{"id":1125,"date":"2011-10-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:34:37","slug":"graphic-novels-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Novels Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cybils2011-Button-Rnd2.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cybils2011-Button-Rnd2.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In honor of the fact that I&#8217;ll be a Round 2 Judge for Graphic Novels during this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/\">Cybils Awards<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d post a roundup of some great graphic novel-related links that have come my way in recent days\/weeks. Also, rather fortuitously, the theme for next week&#8217;s ALA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/yalsa\/teenreading\/trw\/trw2011\/home.cfm\">Teen Read Week<\/a> is Picture It @ Your Library. Hope there&#8217;s a little something of interest to everyone here!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember the fabulous graphic novel <i>Fun Home<\/i> by Alison Bechdel (which was a past year&#8217;s Cybils nominee)? Well, Alison Bechdel is one of the editors&#8211;along with Jessica Abel, who wrote Cybils YA graphic nominees <i>Life Sucks<\/i> and <i>La Perdida<\/i>&#8211;of this year&#8217;s <i>Best American Comics<\/i>. Check out her <a href=\"http:\/\/graphicnovelreporter.com\/content\/what-year-alison-bechdel-co-editor-best-american-comics-2011-interview\">interview with GraphicNovelReporter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/graphicnovelreporter.com\/content\/eloise-nina-hilary-knight-talks-about-some-his-favorite-leading-ladies-interview\">HILARY KNIGHT is doing a graphic novel<\/a>! I love, love, LOVE Hilary Knight. I mean, he did the little comic strip illustrations in <i>Cricket<\/i> magazine! And he&#8217;s now got a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/hilary-knight#slide=1\">sketch blog<\/a> for <i>Vanity Fair<\/i>, too. <\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-DoWMMLrM2mY\/TpZB9CwFFnI\/AAAAAAAADFI\/mvKtjYkYdGw\/s1600\/Sita+Daughter+of+the+Earth.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sita-Daughter-of-the-Earth.jpg\" width=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t yet checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/campfire.co.in\/\">Campfire Graphic Novels<\/a>, a graphic novel publisher in India, go take a look&#8211;besides GN versions of some classic literature, they&#8217;ve transferred some traditional Indian tales and religious stories into the comic book format, like <i><a href=\"http:\/\/campfire.co.in\/sita-daughter-of-the-earth-p-434.html\">Sita, Daughter of the Earth<\/a>.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Courtesy of the NCTE, read a bit more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\/magazine\/archives\/122082\">how the term &#8220;graphic novel&#8221; was coined<\/a>, check out this intriguing <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ncte.org\/store\/building-literacy-connections-with-graphic-novels\">book on using graphic novels in the classroom<\/a>, and don&#8217;t miss Mr. <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.ncte.org\/t\/2669565\/6145664\/11717\/57\/\">Gene Yang&#8217;s essay on the same topic<\/a>&#8211;written in comic format!<\/li>\n<li>Check out Guys Lit Wire contributor Steve Berman&#8217;s look back at that classic Will Eisner comic <i><a href=\"http:\/\/guyslitwire.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/there-once-was-man-in-mask.html\">The Spirit<\/a>, <\/i>including recommendations for where to get started in your reading.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re looking for a great source of graphic novel information and reviews of GNs for audiences from kids to adults, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/noflyingnotights.com\/\">No Flying No Tights<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should be plenty to keep you busy this weekend. And, if you haven&#8217;t already, don&#8217;t forget to nominate your favorite GNs and other kids&#8217; and teen books for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/\">Cybils<\/a>! (Yep, we&#8217;re just going to keep harping on it until nominations close.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the fact that I&#8217;ll be a Round 2 Judge for Graphic Novels during this year&#8217;s Cybils Awards, I thought I&#8217;d post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,7,60,59,18,10],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-author-news","tag-book-news","tag-comix","tag-happenings","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}