
Early March 2009
Features:
Roundtable: Librarians are Heroes to Graphic Novel Lovers
Meet four librarians who have successfully incorporated graphic novels into their libraries for years. They share their insights on the issues they deal with, how they’ve been successful, how they’ve helped educate librarians and patrons, and why graphic novels and manga have been a hit where they work.
Op-Ed: Adam Johnson and Shake Girl
Adam Johnson is a Stanford professor who has taken a unique approach to engaging his students’ creative sides: a collective comics project. He and his students created their first work, Shake Girl, last year, turning out an incredibly moving and effective story of humanity at its best and worst. Now a new group of students is taking on an even longer project. See how they’re doing it in this incisive op-ed.
Recent Blog Posts:
A Special Watchmen Screening in New York
Oscar Buzz...About Comics!
Sweet Coraline
An Award for Toon Books
Creator Interviews:
Alan Davis
Alan has long been a beloved artist, writer, and creator in comics. From his defining work on Captain Britain in the 1980s to his bestselling run on Batman and the Outsiders and beyond, he’s worked on just about every pivotal hero in the DC and Marvel universes. Find out here what it was like working on them all and how he feels about his career now in this in-depth interview.
Fiction Reviews:
Akihabara@DEEP, Volume 1
Tamara Drewe
Gorgeous Carat
The Cain Saga
Nonfiction Reviews:
Gettysburg
I Live Here
Safe Area Gorazde
Embroideries
The Big Skinny
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation





