Comics Let My Comics Go! Comics for life, yo In case you didn’t know, I’m a bit of a comic nerd. Every public library I’ve worked in I’ve made it my personal goal to leave the comic or ‘graphic novel’ (they’re comics people, be proud!) section better than I found it. Starting with something as little as begging the collections librarian to take me shopping, to arguing to have an adult comic section, I’ve always pushed for comics in libraries. For years I’ve been looking at ways to improve the way we organise and displ
Comics Blog June - Day Eleven Early last year I decided to get back into buying single issues of comics collecting many lines. I’ve since then paired back my reading, culling all five X-Men titles I was collecting (really got sick of cross overs) and since have started purchasing more indie and alternative titles. The following list are all the lines I currently collect on a regular basis (italics denotes physical copy). When you collect a lot of issues the order in which you read them is important (to me anyway). What I u
Comics Blog June - Day Ten This year I’ve started to track what I’ve been reading and so far I’ve read 46 books. Now the majority of those are graphic novels but they still count! I have a terrible habit of borrowing all the new comics I purchase for the library (to help reader’s advisory of course!), plus purchase many for myself both digital and physical. Tomorrow I’ll discuss my current ongoing reading but here I’m going to list my favourite collected volumes I’ve finished this year. Some are recent publications but ma