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Robin B.
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She/her. Librarian, Comics Advocate, cat lover. Past-President of the ALA Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table. 🖤🩶🤍💜
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Robin B. @robin.noflyingnotights.com · Oct 19
In public libraries in teen services and in comics for over 25 years. Happy to talk libraries and storytelling (prose, comics, on screen, audio). Find me at library and comics conventions. Served on multiple library and comics awards juries. Up for writing and speaking gigs - check my handle.
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This one is just a ton of fun, for both of them and Derek Jacobi.
January 30, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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GNCRT and the Rainbow Round Table are pleased to announce the Collaboration List titles for 2026! View press release here: bit.ly/4t4iMbl
Graphic Novels and Comics Round table and the Rainbow Round Table announces their Collaboration Core List for 2026. Graphic novels by and about LGBTQIA+ people for all ages and in a range of genres with diverse characters and stories
January 28, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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@matthollingsworth.com @teetov.bsky.social Jordie Bellaire Letizia Cadonici, and Atsushi Kaneko @kernedout.bsky.social @benapplegate.com (So many talented folks working on such great books!) (3/3) So excited to have an award for comics for adults in the library world!
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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Series winners & honors Marjorie Liu @sanatakeda.bsky.social @jamesthefourth.bsky.social @martinsimmonds.bsky.social @adityab.net @dylantodd.bsky.social Steve Foxe Elsa Charretier @tylerboss.bsky.social @johnjpearson.bsky.social David Romero @alisonsampson.bsky.social @jorgefornes.bsky.social (2/3)
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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Outstanding Comics Award for Adults announced from @libcomix.bsky.social www.ala.org/news/2026/01...
Congrats to fiction winners & honors! Anders Brekhus Nilsen @jesselonergan.bsky.social @hakunette.bsky.social
And nonfiction winners & honors @pkuper.bsky.social @benpassmore.bsky.social (1/3)
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘Tongues,’ ‘Insectopolis’ and ‘The Night Eaters’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Adults Awards
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘Tongues,’ ‘Insectopolis’ and ‘The Night Eaters’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Adults Awards
www.ala.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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And to the series winners & honors @esofii.bsky.social Tehlor Kay Mejia Junyi Wu @glowingraptor.bsky.social @kayleerowena.com @rosiesrambles.bsky.social Shazleen Khan Bill Masuku @gigimurakami.bsky.social @lucyknisley.bsky.social Whitney Cogar (3/3)
January 27, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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And nonfiction winners & honors Cindy Chang, Cristina Rose Chua @danielmiyares.bsky.social Anne Lambelet (2/3)
January 27, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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The Outstanding Comics Award for Children was announced from @libcomix.bsky.social
Congrats to fiction winners & honors! @paigewalshe.bsky.social @galegalligan.bsky.social @charmgardens.com @raulthethird.bsky.social Elaine Bay Eleonora Bruni Rob Leigh www.ala.org/news/2026/01... (1/3)
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘Froggy: A Pond Full of Pals!’, ‘How to Draw a Secret’ and ‘Witches of Brooklyn’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Children Awards
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘Froggy: A Pond Full of Pals!’, ‘How to Draw a Secret’ and ‘Witches of Brooklyn’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Children Awards.
www.ala.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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And of course to the series winners & honors @kamigarcia.bsky.social @gabrielpicolo.bsky.social @tonyfleecs.bsky.social It's so exciting to finally have a good way to recognize comics series within the library world. (2/2)
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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The Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults is announced from @libcomix.bsky.social Congrats to fiction winners & honors! @juniba.bsky.social @taylor-robin.bsky.social @keezyyoung.bsky.social And nonfiction winners & honors @brianabreaks.bsky.social @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social Debbie Tung (1/2)
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘The Boy Wonder,’ ‘Raised by Ghosts’ and ‘Teen Titans’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Young Adults Awards
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘The Boy Wonder,’ ‘Raised by Ghosts’ and ‘Teen Titans’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Young Adults Awards
www.ala.org
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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Also, from 18 years of experience with comics and readers, teens read up, and adults read down. The borders of the marketing categories are permeable!
January 27, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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Librarians, Hello Sunshine just got a much deserved Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults honor from ALA/GNCRT. If we want more comics we know teens’ll love: get it on every library shelf. With our support, we’ll get sequels, & creators like @keezyyoung.bsky.social can keep making amazing work.
keezyyoung.bsky.social Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Sep 24
Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics

Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...
cover of hello sunshine featuring alex laying in a red flowers with eyes. red hands reach up from the ground to touch him. in the background the other four kids and cass the dog stand in a line in a field of daisies a photo of alex with his back to the camera facing a red monster with daisies for eyes on the ceiling alex and noah kissing awkwardly the protagonists from hello sunshine sitting in a row looking nervous with the daisy eyes monster behind them in the darkness. in the center of the panel is an inset panel showing a cassette tape
January 27, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Exciting news! 🎉

The inaugural Outstanding Comics Awards was announced today

Each award has three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and series!

🧵 for press releases
Browse the Awards winners and honorees on our site
www.ala.org/gncrt/awards...

#LibComix
Graphic Novels and Comics Round table announces the 2025 Outstanding comics awards for Adults, Young Adults, Children for Fiction, Non-fiction, and series. Book covers of the winners in the background.
January 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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George Michael did not write the greatest coming out song ever in 1990 for you motherfuckers to claim entertainment only just got gay.

youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A?...
George Michael - Freedom! ’90 (Official Video)
YouTube video by georgemichaelVEVO
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December 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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BREAKING. Enormous news in the hockey romance world...
I am thrilled to announce that CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR FIVE, a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. #omgcp 🏒🥧💕
A cell phone and rolling pin on a table surface. The cell phone screen shows a text exchange between an unknown person and ERIC BITTLE. The unknown person is sending Bitty a picture of a pie going into Betsy 2.0, an oven.
December 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?
jenreadsromance.bsky.social Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · Dec 3
SCREAMING at these headlines calling Heated Rivalry a YA series.
smhaustralia.nzcow.com The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · Dec 3
📢 Adapted from the hugely popular YA book series, Heated Rivalry balances in-you-face sex scenes with a tale of sweet romance.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I love both the book and the movie! So good, and perfect for the age it's aimed at.
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I will be attending this year, representing comics librarians everywhere! More news on that soon, but just look at this amazing poster.
massmice.bsky.social Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo @massmice.bsky.social · Oct 24
Hello, MICE friends! Two pieces of news, we want to show you our gorgeous poster art for MICE 2025 by Matt Smith! And…our Exhibitors Page is live! Check out the link below for a sneak preview at who’s coming to MICE!

www.micexpo.org/exhibitor-li...
A colorful graphic with a cartoon mouse holding comics The text reads, “Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, micexpo.org MICE Dec 6 + 7 2025. Free Admission with Registration! Over 200 Artists and Writers Illustration by Matt Smith”
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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This is also the scene that I want to show to anyone and everyone about why this show is so magnificent.
artofchira.bsky.social chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Oct 10
since this thread is getting traction again, let me rec you the Canadian comedy miniseries Slings & Arrows, which centers on a shakespearean theatre company exploring the makings of putting on a show. 3 seasons, 6 eps each.

scene that sold me to watch it ages ago:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2tH...
Slings & Arrows Ophelia
YouTube video by Cornelius Woodrow (Last player on the server)
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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So excited to see this picked up by 23rd St!
bigbigtruck.com bigbigtruck | 🍋 CITRUSCON 2/27-3/1 @bigbigtruck.com · Oct 1
been sitting on this for a year now and I can finally announce it!
ACQUISITION DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PUBLISHER'S MARKETPLACE: EK Weaver's SHOT AND CHASER, an adaptation of the author's webcomic, taking place over the course of 24 tumultuous hours in the lives of soulmates and amateur storm chasers as they follow a supercell, to Tess Banta at 23rd Street, for publication in 2027, by Anjali Singh at Anjali Singh Agency (world).
October 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I would love to move to New York just so I could vote for mayoral candidate Mamdani- he speaks to me in a way that very few politicians have in recent years
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM