From Librarians & Educators
Check out the American Library Association and Young Adult Library Services Association’s resources on graphic novels and comics.
American Library Association
- Graphic Novel Member Initiative Group (open to any member of ALA, from all kinds of libraries!)
Office of Intellectual Freedom
Young Adult Library Services Association
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens (Annual Selection List)
Remember that graphic novels are frequently featured on selection and awards lists from both YALSA and ALSC.
Librarian run or librarian-adjacent websites, blogs, and columns
- Comics in the Classroom (great for educators)
- Good Comics for Kids (School Library Journal)
full disclosure: I contribute to Good Comics for Kids - The Graphic Classroom (also great for educators)
- Graphic Novel Reviews (Library Journal)
- Graphic Novel Reporter
- Guys Lit Wire (comics reviews under the tag Warning: Graphic Content)
- Kids Love Comics
- Reading Rants: Graphic Fantastic
Comics conventions where you are likely to find librarians presenting:
- New York Comic-Con/New York Anime Festival (New York, NY)
- San Diego Comic-Con International (San Diego, CA)
- Toronto Comic Arts Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- Wizard World Comic-Cons (various cities)
- Wonder Con (San Francisco, CA)
Librarians, of course, are frequently presenting on graphic novels and comics at our own state and national conections, as are educators and anyone who works with literacy. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled.
If anyone has suggestions of more resources to add to this list, shoot Robin an email at robin at noflyingnotights dot com.
From the Publishing & Comics Industry
Statistics and Market News
Review sites
- Comics Worth Reading
- Manga at About.com (from manga expert Deb Aoki)
- The Manga Bookshelf (a multi-author blog chock full of manga reviews)
Commentary and feature articles
- Comic Book Resources (zeroes in on comic books and industry news)
- Comics212 (commentary from Christopher Butcher)
- Comics Alliance (great for keeping up with superhero & mainstream news)
- Mangablog (created and maintained by Good Comics for Kids’s Brigid Alverson)
- NPR’s Monkey See Pop Culture blog (links to comics coverage by Glen Weldon)
- Pop Candy (from USA Today’s Whitney Matheson)
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