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May 17, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

Links: Manga in schools and libraries

May 17, 2010 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

Editorial Anonymous chats with Calamity Jack writer Shannon Hale about hairfighting, doofuses, and the popularity of graphic novels.

Librarian Christian Zabriskie talks about how manga knits together the multicultural teenage clientele at the Queens library:

“This kind of secret, hidden knowledge gives them a power and an empowerment,” he said. “It’s this generation’s esoterica.”

But, he said, unlike other teenage rituals like graffiti or, at the extremes, gang membership, manga fandom increasingly happens at one of the safest places around — the library.

“Rather than seeking out things that may be harmful, having your secret coding be foreign literature that you read in the library is pretty great,” said Mr. Zabriskie, a lanky redhead who fell in love with comics as a boy and with manga in his 20s, when it hit the United States in the 1990s.

John Hogan talks to Rachel Renee Russell about her best-selling prose/graphic novel hybrid The Dork Diaries.

Evan Krell brought a copy of the all-ages manga Yotsuba&! to his mother’s class to see what would happen. The kids loved it, not surprisingly, so Evan dug a little deeper and did a survey of their reactions to the series.

Meanwhile, in Detroit, the Free Press calls in several experts to smack down a teacher who wouldn’t let a third-grader bring in a graphic novel for Children’s Book Week. (Via Robot 6.)

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Johanna Draper Carlson has a fascinating article on Spire Christian Comics, religious versions of Archie comics, using the same characters, that were published in the 1970s.

Lori Henderson celebrates National Pet Month with a roundup of pet-oriented manga, much of it kid-friendly.

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Reviews: The webcomic Unshelved  has a review of Jane Yolen and Mike Cavallaro’s Foiled in comics form. At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson reviews an assortment of recent graphic novels for kids.

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

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