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- 1From:American Libraries (Vol. 47, Issue 6)Two libraries have been selected to receive 2016 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries. The 2016 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grant, given to a library that would like to expand its existing graphic...
- 2From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 4)READING COMICS: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. Douglas Wolk. Da Capo Press. 405 pp. $22.95 AN ANTHOLOGY OF GRAPHIC FICTION, CARTOONS, AND TRUE STORIES. Edited by Ivan Brunetti. Yale Univ. Press....
- 3From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 53, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSeldom does a day pass in the United States when the issue of immigration is not a component of a national media conglomerate's headlines. An advanced search of The New York Times's online archives is revealing. In the...
- 4From:School Library Journal (Vol. 55, Issue 9)JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, IT WAS TOUGH to find good graphic novels for the K-4 crowd. Sure, there were some standout selections, such as Andy Runton's Owly, Jimmy Gownley's Amelia Rules!, and Jennifer and Matt HolMs...
- 5From:Southwest Review (Vol. 104, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI was a comic book fan in the 1970s, when superheroes flew and flashed and skulked and swung across dark city rooftops. Those plots were simple: a bad guy appears, does something bad, and a hero appears and fights him....
- 6From:Knowledge Quest (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe often find ourselves lamenting the loss of emergent readers to video games, television, and, most recently, the TTYL (talk/type to you later) culture of text messaging and Internet social networking. Trying to impart...
- 7From:ArtUS (Issue 24-25)Kirk W. Fuoss's essay "Lynching Performances, Theatres of Violence" (1999) demonstrates how nineteenth-century technology helped to coordinate lynching mobs in the U.S. as a form of popular entertainment. In relation to...
- 8From:School Library Journal (Vol. 66, Issue 3)The 2020 Youth Media Awards (YMAs) made history when Jerry Craft's New Kid became the first graphic novel to win the coveted Newbery Medal in a huge moment for the format and its creators. Craft's fellow authors and...
- 9From:Visual Arts Research (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSome comics can be very touching! These autobiographical narrations are made by women from different countries who talk about their desires and struggles in their lives. We might feel identified with them in some...
- 10From:American Libraries (Vol. 45, Issue 9-10)The Office of Film and Literature Classification decreed in July that Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's graphic novel Lost Girls must be restricted to adult readers and cannot be displayed in public due to its erotic...
- 11From:Reference & Research Book News (Vol. 20, Issue 3)NC1320 2005-005865 1-58115-408-9 The education of a comics artist; visual narrative in cartoons, graphic novels, and beyond. Title main entry. Ed. by Michael Dooley and Steven Heller. Allworth Press,...
- 12From:Design Week (Vol. 19, Issue 32)ANYONE looking for evidence of women's growing presence in contemporary illustration need only look at packaging and print media. Here, not only is there more work by female illustrators, but it is dynamic, innovative,...
- 13From:Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs a child, I believed I was a super hero. I had become car sick and threw up all over a full-page spread of kryptonite in the Superman comic I was reading. I was around 5. Suddenly, it was all clear to me: * the...
- 14From:The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
- 15From:The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
- 16From:Word Ways (Vol. 45, Issue 2)Russ Kick has created Graphic Canon , a mammoth three-volume work that Publisher's Weekly calls "The graphic publishing literary event of the year. "I would say that this fantastic work is the event of the decade--and...
- 17From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOver a decade ago, as a graduate student in English, mentored by three inspiring feminist advisors on my dissertation committee, I longed to write the kind of analysis that I found largely missing in academic studies of...
- 18From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis essay looks at the ways in which the burgeoning field of graphic novels contributes to the dialogue of visuality and ethics. Specifically I explore how the comic architecture of Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings...
- 19From:School Library Journal (Vol. 55, Issue 3)Chris Wilson, founder and editor of the blog "The Graphic Classroom" is a man on a mission. "I want to be the comic literature site for teachers, librarians, administrators, and even parents-that place where they come...
- 20From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 9)Tintin in the Congo for kids? Little, Brown Books for Young Readers had a change of heart and reversed its decision to reissue the controversial 1931 comic book as a separate edition in the United States. Instead,...