Friday Reads: One Week in the Library by W. Maxwell Prince, John Amor, & Frazer Irving

From Amazon.com:

Welcome to the Library. It’s here that every story ever written is catalogued and monitored by a single man, who’s begun to notice something strange: the books are rebelling.

Image Comics proudly presents this experimental graphic novella from writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist John Amor, which recounts a troublesome week in the Library via seven short stories—one for each day—that use comics, infographics, prose, and poetry to play with the graphic medium and explore the multivalent world of living narrative.

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Friday Reads: The Best American Comics 2016

From Amazon.com:
“There’s something thrilling about seeing people invent new ways to tell their story. To me, it’s proof that the art form of comics is healthy: it lives and grows and reinvents itself. It’s alive!”
–Roz Chast, from the Introduction

FEATURING Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Cece Bell, Geneviève Elverum, Ben Katchor, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Julia Wertz, and others

Roz Chast, guest editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her cartoons began appearing in The New Yorker in 1978. Since then she has published hundreds of cartoons and written or illustrated more than a dozen books. Her memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist.

Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor, is a comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He teaches courses about comics at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information please visit: on-panel.com.

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May your days be glarey and bright

Source: http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/04/25#.Vx33TN6dG-o.mailto

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The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?

This excellent documentary is now available for purchase @ www.tdoslwh.com. And, thanks to my Kickstarter contribution, there I am in the credits!

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Check out the HP Sprout

More @ sprout.hp.com.

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Friday Reads: The Secret History of Wonder Woman

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Friday Reads: Smut Peddler 2014 Edition

This was originally a Kickstarter project and Amazon does have a listing for paperback copies but they seem to be unavailable at the time of this posting. However Iron Circus Comics does have an eBook version available.

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The Digital Comics Museum

Like old comics? How about free digital version of old comics? Check out the Digital Comics Museum!

Welcome to DCM! Our mission with this site is providing as close to a free resource as possible where users can easily download public domain golden age comics without the need to ask or worry about searching the net for them.

For now there will be no download limit on registered users but this might have to change. Depending on donations and bandwidth usage we might have to return to download limits on non VIP members. Donators to DCM and Scanners who upload will never have limits placed on them.

If you wish to help out with DCM then please contact us or use the Donate link on the site. We are looking for uploaders, researchers, donators and moderators. If you contact us we will be able to provide details about each job position.

Thanks, digitalcomicmuseum.com

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British Library staging exhibition of comics in ‘overdue’ celebration of genre

Boys in the late 1970s probably assumed the girls comic Misty was all boring romance, puppies and ponies. How wrong they were. They were full of “incredibly dark, weird, psychologically harrowing” stories with “trippy and odd” artwork, said John Harris Dunning.

Dunning is co-curator, with Paul Gravett, of what will be the UK’s biggest exhibition of British comics, taking in everything from newly discovered Victorian comics to modern classics such as V for Vendetta.

The summer show, entitled Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK, is being staged by the British Library which holds the complete output of the British comics industry but said it had not in the past done the genre justice.

Roly Keating, the library’s chief executive, said: “It is fair to say, if we are being honest, that we haven’t devoted to that sector of our collection the scholarly and curatorial effort we have devoted to some of the higher culture parts of our collection. This year we are addressing that with a vengeance.”

Read the full article @ The Guardian.

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The Belgian Comic Strip Center

This was one of the highlights of our trip to Belgium…

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