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comicsbeat · 7 years ago

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Why can’t the world just be ruled by cabals of mighty librarian queens? Organizing to create policies, looking out for the marginalized, fighting censorship, advocating for the education and literacy of all – we’d be led into a golden age of knowledge and peace.

Or at least that’s the fantasy I conjured after attending my very first American Library Association annual conference this past weekend in New Orleans.

Okay, maybe it’s just the exceptional people who I hung out with – the librarians driving the growing acceptance of graphic novel collections around the world. Whip smart and passionate about their advocacy, I soon came to realize the thing that was most powerful about this group: not only do they love reading, they love it when YOU read, too, and they do everything they can to help more people enjoy reading.

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This was undoubtedly a banner year for the graphic novel pavilion at ALA. Perhaps it was the lure of the exotic New Orleans setting – supposedly attendance geos up whenever the ALAAC is held in the Crescent City. But maybe it was destiny. Not only was it my own first ALA (something that shocked everyone I told) but the number of publishers attending for the first time or returning after a long absence was much remarked upon. Titan, Rebellion, Humanoids, the French Comics Association, Europe Comics, Zenescope and several other were set up for the first time. Fantagraphics and Boom were returning after long absences. And even DC, long represented by distributor Random House, had finally returned with a booth promoting their Ink, Zoom and Black Label lines.

The only publisher missing in action? Marvel Comics, a fact often noted that drew some tough talk from librarians. But that will be returned to.

It wasn’t just publishers – the people who were attending for the first time, besides me, Berger Books; Karen Berger, Black Crown’s Shelly Bond, Lion Forge’s Carol Burrell, Aftershocks Steve Rotterdam, Dynamite’s Alan Payne and many, many others were experiencing the library market first hand for the first time, joining such veterans as our own Torsten Adair, and Random House Graphics’ Gina Gagliano.

They all came together in NoLA’s voodoo tinged fever swamp perhaps to present an alternative to the twitter culture wars and comics shop vs Wal-Mart narrative that was keeping everyone else busy. And it was also the cusp of a milestone obscure outside the library world but momentous inside it; the establishment of a Graphic Novel Round Table. In the hierarchy of the ALA this classification allows for membership dues, budgets and greater resources for organizing projects. The drive was spearheaded by Tina Coleman, who’s been organizing the graphic novel pavilion and the artist alley at ALA for several years, with a bold squadron of graphic novel library knights behind her as shown in this photo.

The effects of this new roundtable may not be seen directly outside the library world, but we’ll feel its influence in future endeavors. It also marks a momentous trek from the base camp that began back in 2002, when comics first invaded the ALA with a presentation by Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran, Art Spiegelman and Jeff Smith, four swashbuckling creators whose talents and charisma could not help but win over the library world.

Anyhoo, I know I’m waxing rhapsodical over a conference. Maybe it’s just the effects of dehydration and overheating as I wandered the 97-degree swamp of Chartres St – maybe it’s destiny.

So let’s go back! I arrived in New Orleans back on Thursday. Looking around the gate at Newark airport, most of my fellow passengers were women reading books. It was a very ALA bound crowd.

The event kicked off with a reception for the French Comics Association at the French Consulate in New Orleans. That was as swell as you might imagine, a huge, gracious mansion opened for the evening to the library cabal plus a few publishers and the French comics contingent of Barroux (Alpha), Cati Baur (Four Sisters), Aurélie Neyret (Cici’s Journal), Benjamin Reiss (Super Tokyoland), Julie Rocheleau (About Betty’s Boob), Eve Tharlet (The Wild Cat: Mr. Badger & Mrs. Fox) as well as French BD industry folks.

Flore Piacentino of the French Publishers Association gave a little talk and mentioned the influence of manga, bande desinee and “comics” coming together. I’ve often heard the three great branches of world graphic literature around the world categorized like this, and maybe it’s time for us in the US to accept the “comics” name with pride for our bombastic yet fantastic strain of storytelling. Standing in the hot backyard of the manse, with its mix of Haunted Mansion moldings and mid-century furniture, it was fun to hear of the panels and meetings to come.

