MangaBlog continues to do a great job gathering together all the stories about the removal of Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from the San Bernardino County Library system. I’m surprised that so far we haven’t seen any commentary from library oriented publications about the removal process, which seems a little irregular to me. Well, the whole story will be a great reason to feature the book in displays for Banned Books Week. I haven’t read the book yet, but I want to.
I have to drive out to UMass Amherst for a work thing tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to my day being bracketed by a 2 hour drive. Is anyone else going to the ACRL NEC conference?
Next week is my last full week of work. After what feels like months of slow packing, there are actually empty spots on my bookshelves. Now I need to finish packing the books and start working on packing everything else!
3:06 pm on April 21st, 2006 1
Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics is a great book. I have only had the chance to flip through it but it is a wonderful book. I need to see if I can borrow it from Clare to read.
5:24 pm on April 21st, 2006 2
I read it in one (long) sitting. It’s a great book for the history of manga. Really!
There is some “offensive” content such as scenes of sex, blood/violence, etc. Did I say some? Sex with squirrls and tentacles. Nothing is missed. If there is a paragraph on it, there is a picture example. So I can see why some people would be squeemish to put it in the library. It looks like a book about cartoons with brave Astro Boy on the cover, but it does have adult contenet. Read it! It’s wonderful.
Anne, Clare hasn’t even read it yet. I bet we could put it in the next manga-exchange.
5:37 pm on April 21st, 2006 3
As soon as things settle down for me, I’m totally going to read that book.