John Tyler Community College Library Blog

Comics, graphic novels, sequential art, manga…these are all words for narrative told through both pictures and words. Once considered a throwaway item for kids, graphic novels now win major literary awards.

More attention from scholars means more attention from LIBRARIES.

Comics @ VCU Library

Check out Secret Powers in Style Magazine about the Comic Arts collection @VCU’s Cabell Library.

• Official repository for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
• Rare titles from Mad Magazine, Little Orphan Annie and X-Men
• MAUS (which we own) mandatory reading for incoming VCU freshmen in 2009
• Digitized version of Preventive Maintenance Monthly (drawn as training manuals for US Army by Will Eisner)

Read more about the collection on VCU’s site.

Graphic Novels @ JTCC Library

JTCC has a small collection of graphic novels. Try these:

• Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido. Film-noir tale with anthropomorphic animals. Mature themes.
• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Memoir of girl growing up in revolutionary-era Iran.
• MAUS by Art Spiegelman. WWII memoir. The Nazis are cats, the Jews are mice. Won the Pulitzer Prize.
• Stitches by David Small. Finalist for the National Book Award. Painful memoir of illustrator Small’s harrowing childhood.
• Watchmen by Alan Moore. Superhero tale;  early classic in the genre.
• Vietnamerica by GB Tran. Artist/author discovers his family history.

Help!

Help us build the book collection! You can do that by

• Checking out the books we have (and reading them)
• Telling us what titles are YOU want to read

Comments, please!