Thanks to Marvel’s website for letting us see the first full length trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger trailer. Check it out below.
DC Nation
An interesting team up that librarians might tell their readers of DC Comics and animation fans about. On DC’s site it is reported that Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network will team up to bring about DC Nation. When this will actually become part of Cartoon Network’s programing in 2012. However, this will be interesting to see if DC can sustain a block of Cartoon Networks program scheduling. Some titles mentioned was the current Young Justice series and a new Green Lantern series. Jump over to DC’s site for the articles.
Last Unicorn Event
Attention librarians in the Emeryville, California area. On March 29th at the Emeryville Barnes & Noble, Peter S. Beagle will be signing his Last Unicorn graphic novel beginning at 7:00 p.m. Let all your patrons know so they can go out and support the medium. Libraries could also take this opportunity to get your own copy of the Last Unicorn graphic novel signed. IDW’s site is linked below for more information.
Yu-Gi-Oh Gold!
Librarians that have Trading Card Gamers will want to pass this news along to them. Especially if a patron is into Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole. This June Konami is releasing Yu-Gi-Oh Gold Series 4: Pyramids Edition only to hobby retailers (Comic books stores/Gaming stores). Hobby stores will also get 2 new playmats and there will be a third playmat that will only be available at stores that are Official Tournament stores. Jump over to ICv2 for the brief article.
Watch out for that Sucker Punch
This looks like it could be a fun movie for the weekend. One just won’t be able to think of this movie as a serious movie…just a fun shoot ’em up. Gamers will probably like it along with your library’s science fiction, graphic novel, anime fans. Check out the trailer below thinks to Yahoo Movies.
Rodrick Rules out this Friday
This Friday brings us the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie. Based on the combined novel/graphic novel by Jeff Kinney. The trailer is below provide by Yahoo Movies.
Ep. 3 Tips & Tricks Part 2: Free Comic Book Day
Library that have a comic shop that they do business with can cordinate Free Comic Book Day with them. Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday of every May. This year it is on May 7, 2011. The local comic shop purchases these “Free Comic Books” for around $.20 – $.25 per issue, so if you want to order some titles to place within the library the comic shop might ask you to reimburse them for the expense. When you look at the titles available you will notice that there is something for all ages (click link below to Free Comic Book Day’s website). Therefore, librarians won’t have to worry about a child picking up an issue that is geared for a teenager or mature reader.
You can ask if they could give you a selection of titles with their store’s name stamped on the comic. However, the amount of books you receive will be by chance unless you work something out with the owners. Royce does this with his comic book shop and the owner gives him coupons to hand to his patrons to get a free comic when they go to the store. The cool part with Royce’s contact is that the owner draws an image on the coupon so the patron also gets a free piece of art.
My library purchases our “Free Comic Books” and by the time we receive them the day is past. Because this happens we have a Free Comic Book Week after the actual weekend. We have the children issues at the front desk and the young adult titles on the bookshelf tops in their area.
When they are first place out to the public we have a limit of issues they can get and then by the end of the week we begin to lift that restriction for patrons that really want another title. We usually allow three issues per patron. We don’t limit the age of what the patron is either. There are adult patrons that read graphic novels and will appreciate getting a couple of issues for free.
Really who can resist free!
Ep. 3 Tips & Tricks Part 1: DVD’s/Graphic Novel Displays
Use DVD’s and graphic novels together to promote both sections within your library. As Royce stated this is a fairly easy display to make. It can go inside a display cabinet or on a display table. Use some titles that patrons of your movie section might not realize are based from a graphic novel. Some titles mentioned in the episode were” 300; Road to Perdition; & Ghost Town.
If a parton is just checking out the DVD staff can mention that the graphic novel, it’s based on, is right there for check-out as well. Tell them it’s like a novel, there will be parts of the story left out of the movie or changed and if they want to get the full story they will want to read the graphic novel. If part of the display is checked-out, that is what you are after. Just go back to your collection and grab another DVD and graphic novel.
Introducing Wonder Woman
Warner Bros. has released the photo above of Adrianne Palicki in the costume they will have her wearing in the new Wonder Woman series. The article, linked below, from ICv2’s site states that the pilot/series for Wonder Woman is currently being shot. If the series should take off it could draw new interest in your library’s Wonder Woman titles.
Quake Performance to help Boost Japanese Moral
Anime News Networks site has posted a video from Youtube featuring several Japanese voice actors. These actors lended their talent in a performance to help boost the moral of all of Japan during this time of crisis. Below is the link to see who all took part in the performance and you can see the video below. It takes a little bit of time for the video to download so please be patient.