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.
Cryptozoic Entertainment is planning on releasing the 15th World of Warcraft Trading Card Game expansion set for July. The set will be entitled “Twilight of the Dragons”. Be sure to pass along this information to your patrons that are into gaming. Link below to ICv2’s article.
Librarians let all your gamers know about this contest. Dark Horse is having another contest where two winners will win a signed copies of the Art of Alice book and lithograph. EA Games is helping co-sponsor this contest. Contestants will have to submit fan art by May 10th to be entered in the contest. Below is the link that will let them know the official rules on Dark Horse’s site.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/365/win-copy-art-alice-madness-returns-and-signed-lith
ICv2’s site is reporting that Sony and MGM are financing a 23rd James Bond film. Daniel Craig will be James Bond again and along with him Judi Dench will be M. James Bond fans will rejoice. This character is enough of an action “super” hero that your library’s comic book fans will more than likely be interested in this news. Link below to the full article.
Librarians that have gamers that come in can use this as talking points. HeroClix by WizKids have added the Street Fighter license to their HeroClix line. There will be a starter pack of six characters, for $19.99, and/or gamers can purchase individual packed figures, for $2.99. The single packaged figures are a new marketing strategy for WizKids which usually packages their gaming pieces four to a box. The line is slated to be available August 10, 2011. Follow the link, to ICv2, for the complete story.
Librarians in the Illinois area and Northern California area need to relay this information to their patrons that like JPop. The group Flow will be performing at the Anime Central convention in Illinois, on May 20th, and again over the May 27-30 weekend, at the FanimeCon 2011 MusicFest. Watch the bands two announcements below.
Marvel’s site is sharing a behind the scenes video for the release of Avengers: Earth’s Mightest Heroes series. The seriesis available today, April 26th and watch the video below.
Librarians let your patrons know that Dark Horse’s site is having another contest. This one is a Star Wars: Crimson Empire III related contest were the person that enters just has to put text to the above panel. Entries have to be posted on Dark Horse’s site by April 29. This will appeal to your comic book patrons and the patrons that enjoy Star Wars. Linked below is the contest page.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/363/star-wars-friday-4-22-11-write-crimson-empire-iii
ICv2’s site is reporting, linked below, that Infinitum Nihil company has hired the Tron: Legacy writers to write the movie adaptation of Rex Mundi. Infinitum Nihil is Johnny Depp’s production company so hopefully this has some steam behind it now that writers have been hired. For those unfamiliar with the story, it is an alternate history story about the search for the Holy Grail in a world still ruled by the Catholic Church.
Akira is facing the same question that arose with the cast of The Last Airbender. Akira is being looked at for a live action movie from Hollywood. At this time Warner Bros. is wanting the location of the story changed from Tokyo to New York. By doing this they are also recasting the movie with Anglo actors, instead of casting actors with an Asian background. The question is why does Hollywood feel the need to change the ethnicity in a story to make a movie? Even with the location changed to New York, we are the United States where all ethnic backgrounds are to be blurred. Check out the full story at ICv2’s site linked below.
When shelving graphic novels we use the “One-Stop-Shopping” method. We catalog our graphic novels just like all of my library’s material. However, when we shelf the graphic novels/manga we use the title or character on the spine label and in the location setting in our cataloging system. We also set aside a specific section for our graphic novels/manga, this allows people to know right where to go for graphic novels/manga. It’s just like when libraries have separated out Science Fiction or Mysteries into their own section within the library. We use “GN” (Graphic Novel) and “GN-NF” (Graphic Novel Non-Fiction) as the main shelving location for the graphic novel/manga section.
Using Batman and Detective Comics titles as our examples, when we label these two titles, both titles can be found under the location of Batman. If you use the writer on the spine for the location the Batman titles would be sprinkled throughout the graphic novel section. Our patrons like the fact that they can go straight to the graphic novel section of the library, look under Batman and find all of the Batman titles we currently have available in one spot on the shelf (GN, Batman, instead of GN, O’Neal). With our Non-Fiction titles we do use the authors last name, because it is usually only one book we are dealing with not a series.
This is just how we shelf our graphic novels/manga. There is no right or wrong way. This is just an example of how shelving can be simplified.