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Matthew Noe
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Applications Open for 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries

Contact @libcomix.bsky.social with any questions!

#libcomix 📚

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Applications Open for 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries
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October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM Everybody can reply
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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈
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Revising my figures from yesterday’s posts re: restrictions / bans in schools for #comics over the past 4 years, based on @penamerica.bsky.social data.

The trend I reported yesterday remains true, but these numbers are more accurate.

#libcomix #libraries #censorship

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October 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM Everybody can reply
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Comics Plus (LibraryPass)
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What are some of your favorite comics and manga?

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #ComicsPlus #DigitalComics #ComicsLover
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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Want more #comics / #manga / #graphicnovels reads?

Check out the GNCRT booklists:
www.ala.org/gncrt/awards...

#libcomix #readersadvisory
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM Everybody can reply
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Comics Plus (LibraryPass)
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Moni’s Pick 6 this month spotlights some of our best spine-chilling titles for a variety of ages, interests, types of horror, and preferred amounts of scariness. Spine-chilling stories are the absolute best during the Fall season, but especially for Halloween!

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #ComicSky
Six Spine-Chilling Stories for Halloween | Moni’s Pick Six - LibraryPass™
Moni Barrette recommends six spine-tingling comics for Halloween fans of all ages. #ReadAllTheComics
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October 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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OMG we had such a great first day @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social !

More than 300+ people stopped by today to #showupforlibraries - including #bannedbooksweek Honorary Chair @georgetakei.bsky.social

#skybrarians #libcomix #booksky #tlsky #comics #graphicnovels
October 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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Come find the comics librarians tomorrow and all weekend at #NYCC! We are in Writers Block #19 - which is right by Artist Alley aisle K/L

Grab some stickers, some ribbons and some resources to fight back about book bans!

#libcomix #graphicnovels #comics #booksky
October 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM Everybody can reply
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Matthew Noe
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Just read yet another work of comics nonfiction, out soon from a major publisher, that doesn't include the bibliography in the book itself, but instead points you to a website.

THIS IS NOT OKAY.

#libcomix
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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It's that time of year again!
Participate in live chat and trivia, experience a live dramatic reading of a graphic novel excerpt, and screen a movie!
#LibComix
ala-booklist.bsky.social Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social · Sep 30
Join the round tables of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social (GameRT, GNCRT, FMRT, IRRT, RRT, & IFRT) on 10/24 for a day of interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, and moral panic, as well as conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read: bit.ly/4gLpmh4
Promotional graphic for Intellectual Freedom Spectacular happening Friday, October 24 from 10:00-4:30 p.m. CT
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia, an autobiographically-inspired graphic novel, explores mental health and schizophrenia in a surprising and emotionally honest story with a fantastical cast of animal characters. #LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix
Christi Furnas holding a tabby cat and a Minneapolis Library card
September 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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Our young hero destined to defeat an evil lord embarks on a hilarious, action-packed journey filled with jokes, friendship, and villains having a mid-life crisis in Dragon Forged: Sword of the Champion by Eric Lide
#LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix
Eric Lide holding a South Brunswick Public Library Card with his book Dragon Forced sitting behind him.
September 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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Kids are still weird by Jeffrey Brown, chronicles his life as a parent while his children speak brutal truths and make unintentionally hilarious observations in this charming collection of comics.

#LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix
Jeffrey Brown holding his book Kids are still weird and his Chicago Public Library Card
September 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM Everybody can reply
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Comics Plus (LibraryPass)
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Our team at LibraryPass loves to bring comics and manga to a library near you. We also love to read them too! Rob Randle, our Director of Content Operations, shared his top 3 picks for favorite comics and manga available on Comics Plus:

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #ComicsPlus #ComicSky
September 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM Everybody can reply
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Comics Plus (LibraryPass)
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At LibraryPass, we’re proud to support libraries’ and schools’ efforts to expand + diversify their digital collections to engage readers of all ages. Our CRO, Jason Sockel, is a very strong hype man for reading and equitable access to digital content.

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #DigitalComics
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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The cover of Punk Rock in Comics illustrated by J.T. Yost captures the energy and attitude of punk music. Fans should make sure to grab a copy for a deep dive into the inception and history of punk.

#LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix
Creator J.T. Yost holding a copy of Punk Rock in Comics and his New York Public Library card.
September 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
@libcomix.bsky.social
Join best bug-buds Rhino-B and Stag-B on their adventures in Bug Village as they meet termites, save the local honey supply, and even help create a library! Bug Boys by Laura Knetzger is perfect for Narwhal and Jelly fans
#LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix
Creator Laura Knetzger holding her book Bug Boys and her Seattle Public Library card.
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM Everybody can reply
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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19
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A semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Raised by Ghosts by Brianna Loewinsohn highlights all of the messy complexities of growing up. #LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix
Creator Briana Loewinsohn holding her book Rasied by Ghosts and a card that says "I <3 books."
September 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM Everybody can reply
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Traveling to Mars by Mark Russell and Roberto Meli is one of a dozen titles in our Book Club Reader’s Guide, a free resource to help you launch a comics or manga book club at your library or school.

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #BookClub #ComicSky #MangaReader
September 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM Everybody can reply
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Matthew Noe
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So much insidious* censorship happening, so little reporting on it from larger outlets.

This is a bigger problem than the big flashy stories that go around about loud folks at local board meetings. Those MATTER but the scale is a lot different.

#libcomix

www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2...
Neither Korpus nor Gupta wants to have to make content changes to manga, and when they have to, Gupta said changes must be made “in respect to the original publisher and mangaka's intention.” The larger chilling effect of book-banning is that it makes publishers more likely to have second thoughts about publishing certain books at all. As a smaller publisher, Manga Mavericks chooses to avoid licensing certain types of more explicit content. Korpus emphasized how publishers are assessing risk when some books might be unsellable in entire states, saying, “publishers doing LGBTQIA+ work and even things that are politically sensitive, they're still publishing these things knowing they can be taken out of the lexicon.” Cruz emphasized the toll this can take on authors: “Authors stop writing the content that's getting censored.”
September 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM Everybody can reply
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Comics Plus (LibraryPass)
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Comics Arts Librarian and Founding Co-Director of the Center for Comic Studies, Pamela Jackson has three replicable steps for bringing comics and manga into academic settings.

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #DigitalComics #ComicsCollection #MangaLover
September 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM Everybody can reply
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Amie with an ‘i.e.’ is really trying to write that PhD
@librarylandia.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Alberta…

If you didn’t see - #comics are under attack in #Alberta:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#comicbooks #graphicnovels #censorship #libcomix #intellectualfreedom
theomoudakis.bsky.social Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · Sep 8
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
September 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM Everybody can reply
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Matthew Noe
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Upcoming Public Library Association webinar:

How Comics Can Increase Health Literacy and Engagement

Offered by Sarah Levin-Lederer, MPH from NNLM Region 7

#GraphicMedicine #libcomix 📚

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How Comics Can Increase Health Literacy and Engagement | ALAeLearning
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September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM Everybody can reply
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Comics Plus (LibraryPass)
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Have little to no budget for program ideas at your library? Moni offers some low/no cost ideas that you can apply at your library in this episode of ✨Tips from a Comics Librarian✨!

#ReadAllTheComics #ComicsPlus #LibComix #LibrarianTips #DigitalComics
September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM Everybody can reply
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Matthew Noe
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I've been remiss in posting, but:

@libjuiceacademy.bsky.social is offering my Introduction to Comics Librarianship course again in October!

It is a lot of fun and I'd love to have you join us :)

#libcomix 📚

libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/...
Introduction to Comics Librarianship - Library Juice Academy
Comics (and, if you like, graphic novels) have a long, complicated history in libraries, filled with book challenges and misguided views about the "value" of comics as reading. Despite the challenges ...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM Everybody can reply
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Comics Plus (LibraryPass)
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Comics and manga are for everyone!

This month, for older teens and adult readers, we’re spotlighting The Library Mule of Cordoba and Traveling to Mars both published by #AblazePublishing.

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #ComicSky
Comics Plus Book Club: September 2025 - LibraryPass™
This month, we're spotlighting The Library Mule of Cordoba (Ablaze) and Traveling to Mars (Ablaze) for older teens and adult readers.
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