After the reception, I grabbed some dinner with Karen Berger, Eva Volin and Robyn Brenner, Berger Books and the library world exchanging information over some super tasty shrimp and grits. Not only was this to be a weekend of smart talk, but a food marathon of surviving crusty bread, butter drenched fish and the occasional vegetable.

The next morning the conference kicked off. Here it must be mentioned that a teeny little con war broke out, GraphiCon vs Library Con. The first is a forum organized by the ALA GN interest group – and this year focused on adult graphic novel collection, a frontier topic where best practices are still being developed. Library Con was held across the hall and in somewhat the same time period and is organized by Random House. There was some grumbling about the timing, although both programs were arranged to fill up the time before Michele Obama’s keynote and the exhibit hall opening at 5:30. There were some great panels on both programs, and certainly a lot to do. Random House did stack the deck a bit by offering a free boxed lunch. I decided to eat half of an egg salad sandwich from Starbucks instead. This delicacy is no longer available in NYC – probably because it’s too fattening for diet conscious New Yorkers – but one half made a great breakfast and the second half made a good lunch!

Graphic Con kicked off with a panel on “Building and Justifying Adult Graphic Novel Collections in Public and Academic Libraries” with Andrew Woodrow Butcher, Amanda Melilli (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Marcela Peres (Lewiston Public Library, ME), and creators Ezra Claytan Daniels and Eric Shanower.

The main point of all the programming is that just as kids and YA collections – now well established at most libraries – started out slow, adult collections need to build on the success of those other age groups. Shelving remains a problem though. A recurring villain was “741.5” the Dewey Decimal category where graphic novels are shoved into one big blob. How to organize within this number – by author or series or age rating – is an ongoing issue.

Also what to collect is hard to pin down since there are more lists and awards for juvenile categories. (The Beat was mentioned several times as a resource for more information on graphic novels, giving me a serious case of “must do more!”) Adult collections are still built on a case by case basis. “Going online to find titles is not the best approach. One size doesn’t fit all since libraries don’t all have the same users and needs,” said UNLV’s Mellili. “You want it to be a reflection of the rest of your collection.”

Peres had a few success stories. She said the adult collection at her library has grown from 300 check outs a year to 1300 over the last five years. She’s also used innovative marketing approaches, such as a GN reading group held at a local brewery.

Shanower noted that his Age of Bronze was still finding an audience in libraries. “I don’t think there’s resistance like there might have been in 20th century, but there is still education that needs to be made.” Asked about whether his book has ever been challenged he joked “I wish it would be!”

Subsequent panels delved more into the topic from the publisher and creator sides. Image has a robust library program, led by Chloe Ramos Peterson, a former librarian herself, and the importance of catalogs, lists, newsletter and other resources for librarians was repeatedly mentioned. For creators, sometimes it does become a content issue – one scene may push a title from a comfy home in the YA section to an uncertain future in the adult collection, and it’s a decision creators have to weigh.

Reader resistance was also mentioned a few times. “Some adults are just embarrassed to be seen checking out comics,” said one librarian (sorry my notes don’t say who.) Overcoming this resistance with events and education is a slow but necessary step.

After the library conferences wrapped up everyone but me went off to see Michelle Obama speak. People had been lined up since 9 am – a different kind of Hall H indeed – and I didn’t want to get caught in a long line.

The exhibit hall for ALA has a kind of mini preview night – very mini as it’s only 90 minutes long – and after the keynote, everyone filed in. A big topic when I was around – maybe because I kept bringing it up – was the announcement of DC’s Wal-Mart exclusive. I had a lively discussion of the topic over dinner with retailer Brian Hibbs who, like myself, had been brought to the show by Lion Forge to liaise with the library world. (Brian promises he’ll have one of his epic columns about the experience next week.)

As lot of our discussion can be seen in the piece that I wrote the next morning. Brian feels strongly that exclusives that the DM can’t get are the wrong way to build a bigger audience for comics, but that’s his story to tell and I’ll leave him to state his own case.

Saturday, for me, was more of the same, wandering the vast hall to find the comics folks, and chatting them up. The Ernest Morial Convention Center – a place I haven’t been since before Katrina – is very very long and narrow and the show floor had the GN stage and pavilion at one end, with long stretches of library tech in between, studded with pockets of publishers.

Despite all the excitement over books, many exhibits at ALA are given over to actual library tech. I don’t really know what all those scanners and conveyor belt sorters did, so I will leave librarians to explain what they were looking for. Fantagraphics had set up with Norton, D&Q with McMillan, Uncivilized and Iron Circus in Consortium, Dark Horse and DC set up side by side in the Random House aisle. Some publishers made the decision to be in the distro area, but many other stuck it out in the GN pavilion, notably IDW/Top Shelf, Boom and all of the manga publishers on hand, Viz, TokyoPop, Yen Press and Udon. While it was all the way at the end of the hall, the Graphic Novel Stage served as a focal point.

There were many creators on hand, including a host of the DC Zoom and DC Ink writers, and of course the whole artist alley, which was small but significant. Due to the size of the hall, crowds would tend to come in waves. Much like BEA there were often long lines for signings, and librarians love free stuff just like everyone else.

I did attend the presentation DC Zoom and DC Ink lines led by VP Michele Wells and featuring writers Mariko Tamaki, Danielle Paige, Shea Fontana, Ridley Pearson, Kami Garcia, Meg Cabot, and Lauren Myracle. Unlike the long ago Minx (which this is often compared to) these lines feature veteran YA and kids authors who bring their own followings to an initiative aimed firmly at bookstores. It’s funny how retailers aren’t worried about THESE comics, isn’t it?

The mood was very different from the usual superhero hype panel, which usually consists of something like the following. “Remember issue #327 of Amygdala Man, where he finds a pair of underpants on the beach? Well in issue #600 we’re going to find out who they belong to and how it fits in with what Sprawlmeister has been up to.”

Instead the plans all spoke to the aspirational and emotional state of the young superheroes, with their motivations and family issues being covered to show how they overcame – or didn’t – problems to be heroes. Basic stuff really. The giveaway booklets for both lines featured sizable previews of most titles, and the art is sharp on these! As mentioned on twitter, DC Superhero Girls is the real disruption in the superhero biz, with thousands and thousands of copies sold and a whole generation of girls coming to love these characters.

Saturday night saw a sort of comics social event of the ALA, the Will Eisner Library Grant Reception, led by Carl and Anne Gropper and John Shableski. Grants were presented to two libraries for their projects, and a few speeches were made. Jason Latour (above) delivered a key note, noting how styrange it was “for a kid who spent a lot of time in detention to be talking to a room full of librarians.” Olivier Jalabert of Glenát also delivered some very funny remarks.

The event was another one where the spirit of Will Eisner was conjured. In a display of unique clairvoyance, he foresaw the rise of the graphic novel. Perhaps New Orleans was the place for his ghost to appear and see that his works were good.

Sunday was pretty much just more of all of this. I did the “Underrated and Overrated graphic Novels” panel, a terrifying chance to go on the record with some disses, but I won’t reveal what was said. My fellow panelist Gene Ha did repeatedly ding Chris Hart, whose “anatomy books” for artists are cheesy and full of mistakes, so I’ll go along with that: Christopher Hart isnogood!

I also popped into a panel featuring Mark Siegel in a panel discussion with First Second star authors Vera Brosgol and Ngozi Ukazu. At one point in the free-flowing conversation, Vera and Ngozi were asked why their artwork connects with readers both inside and outside the comics ‘geekdom’. Vera answered with a tip for young artists: “make the eyes bigger.” And the conversation went on into why humans are hardwired to love baby features, and sometimes cartooning might just tap into that – the appeal of “neoteny” in current comics styles hasn’t been much explored, so here’s your cue!

Also the great Raina, so often mentioned, was in attendance, although just to hang out, and led to this epic photo.

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Sunday afternoon was also the big day for the presentation to the ALA governing board about the Graphic Novel Round Table. The librarians presenting the proposal had been nervous about it all weekend. Honestly no one thought it wouldn’t be picked up. When a call for interested parties went out they hoped for 200 responses but got 1000.

And that’s really the bottom line about the ALA. Librarians love comics not because it’s a secret hobby they try to fob off on other people – graphic novels are highly circulated books in libraries. There is an avid readership and a growing need for more information about all of it. I think a lot of first time ALA attendees thought that their job would be trying to persuade librarians to give comics a try, but the reality is that curators are way ahead of that – they’re always looking for MORE information about the publishers and authors their patrons are interested in, and more information to justify their purchasing budgets. They are hungry for more books that people can read and enjoy.

Far from the roil of the DM, graphic novels were clearly on the upswing “Graphic novels are big and they’re just going to get bigger,” someone at the Disney booth, of all places, told me.

Creator Frank Cammuso had an even more blunt assessment. “I think libraries saved comics,” he told me. Looking back at how comics emerged from the wreck of the post speculation market into the manga-fueled era of bookstore comics, and the recovery following Borders going under, library sales have risen steadily, an invisible but integral part of the business for publishers smart enough to get in on it. The numbers don’t lie: There are an estimated 119,487 libraries in the US, including 16,000 public libraries and nearly 100,000 school libraries. A hit in this market dwarfs the direct sales market, and doesn’t even show up on Bookscan.

So yeah, it was a good time. Despite all the shit going on in the outside world, I couldn’t help but feel optimistic as I made one last stroll through the feels-like-105-degree sauna of New Orleans. Perhaps I was just infected with a swamp dream, maybe it was just the low-stress experience of spending a whole weekend surrounded by smart, literate people. Maybe I was just bathed in the smiles and fellowship of people talking about the thing they love. For me, the ALA in New Orleans was the time and place to be feel good about what we’ve accomplished and look forward to doing even more.

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Graphic-Con is only a week away!

I’m very excited to be returning. I’ll be at table A23 in Artist’s Alley this year. Can't wait!

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The GraphiCon schedule is here!

Are you attending ALA Annual Conference and looking for some geeky and comic sessions to attend? Fret no more – GraphiCon is here! GraphiCon is a roundup of all the geeky and comic programming happening at ALA Annual Conference. It is kicked off at the Graphic Novel Friday Forum and goes on until the end of conference.

Aside from the list of panels there is also an artist alley, Graphic Novel and Gaming Stage on the exhibit floor (more details coming soon) and a Gaming Lounge (sign up for an escape room experience here)!

Check out the roundup of panels from all sorts of divisions, round tables and offices within ALA. The sessions with ⚡ are brought to you by the Graphic Novels & Comics in Libraries Member Interest Group (MIG).

Graphic Novel Friday Forum: Read More, Read Better - Learning with Comics and Graphic Novels ⚡

Date/Time: Friday, June 23rd, 12pm-4pm

Location: McCormick Place, W190b

The forum this year focuses on reading more and learning with comics and graphic novels. Topics range from teaching STEAM to learning grammar (and yes, Gene Luen Yang is the keynote speaker).

ALA Play

Date/Time: Friday, June 23, 7:30pm-10pm

Location: Hilton Chicago, Stevens Center, Salon A

Join the Games and Gaming Round Table (GAMERT) for an evening of exploration, play and making.

Auditorium Speaker Series featuring Gene Luen Yang

Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 8:30am-9:30am

Location: McCormick Place, W375b/Skyline

Yang is a long-time educator who champions comics and graphic novels as educational tools in the classroom and has delivered a TEDx Talk on the subject.

The Diagnostics of Wattpad: Leveraging FanFiction to Develop Teen Library Collections

Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 8:30am-10am

Location: McCormick Place, W184d

Learn how teens read and share their own stories with fans across the world and leverage Wattpad's popularity to develop the young adult collection in your library!

Graphic Memoirs: how non-fiction graphic novels bring real lives to life⚡

Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 10:30am-11:30am

Location: McCormick Place, W175b

In this panel comics creators will explain how they approached their subjects, how they decided what to leave out and what to include, and the extent to which they inserted themselves into the narrative.

Streaming Video and Graphic Novels from an Acquisitions Perspective: Unusual Workflows

Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 10:30am-11:30am

Location: McCormick Place, W178a

Join us as we discuss the challenges posed by streaming video and graphic novels from an acquisitions perspective. Two librarians will identify the issues, describe what has worked for them, and discuss how to build upon existing library-vendor partnerships to better meet user needs.

Keywords to Mastery Game: An active learning approach to discover research topics

Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 1pm-2:30pm

Location: McCormick Place, W176b

A fun and interactive hands-on workshop where you build and play your own low-tech game that helps students gain keyword and natural language processing skills for database searching. Brought to you by GAMERT.

Comics Are For Everyone!

Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 3pm-4pm

Location: McCormick Place, W176b

Celebrate the independent spirit and creator-owned ethos in graphic novel publishing with Image Comics and some of their creators.

Running a Library Presence @ Fan Conventions, Festivals, and Events⚡

Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 3pm-4pm

Location: McCormick Place, W474b

Learn about running panels for library staff and educators, offering readers' advisory and research help, promoting diverse material, showcasing items from special collections, and running a pop-up library lounge!

Stay and Play: Create Open Library Spaces and STEM Material Collections for Play-Based Discovery Programming

Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 10:30am-11:30am

Location: McCormick Place, W175c

Learn how to re-resource your collection to include activity kits that inspire innovation, open-space programming pitfalls and lessons learned, and programming ideas for all budget levels.

International Comics - Culture & Creation Beyond America ⚡

Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 1pm-2:30pm

Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Jackson Park/CC 10AB

Come hear how fandom and creator processes differ in other places, and how much common ground we really do share.

Fandom Programs for Tweens, Teens, and Adults

Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 1pm-2:30pm

Location: McCormick Place, W187c

Give fans who are passionate about genres, characters, games, and book series plenty of reasons to return to your library again and again. You’ll walk away with inspiration and ideas that can be used with a variety of fandoms and interests at your own library!

Comics Roundtable: What does the future of comics librarianship look like? ⚡

Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 3pm-4pm

Location: McCormick Place, W476

Bookseller Andrew Woodrow-Butcher and librarian Lindsay Gibb will be leading a discussion with other comics librarians and professionals about the conversations we need to be having around comics in libraries.

CANCELED Auditorium Speaker Series featuring Bill Nye & Gregory Mone

Date/Time: Monday, June 26, 2pm-3pm

Location: McCormick Place, W375b/Skyline

Science educator, television presenter, media personality, mechanical engineer, and New York Times bestselling author William Sanford "Bill" Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is joined in this session by co-author Gregory Mone, a novelist, science journalist, speaker, and children’s book author.

Telling Their Stories through Graphic Novels - Views from Behind the Fence

Date/Time: Monday, June 26, 3pm-4pm

Location: McCormick Place, W176b

A school librarian and school library professor will describe the 2016 Will Eisner Innovation Grant Award project where incarcerated students wrote and story‐boarded the text for a graphic novel based on their gang experiences. Participants at this session will learn how they can replicate this writing and visual literacy program at any school level.

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To anyone who picked up my free ebook postcards, there’s been a glitch in the free status on Amazon. It was free yesterday but isn’t today when it should have been. It will be back to free status tomorrow, so if you check then you’ll be able to get it. If you ended up inadvertently buying it, please get in touch so we can work something out. You can contact me via email on: [email protected].

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Aside from GraphiCon, the Friday Forum, Artist Alley and so much more, we also have a Graphic Novel and Gaming Stage! All of these sessions will be held on the same stage within the Exhibit Hall at ALA Annual Conference, Friday, June 23rd through Monday, June 26th.

Friday, June 23

5:45pm-6:35pm – DC's Young Animal

This panel will discuss how the themes, characters and plot devices in these graphic novels from DC’s Young Animal will engage with readers and patrons like few other works in the industry can today.

Saturday, June 24

9:30am-10:20am – The Rise of Graphic Novels for Kids in Europe and the USA

European and American publishers and authors discuss the emergence of the format and its phenomenal rise internationally in the past decade.

10:30am-11:20am – Hazardous Tales and Science Fiction with Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale will give the audience a sneak peek of the next Hazardous Tales book as well as discuss his recent science fiction graphic novel, ONE TRICK PONY.

11:30am-12:20pm – Spotlight on Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation with adapter Damian Duffy and illustator John Jennings

They will discuss the process of working with this mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.

12:30pm-1:20pm – What Does An Idea Look Like? A Conversation About Creativity with Grant Snider, author of The Shape of Ideas

On this panel, he will share the secrets to his own creative process and share tips on how to keep ideas flowing.

1:30pm-2:20pm – VIZ Media Presents - Manga!!

Join us as we talk about which manga are currently the most popular on the scene as well as exciting new series coming soon!

2:30pm-3:20pm – Creator Spotlight: Jessica Abel

Super Genius publisher Terry Nantier speaks with Abel about her long career and why TRISH TRASH is the heroine America needs right now.

3:30pm-4:20pm – Category or Genre: What’s Next for Graphic Novels?

Does the unique nature of the medium (and its readers) drive a need for graphic novels to always have their own special place on the shelves?

4:30pm-5:00pm – DC Super Hero Girls Original Graphic Novels

Shea Fontana will discuss how these new works from DC are relating to young girls everywhere, with themes of empowerment, friendship and teamwork prevalent throughout. Q&A to follow!

Sunday, June 25

9:30am-10:20am – How to write for children

An overview of graphic novels for kids, from classics (like “Tintin”, “Boule & Bill”, etc), right up to the present day. How do you think up a story for a three-year-old, an eight-year-old or a young-adult?

10:30am-11:20am – Comics at the frontier of a new literary movement

Learn how artists can use genre conventions to ease readers into a completely different side of the comics scene, and see what’s possible when artists are able to take you beyond your assumptions. The popularity of genre has given fans an introduction to the art of comics, and these panelists are using that to show the world that the future of the medium goes beyond any one category!

11:30am-12:20pm – Image Comics 25th Anniversary Celebration

Comic creators Ryan Browne, Marjorie Liu, Jim Rugg, Gregg Schigiel, Tim Seeley, & Skottie Young speak about their experience of Image Comics throughout the years & reflect on how the company's history has impacted their own career trajectory.

12:30pm-1:20pm – Comics for Teens: Discovery in the Library

A look at what has worked in the past as well as what tools can be used to grow readership in this category.

1:30pm-2:20pm – A Monstress Discussion with Author Marjorie Liu

The author will describe her creative process, including inspirations and research methods, and will take questions from the audience.

2:30pm-3:20pm – Check out Dynamite in 2017

A discussion of Dynamite’s exciting current and future releases.

3:30pm-4:20pm – Liberties at work and Creator’s ownership

Artists come together to discuss the different creative methods in France and the USA: liberty of choices, schedules, production, printing, etc.

Monday, June 26

9:30am-10:20am – Champion of the Graphic Novel: Will Eisner at 100 Years

This year we celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday with a conversation about his contribution and commitment to the idea of graphic novels as a true form of literature. The discussion will also cover the relationship between the library world and the growth of the comics industry and more specifically how librarians helped to define and grow the graphic novel category.

10:30am-11:20am – Table-Top Games 101

This panel of gaming veterans, including game publishers and distributors, will cut the red tape so each library knows which games to bring into their library.

11:30am-12:20pm – Disney Manga: family friendly fun!

With titles brought directly from Japan and our own original titles made in collaboration with Disney’s team, we want to break down the misconception that all manga is inappropriate for little ones and encourage young readers with this fun line of graphic novels.

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