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Biblioblather – “I really wish I could draw. I wish I had a scanner, too. If I had a scanner, I’d be tempted to draw a couple of webcomics. Since I can’t and don’t, I need you to use your intelligence...
View ArticleAt Queens Libraries, a Passion for Japanese Comics Endures
NYT – “Manga clubs have coalesced in libraries in various Queens neighborhoods — Flushing, Jamaica, Long Island City — and the genre has colonized young-adult rooms in libraries around the country.”
View ArticleCOMIC-CON 2010: A boom in digital comics portends big changes for readers
Los Angeles Times– ‘Los Angeles Times writers Alex Pham and John Horn take a look at how a new wave of digital comic books designed for mobile phones, tablet computers and other devices stands to...
View ArticleComic book collector learns fine art of letting go
Associated Press – “Jose Alaniz spent about a week sorting and packing each comic book – carefully, lovingly. There were 12 boxes of them, comics he’d collected since his mother bought him his first...
View ArticleArtists say future of comics is online
San Diego Daily Transcript – Like many industries today, the future for comic book artists is on the Web, according to a Law & Comics panel hosted by the San Diego Law Library Monday. Artists who...
View ArticleCOMICS LOVERS WILL BE DRAWN TO OHIO MUSEUM
“There is a place where Snoopy frolics carefree with the scandalous Yellow Kid, where Pogo the possum philosophizes alongside Calvin and Hobbes. It’s a place where Beetle Bailey loafs with Garfield the...
View ArticleHow Libraries are Making Comic Conventions Accessible
“Last year, John Keithley, who runs Mystery House Comics, met a young boy in a samurai rabbit costume at a comic convention.”Oh, you’re dressed as Usagi Yojimbo,” Keithley said, instantly recognizing a...
View ArticleComic book lovers gather for 25-cent books in SF
“Scattered around Ed Minasian’s feet were copies of Bat Girl, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man — just a few of the comics he had snatched from boxes haphazardly spread throughout the San Francisco library...
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