We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
Any librarians in the Dodge City, Kansas area let your RPG fans know about Dodge City Public Library’s Dungeons & Dragons event. It will be held Tuesday March, 15, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00p.m. This event for Teens 13 through 19 years of age. When you get to the library you will need to go to the lower level meeting room. This is an event that other libraries can replicate fairly easily.
ICv2 is reporting that Mongoose Publishing will be releasing a history of RPG’s (Role Playing Games) entitled Designs & Dragons. It will cover 60 years of gaming in the RPG arena. As of the time of the article there has been no firm release date or other ordering information. Keep on the look out for this title, it sounds like it will make a nice addition to your library collection. If not for anything else, but there isn’t much out there on the history of RPG’s.
Librarians let all of your fantasy patrons know that HBO has announced that the Game of Thrones will debut on April 17th. It is based on George R.R. Martin’s first book in his Song of Fire and Ice fantasy series. Make the jump below to ICv2’s site for the brief article.
More and more comic books/graphic novels are being looked at for possible movies. The latest is Top Cow’s Crosshair, which has been picked up by Summit Entertainment. The story revolves around a former CIA assassin that is now a dad who finds out he has been programed to kill the president. The full article is linked below to ICv2’s site.
ICv2 & Anime News Network report that the new Pokemon Black & White Nintendo DS combined sold over 1 million units on it’s first day of release.
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19596.html
Librarians in the Seattle, Washington area let your manga patrons know that Sakura-Con has added Atsushi Suzumi, creator of Venus Versus Virus, to its guest list. Link below to the full article on Anime News Network. The con is April 22-24. Be aware that this could change with the recent Tsunami in Japan.
ICv2 has images of Cars 2 movie posters two are above link below to see the other two at ICv2’s site. Also enjoy the trailer below for Cars 2. The first movie and the upcoming movie are great to use to cross promote your dvd collection and children graphic novels in your library’s collection. Boom Studios did have the rights for Pixar, but it is now shifting to Marvel. However, Disney’s other properties are still at Boom Studios! Thanks to Yahoo! Movies for the trailer.
I just wanted to let our brothers and sisters in Japan know that we are thinking about them with the recent earthquake and Tsunami. We hope all of your loved ones are safe and well. I also want to extend this to all other countries that this is effecting.
Click on over to Yahoo, below, about Amazing Fantasy #15 selling for a record $1.1 million. This of course is the debut of Spider-Man. If you have any collectors of comic books that come to your libraries this can give you a talking point with them. This will demonstrate, even if you don’t really like the medium, you are interested in your patrons and what their interests happen to be.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/spider-man39s-debut-comic-sells-for-1.1-million
Let your library patrons that are interested in comic books and Japanese anime know about the link provided below. Marvel’s site has posted an article and has a couple of images from the new X-Men Anime series that will be coming out in Japan. When this series comes to U.S. shores libraries will need to consider purchasing this to have a great tie-in with United States comic books and Japanese Anime. You could use this to create new fans for both formats.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15331/first_look_x-men_anime_character_art