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Posted by Janice Biebrich
Posted Posted October 19/04
Overview & Objectives
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Welcome to my virtual seminar on Graphic Novel Online Reviews. The goals of this presentation are to:
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I would like to introduce you to a very
special virtual guest. Da Da Da, Da! Da Da...
The illustrious Robin Brenner of No Flying No Tights will be dropping in to our discussion. (While working on my website evaluation I contacted Robin to clarify some questions I had. She responded to me very promptly and then offered to virtually visit the class. Who could say no to an offer like that?) |
| Please check out the following links so that we may all have a common foundation for the Virtual Seminar discussion. |
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Art
Bomb - Browse books by genre for reviews |
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Beeks
Books - Skim the list (If it has a particular order, it escapes me.) |
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Bob's
Comic Reviews - Reviews alphabetized by author under headings |
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Book
Wholesalers, Inc. (BWI) TITLETALES - It's free to register (You must register to search the site.) - Advanced search allows many options - Useful information in the display includes recommended grade levels, reviews and cataloguing information |
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Comic
Books for Young Adults by Michael R. Lavin - Recommended (but not reviewed) titles listed first by age and interest, then by genre |
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The
Comics Get Serious: Graphic Novels and Other Stuff by D. Aviva
Rothschild, author of Graphic
Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book-Length Comics |
| The Comics Journal |
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Comic
Readers - Browse the archives or search |
| Comic World News |
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Comics
Worth Reading - Recommendations, Manga Reviews, Independent Comics Reviews, DC Comics Reviews, Marvel Comics Reviews |
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Darkhorse - Browse by Titles, Creators or Subjects for a short synopsis (not review) with age level |
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Diamond
Bookshelf - Reviews written by Kat Kan who also writes a column Graphically Speaking in Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) |
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Fanboy
Planet - Comics Preview Spotlight |
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Follet's
TITLEWAVE - It's free to register (You must register to search the site.) - Click on collection development to set the parameters of your search - The results list includes reading and interest level, excerpts from review journals (i.e.: Booklist) |
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Fourth
Rail - Skim the archives for titles |
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Graphic
Novel Review - First Issue Sept. 2004 |
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Grovel.org.uk
The source for Graphic Novels - Browse by titles, writers or artists |
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Guardians
of the North - A good site for bringing attention to Canadian Comics |
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Graphic
Novels Tired of Superman? How About Trying Something New? by April
Spisak & Ria Newhouse - Short annotations of graphic novels in listed by fiction and non-fiction |
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Graphic
Novel Roundup by Steve Weiner, author of 101
Best Graphic Novels |
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icomics - Best of lists or search by title |
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Lambiek
Comiclopedia - This site is made up of author author biographies with mentions of their work |
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The
Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga by
Gilles Poitras, author of Anime
Essentials - There are recommended lists of Anime (listed alphabetically by title) and Manga (listed by both author and title) |
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Manga
Maniacs - Reviews listed alphabetically by series - Series are colour coded for appropriateness |
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Need
Coffee - Reviews listed alphabetically by title |
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MARSimport - Search by title or browse by title, series, genre, publisher, creator, price or language for info and descriptions (no reviews) |
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Ninth
Art - Search full length reviews with cover art and inside pages |
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No
Flying No Tights by Robin Brenner and cohorts - Reviews by genre or search by creator/author, title or publisher |
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Rambles - Reviews are listed alphabetically by title within publisher groupings |
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reads4teens - short reviews by teens |
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SBC
Silver Bullet Comic Books - Line of Fire reviews of comics |
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Sequential
Tart: The Report Card - Reviews in each issue may be sorted in several ways |
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Spiderfan - Search |
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Suspended
Animation - \skim the tiles in each year's list |
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Toonopedia:
A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge - From The Yellow Kid to the present |
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top-book-reviews - Search Graphic Novels and browse by genre |
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What
Teens Want - Thirty Graphic Novels You Can't Live Without
recommended by Michele Gorman, author of: Getting Graphic! Using
Graphic Novels to Promote Literacy with Preteens and Teens Michele’s list has been reprinted with title covers in Teens Know on the Harris County Public Library Site |
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Winnipeg
Public Library Staff Picks - Short annotations of a handful of graphic novels |
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I have also included suggested reading which may help you to gain a broader understanding of the topic. Please read what seems useful to you. I'm sure we are all indifferent places in graphic novel collection development. |
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Posted by Janice Biebrich |
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Posted Posted October 19/04 |