Category: Graphic Novel Symposium

Next month’s Graphic Novel Symposium can’t come soon enough. As you probably know, we have a considerable collection of graphic novels, comic books and Manga in our library.  But did you realize the collections includes lots of nonfiction books that cover a wide range of academic subjects too?  These titles can serve as accessible entry… Continue reading Graphic Novels: More Than Stories

What could possibly be better than a Jane Austen book? A Jane Austen graphic novel filled with zombies!Today I’m featuring Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If you’re looking for other Pride and Prejudice like books, I would highly recommend these: The Graphic Canon. Volume 2 : From “Kubla Khan” to the Brontë Sisters to The… Continue reading Graphic Novel Series: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel

Batman is truly a man that needs no introduction. Batman: Year One was written and illustrated by Frank Miller and published in 1987. For those of you unfamiliar with the whole Batman series, Batman first appeared in DC comics spring of 1939. Since then, there have been many TV shows, movies, graphic novels, and comics… Continue reading Graphic Novel Series: Frank Miller’s Batman

Today I’ll be featuring a completely different kind of graphic novel. The Love and Rockets Book series is written and illustrated by three brothers. They started the comic in the 1980s as part of the alternative comic movement. If you’d like to read more on alternative comics, I would highly recommend the book Alternative Comics: An… Continue reading Graphic Novel Series: Love and Rockets

In preparation for the upcoming Graphic Novel Symposium, I’m starting a series to show the graphic novels we have here in the library! We recently received a gift from the Secretary of State/Illinois State Library Literacy Office to purchase graphic novels, so hold on to your seats kids, this is going to be a heck… Continue reading Graphic Novel Series: Game of Thrones