Workshop for LIANZA 2008 conference. A brief guide to the diverse landscape of comics and graphic novels, for librarians.

1. Comics and graphic novels in libraries

2. Audiences: Children boys girls Young Adults Adults

3. A comic about mid-life crisis: Posy Simmonds, Gemma Bovery

4. Why do people read graphic novels? Entertainment Fan / Otaku Looking for a good book Interested in the subject Learning language (French, Japanese)

5. There’s all kinds of comics! The Classics Commercial comics Underground comix Alternative comics ‘ Post-Alternative’ comics ‘ Art comics’

6. Comics come from all over the world from Israel: Rutu Modan, Exit Wounds

7. There are comics for kids

8. Tove Jansson, Moomin: the Complete Comic Strip (volume 1)

9. Joann Sfar, Little Vampire

10. Jeff Smith, Bone

11. Hergé, Tintin in the Congo

12. Cinebook www.cinebook.co.uk

13. Shaun Tan, The Arrival

14. There are comics for teens

15. Derek Kirk Kim & Jesse Hamm, Good as Lily

16. Craig Thompson, Blankets

17. Flight – an anthology of younger cartoonists

18. The Classics Charles Schulz, Peanuts (being collected by Fantagraphics Books)

19. George Herriman, Krazy Kat (being collected as Krazy and Ignatz by Fantagraphics Books

20. E. C. Segar, Popeye

21. Chester Gould, Dick Tracy

22. Dan Nadel, Art out of Time

23. Will Eisner, The Spirit

24. DC Comics: Showcase Presents series

25. Marvel Comics Essential series

26. EC Comics The EC Archives

27. Jack Kirby: “the King of Comics”

28. Osamu Tezuka: “ the God of Manga”

29. Osamu Tezuka, Buddha

30. Osamu Tezuka, Phoenix

31. ‘ Mainstream’ comics Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli, Batman: Year One

32. Alan Moore (et al), Watchmen, Miracleman, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top 10; James Sturm (et al), Unstable Molecules; Warren Ellis (et al), The Authority; Grant Morrison (et al), The Invisibles

33. Marvel Comics: Mark Millar (et al), Civil War Crossover Events

34. Neil Gaiman (et al), Sandman Brian K. Vaughan (et al), Y: the Last Man Vertigo – DC’s ‘mature readers’ imprint

35. Bill Willingham (et al), Fables Jeff Smith, 100 Bullets

36. Mike Mignola (et al), Hellboy

37. Underground comix Robert Crumb, Zap Comix

38. The ‘graphic novel’ Art Spiegelman, Maus

39. Seth, It’s a Good Life, if You Don’t Weaken Jason Lutes, Berlin Chester Brown, Louis Riel Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan Jaime Hernandez, Locas John Porcellino, Perfect Example

40. Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers

41. Raymond Briggs, Ethel & Ernest, When the Wind Blows

42. Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, From Hell

43. Lynda Barry, One Hundred Demons

44. Bandes Dessinées (European comics) Blutch, Blotch: Le Roi de Paris Edmond Baudoin, Le Chemin de Saint-Jean Joann Sfar, Pascin Jacques Tardi & JeanVautrin, Le Cri Du Peuple Frederic Boilet & Ben ôit Peeters, Tokyo est mon Jardin Philippe Dupuy, Hanté

45. Joann Sfar, The Rabbi’s Cat

46. David B., Epilectic

47. Manga!

48. Kawaii ! (cute) Matt Alt & Hiroko Yoda, Hello Please!

49. Manga: Kodomo – aimed at children Shōjo – aimed at girls Shōnen – aimed at boys Josei – aimed at young women (18-30) Seinen – aimed at young men (18-30) Yaoi – ‘boy love’ comics Yuri – ‘girl love’ comics Hentai – erotic comics Dōjinshi – fan comics

50. Yaoi - ‘ boy love’ comics Yuki Shimizu, Love Mode

51. Yuri – ‘ girl love’ comics Clamp, Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland

52. Crayon Shin-Chan (1992-) by Yoshito Usui Different ideas of what’s acceptable content for kids...

53. Shojo Shonen Shojo Beat Shonen Jump

54. Gender- bending manga: Rumiko Takahashi (Japan, 1957-), Ranma 1/2

55. Shojo – manga for girls (and liberated boys) Clamp, Cardcaptor Sakura Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket

56. Josei – manga for women (and men too!) Yayoi Ogawa, Tramps Like Us

57. Erica Sakurazawa, Angel Nest

58. Seinen – more mature ‘shonen’ manga Mochizuki Minetaro, Dragon Head Naoki Urasawa, Monster

59. Doujinshi – manga made by fans

60. Junko Mizuno, Cinderalla, Hansel & Gretel

61. American manga Amy Kim Ganter, Sorcerers and Secretaries Mark Crilley, Miki Falls

62. Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo

63. Non-fiction graphic ‘novels’ Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

64. Joe Sacco, Safe Area Goražde

65. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

66. Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe, The Cartoon History of the Modern World

67. Larry Gonick & Alice Outwater, The Cartoon Guide to the Environment

68. Books about comics Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics

69. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics Reinventing Comics Making Comics

70. from Scott McCloud, Making Comics

71. Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art

72. David Chelsea, Perspective for Comic Book Artists

73. Stan Lee & John Buscema, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

74. The How to Draw Manga series

75. Various authors, The DC Comics Guides

76. Some novels (the kind without pictures) about comics Tom De Haven, The Derby Dugan Trilogy Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

77. Comics anthologies Sammy Harkham (ed.), Kramer’s Ergot Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Eric Reynolds (ed.), Mome Chris Ware (ed.), McSweeney’s Quarterly, no.13 (the Comics Issue)

78. Anne Elizabeth Moore (series editor), The Best American Comics (annual, published by Houghton Mifflin)

79. www.comicsreporter.com Websites about comics

80. www.tcj.com

81. www.icv2.com

82. www.comicbookresources.com

83. www.newsarama.com

84. www.manganews.net