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Graphic Novels & Comics October 2014
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Greetings!My name is Patrick Holt, and I'm a librarian at Southwest Regional Library. I'm also a lifelong reader of comics and graphic novels. Check out the contents of this month's newsletter in the box to the left. I hope you find these recommendations worthwhile, and please email me at pdholt@dconc.gov if you have any thoughts or questions.
Thanks and enjoy!
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Durham Comics Fest - October 2014
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Durham Comics Fest 2014 is this month!This year's event will feature appearances by George O'Connor, Jared Axelrod, Jeremy Whitley, and Brian Shearer, with activities and prizes for all ages. For full schedule and more information, visit durhamcomicsfest.org!
This year, Durham Comics Fest also features several programs that are co-sponsored by Durham Reads Together. Visit durhamreadstogether.org for schedule and details, and watch for a special edition of the newsletter too!
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Comics Fest Guests - Selected Works
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The Battle of Blood and Ink: a fable of the Flying City
by Jared Axelrod and Steve Walker
(From the publisher) If you’re visiting the flying city of Amperstam without the latest printing of The Lurker’s Guide, you might as well be lost. This one-sheet is written, edited, and printed by Ashe, a girl raised on the streets of the flying city, and is dedicated to revealing its hidden treasures and deepest secrets—including many that the overcontrolling government doesn’t want anyone to know. The stakes are raised when Ashe accidentally uncovers the horror of exactly how Amperstam travels among the skies and garners the attention of those who would rather that secret be kept in the hands of the city’s powerful leaders.
Soon Ashe is on the run from thugs and assassins, faced with the choice of imperiling her life just to keep publishing, or giving in to the suggestion of a rich patron that she trade in her voice and identity for a quiet, comfortable life. It’s a war of confusion for Ashe, but one thing is very clear: just because you live in a flying city, you can’t always keep your head in the clouds.
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Olympians series
by George O'Connor
In OLYMPIANS, O'Connor draws from primary documents to reconstruct and retell classic Greek myths. But these stories aren't sedate, scholarly works. They're action-packed, fast-paced, high-drama adventures, with monsters, romance, and not a few huge explosions. O'Connor's vibrant, kinetic art brings ancient tales to undeniable life, in a perfect fusion of super-hero aesthetics and ancient Greek mythology. -Amazon.com
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Princeless: Vol. 1, Save Yourself
by Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin
(From the back of the book) Collecting the first storyline of the multiple Eisner Award-nominated and multiple Glyph Award-winning series, follow the adventures of Princess Adrienne, a princess who's tired of waiting to be rescued. Along with her guardian dragon, Sparky, they begin their own quest in an all-ages action adventure designed specifically for those who are tired of waiting to be rescued—and who are ready to save themselves.
Chris Sims at Comics Alliance says that, "more than anything else, it’s a smart comic, and one of those solid all-ages books that never talks down to its audience... It’s not just good stuff, it’s the story Disney should’ve been telling for the past 20 years.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain, Matt Josdal and Brian Shearer
A comics adaptation of the classic story of Tom Sawyer, who witnesses a murder along with his friend Huck Finn, which is only the start of the adventure.
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New Titles at the Library
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Shoplifter
by Michael Cho
Corrina Park is going through a crisis. She's working as a copywriter in an ad firm until she can afford to start her "real" job as a novelist... which keeps not happening. One fairly mundane weekend is all it takes shake her out of her funk, once and for all.
Although Shoplifter is a fairly simple story and doesn't make any giant breakthroughs in the medium, its solid characterization and excellent modernist-flavored artwork make it a great addition to the realistic-fiction canon, and to the list of English-language works by and about folks of Asian descent as well. Recommended!
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Avengers
by Brian Michael Bendis and others
A team of intergalactic warriors that include Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Rocket Raccoon protect Earth from extra-terrestrial threats, including an invasion by the Badoon that threatens London. Includes stories that precede and follow this year's excellent film.
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Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel
by Jules Feiffer
Alan Cheuse at NPR says "Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer — now in his mid-80s— has been in the business for more than 60 years. So his first graphic novel, a darkly drawn confection in the noir tradition, called Kill My Mother, comes late in his career...ll this may make you feel — as it did me — that you're watching some lost Raymond Chandler film, with a script by William Faulkner. The characters tend to emote extra-large, in a way that makes me think of the expressionist histrionics in silent films... Overall it's pretty easy on the eyes, mainly because of Feiffer's by now familiar — and quite endearing — style of drawing wide-eyed, rangy, long-limbed figures, usually mostly comic, expressing joy or, as often happens here, distress. Figuring this one out as you look at the pages is a real brain-teaser — which may make you want to go back and read the entire thing again."
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Saturday, October 4, 2 p.m. Main Library - 300 N. Roxboro St. Questions? Call John Davis at 919-560-0125 Join our MeetUp group at meetup.com/graphic-book-club Enjoy comic books or graphic novels? Join us for the monthly meeting of Main Library's Graphic Book Club. This month we're reading WHATEVER YOU WANT! Read whatever you want, just bring a book you’re excited to talk about (whether to gush or to warn away). We’re doing free picks because Oct 4th is also the big weekend visit from Congressman John Lewis, who’s visiting Durham to help us kick off October’s Durham Reads Together program series. John promises his feelings won’t be hurt if you go listen to the famous civil rights activist instead of coming to the book club.
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Durham Reads Together - October 2014
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Durham Reads Together strengthens the community through a biennial celebration of reading. Reading the same book, and attending programs around its theme inspires the Durham community to discuss important issues, including race, family, identity, faith, education, culture, music and visual art.The selection for Durham Reads Together 2014 isMarch: Book One, Representative John Lewis's graphic autobiography, written with Andrew Aydin with art by Durham Comics Fest alum Nate Powell. (More about the book below.)Durham Reads Together will feature a month of programs and activities designed to start conversations about March and its themes, medium and subject throughout the community. For the complete schedule, visit durhamreadstogether.org!
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March: Book One
by John Lewis
A vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation, March is a graphic novel that is rooted in Lewis’ personal story, but also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
The first installation of a trilogy, Book One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.
Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book “Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.” Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.
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