Fun Home and Blankets reshelved in Marshall?
The comics blogosphere and press has been closely following the situation in Marshall, MO, where complaints over content led to FUN HOME and BLANKETS being removed from library shelves. The library began a...
In Marshall, you find great books along the highway
Meanwhile, back in Marshall, MOthe new library policy has its first reading and two citizen-democrats showed up to have their say.
Hird was wearing a button that said, "I read banned books." He brought...
2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
YALSA's complete list of 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens is up.
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced its 2007 recommended...
ALA lists Best Books for Young Adults
The Final YALSA list of top books for teens for 2007 is up, and there are several graphic novels in the list. We'll let you click and find yourself. We will note that AMERICAN...
ForeWord’s COMIQUE
ForeWard is a magazine covering the indie book scene, and this month it has a special section on comics, which you can read in .pdf form right here!
We haven't had time to read it,...
Graphic novel helps Scots read!
If The Scotsman is to be believed, a graphic novel of Robert Louis Stevenson's KIDNAPPED is all the rage, and it's being given away free to encourage reading.
IT is one of the...
“As more graphic novels appear in libraries, so do challenges”
Thus reads the headline on a story , widely circulated via the AP which looks at the Marshall Library matter in a wider context:
The Chicago-based American Library Association said it knows of at...
Marshall, MO slogs towards policy
Zack Sims continues to faithfully chronicle the activities of the Marshall, MO library board, as another meeting to discuss their policy on material selection, with some progress made:
The committee had agreed to read...
Margaret Atwood, cartoonist
Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's greatest living writers. The multiple-award winning novelist, essayist and poet is the author of such books as THE HANDMAID'S TALE and CAT'S EYE, and she also dabbles in...
Two ways of looking at a library
The Kansas City Star looks at the recent controversy over FUN HOME and BLANKETS:
But the books are notable because they’re also graphic novels, stories told primarily with drawings instead of words. They resemble...
Links so good
§ Johanna has more commentary on ICv2's Most Powerful People in manga list, including spots 11-20:
# Robin Brenner, Young Adwult Library Services Association# Jim Chadwick, Editor in Chief, CMX# Liza Coppola, Senior VP of...
More from Marshall, MO
Marshall Democrat-News editor Chuck Mason takes a stand:
I'm no legal scholar but there is one thing I do know: censorship is censorship.I have no qualms with Louise Mills of Marshall, who objected to the...
