by Katy Farrell | Mar 19, 2018 | Club Ink, Comic books, GCPL Comics Month, Graphic Novels
In honor of #GCPLComicsMonth, I started March by jumping into graphic novels, a genre about which I know little. My first point of entry was Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists. This book is a compilation of the works of 17 different...
by Club Ink | Mar 16, 2018 | Club Ink, Comic books, GCPL Comics Month, Graphic Novels, Manga, Staff Picks
Jenna recommends: Deep Dark Fears and The Creeps by Fran Krause are collections of four panel comics depicting people’s deepest fears. A lot of the fears depicted in the books are ones submitted by readers of his blog, and each comic is painted and lettered by...
by Club Ink | Mar 14, 2018 | Club Ink, Comic books, GCPL Comics Month, Graphic Novels, Manga, Why I love the library
When I tell people that I was born in Flint, Michigan they sometimes cringe and wait for me to tell them horror stories about living there, but the memory that comes to mind is of the Flint Cultural Center, where the Main Library is located. My mother and I spent many...
by Club Ink | Mar 12, 2018 | Club Ink, Comic books, GCPL Comics Month, Graphic Novels, Manga, What the Library Means to Me, Why I love the library
What the library means to me, by Jenny Campbell When I was a kid growing up in Arizona, there was absolutely nothing better than a trip to the library – specifically, the Saquaro branch of the Phoenix Public Library – where I could roam the stacks and pick out...
by Club Ink | Mar 9, 2018 | Club Ink, Comic books, GCPL Comics Month, Graphic Novels, Staff Picks
Marcia recommends Fairy Tale Comics edited by Chris Duffy These are classic tales told by extraordinary cartoonists. This volume is all in color. My favorite tale is “Puss in Boots” retold by Vanessa Davis. Charles Perrault begins the tale with three sons...
by Kara Fennell Walker | Mar 7, 2018 | Club Ink, Comic books, GCPL Comics Month, Graphic Novels, Manga
Having a five-year-old “new” reader at my house, I am becoming even more familiar with the ins and outs of early readers than I was as “just” a children’s librarian. My daughter came home from Kindergarten one day and declared she only wanted to read “comics.” I...
