Comics News!

I have no idea who at work I'd share this with, since I'm the buyer for all the kids' graphic novels, but I thought it was worth linking: Boom! Studios, which makes all those great Pixar-related titles, has lost the Pixar license. The good news is that there is still going to be Pixar content, but it will be carried by Marvel (who is owned by Disney, who also owns Pixar). I'm not too thrilled with Marvel's print quality, since all the digests I've gotten from them for regular superhero titles fall apart far too quickly for library use. Some other good news (I have high hopes), is that Boom! will be carrying some kind of Peanuts (as in Charlie Brown, Snoopy, et. al.) titles in the future.

On the Maintenance of Graphic Novels

Happy New Year!

I spent most of December on vacation, and came back to find 15 graphic novels on my desk, processed and ready to go into circulation. I'm taking care of one last step for all these new books--taping the outside edges of the front and back covers. As I said in the last post, this should extend their shelf life phenomenally. I've been going through rolls of the 3-inch book tape doing this, but I think it's paying off.

Most of the titles are just replacements that I ordered last year, but I did add The Big Adventures of Majoko 4 (978-1-897376-84-3), and The Baby-sitters Club: Claudia and Mean Janine (978-0-439-88517-1).

Side note: I took Amelia Rules home for my daughters to try. So far, so good. The Lightning Thief was a hit with the older girl and my husband.