sequential art has a long history from the Golden Age to the present day. Libraries and archives in comics historically are seen as places of important knowledge and information. Diving deep…
Though it is still not uncommon to hear the question “Comics? In libraries?!”, comics collections have existed in academic institutions for over fifty years. Libraries have taken a variety of approaches to address differing philosophies and needs for their collections, but discourse has typically focused on the practical concerns of management and organization, considering the…
To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement. Now an established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic novels are proving to be one of the last kinds of print publications actually gaining…
Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga…
Here is an in-depth guide to understanding, building, and managing an optimal collection of graphic novels that is targeted to please the format’s mamy dedicated adult fans. The book provides a helpful overview of the increasingly imporant role that graphic novels play in collection development. Serchay covers both American and foreign works and provides invaluable…
Many educators now agree that graphic novels inform as well as entertain, and to dismiss the educational potential of the graphic novel is to throw away a golden opportunity to reach out to young readers. This dynamic book takes a look at the term “graphic novel,” how the format has become entwined in our culture,…
In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy–muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by girls. While there have been many strong representations of women throughout their history, the comics of today have evolved and matured, becoming a potent medium in which…
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