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Randall W. Scott's 1990 book, Comics Librarianship: A Handbook , has been an invaluable resource for me. It was my bible when I was reorganizing the Fanta library (with the help of others). (I often reference Scott's indexing handiwork (as well as Dr. Peter M. Coogan's) via the online Michigan ...
Indie
Mike Gold
Scott McCloud
"The basics of shonen manga are smiles and a happy ending," said Nobuhiro Watsuki, the creator of Rurouni Kenshin . To this I would add, "and terrible suffering." Japanese shonen (boys') manga permits violence way beyond anything found in American comics or animation, and seinen (adult) manga is ...
Marvel
Shaenon: What's that you're looking at on Wikipedia? It can't be as interesting as me.
Andrew: It's not. Don't look.
Shaenon: "List of Black Lanterns"? I knew it!
Andrew: Crud.
Shaenon: You stopped reading DC's "Blackest Night" crossover because it got too stupid, but you're still ...
DC
(Gold) Standards Part One: Graphic Novels: Beyond The Basics and the Kentucky Library-Worker Firings
When I started at Fantagraphics, I spearheaded a project to reorganize the library and archival material.[1] Managing a magazine, comics and graphic-novel library involves a lot of new challenges — how to best organize 10,000 books that would normally all reside in 741.59 in the Dewey ...
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The first time Astro Boy attacked United States servicemen was in 1967. Circumstances were dire, mind you; Astro had been thrown back in time from his home era of 2017, and could not find an adequate energy source to keep his body going. He'd been subsequently coerced aboard a U.S. nuclear ...
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Angel
When people remember Frank Tashlin today, they probably think of him as a director/screenwriter: of the Jayne Mansfield vehicles The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), or the movies Cinderfella (1960) or The Disorderly Orderly (1964), both starring Jerry Lewis. ...
DC
Earlier this year, Tom Spurgeon began his " best of the decade " project at his website, The Comics Reporter. In the past few weeks, a website called Berkeley Place began posting their own version of the same , and depending on when you read this, the AV Club may have posted theirs as well . ...
Marvel
Comics are sequential art, I'm told. So how do you get art into a sequence? The usual answer is through narrative. Superman helps a little old lady across the street in that panel; fans get older and creepier in this panel; Superman feasts on the blood of innocents in the third panel; Frederic ...
DC
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Every science-fiction geek has a favorite Harlan Ellison
story, right? Mine is "Jeffty Is Five," about a...
little boy born in the 1930s who never ages past five years old. Gradually, it becomes clear that not only is Jeffty an eternal little boy, but ...
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All the Comics in the World: Zot!
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Kristy Valenti looks at a 1999 autobiographical comic
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That He Loves: Bread & Wine
Last month, the eye , the arts magazine section of the Columbia Spectator (Columbia University's student paper since 1877), published an article on the graphic novels collection in Butler Library. The reporter—a tall, lanky, and enthusiastic fellow named Tommy Hill—interviewed Ben ...
