Meredith Wrote:
I read your last post about all of the classes you taught last semester (zoinks!) which now has disappeared.
Yeah, I pulled that post because I was worried that it was a little whiny, and when I redid my stats this morning after a good night’s sleep I realized my numbers were off slightly. My [...]

Lovecraft = Republican? You decide!
Scrapped Princess Trailer. I liked this anime.
I’m looking forward to Steamboy.

A round-up of comic book company lines.

I’ve been reading a bunch of posts and articles about graphic novels in libraries recently.
One thing that struck me about all of this is the way buying graphic novels for reluctant readers is often cited as a justification for adding manga or comics for libraries. It is understandable why this comes up so much — [...]

Lea linked to daredetectives, which shows some designs for an unproduced Harry Potter toy line. Look at Harry, Hermione, the bad guys, and Dumbledore. Cool stuff!

mlis wrote:
Hello. I would appreciate your help in selecting some librarian journals to subscribe to. I left my librarian job to go to grad school and no longer have easy access to librarian journals. If you had to choose 3 journals (Searcher or similar) to subscribe to, what would you choose? The CyberSkeptic™s Guide to [...]

Freckle blogs about the pink vs gray lit debate at Beatrice.

Christopher does some quick manga reviews, I agree with him about Times Two not being so great and Doubt! being very appealing. I’m just jealous he gets sent review copies of manga
Judging DC comic books by their covers

I’ve always liked Kare Kano, but I haven’t been reading many of the recent spin-off stories about Arima and Miyazawa’s classmates with the enthusiasm I had for the earlier volumes. In volumes 13 and 14, the focus turns back to our favorite overachieving high school students in love, as Arima decides to embark on a [...]

I blogged a bit about the new Inside Higher Ed site before, and I was surprised to see a comment on my old post from the editor of the Chronicle explaining that the Chronicle isn’t offering less free content than in the past. It was really the vanishing of the Site Sampler link and [...]

Man! There’s a sudden rush of questions –
Rebecca wrote:
Hello! You recommend a lot of manga series, but what non-manga series would you
recommend?
I’ve been falling back on the regular comics blogging lately!
A couple oldies but goodies - Zot! by Scott McCloud is one of my all-time favorites. I also like Mage by Matt Wagner.
I [...]

Lyle reads soccer manga Whistle!
Write a poem about world domination, win a comic about it {via}
Look, you can go through the lists of comics you want to pre-order, check the little boxes, and print it out!
Dorian goes through a stack of manga, I am also not a big fan of Tokyo Babylon despite my usual [...]