Event Books: The Biggest Stories in Comics

If you have even a passing familiarity with superhero comic books, you know that “event books” (i.e. the Hollywood blockbuster story lines often featuring characters “crossing over” from their respective titles) are all the rage. Marvel Comics’ Avengers VS. X-Men event kicks off this week, but it’s just the latest in a series of big-time [...]

Calling All Comic, Graphic Novel, and Manga Readers!!!

The nominations for YALSA’s 2012 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list have been finalized!  All year I’ve been reading all the new graphic novels, superhero stories, and manga I can get my hands on to evaluate and nominate titles, because last year I was selected as a committee member for this list.  But the committee [...]

Lovely library book discussion groups

I know, I know, you don’t have any free time–what with all of the homework, extracurricular activities and whatnot, there is absolutely no time for something like a book group, right? After all, you have tons to read for school as it is. Well, I’m not going to dispute that you’re busy. Being a teenager [...]

Graphic Novels: Writing Your Own

During the last few years, CLPTeensburgh has included a lot of reviews and recommendations for fantastic Graphic Novels.  If you really like to read Graphic Novels, have you ever thought about writing one? Here is a short list of “How To” books that you can find at your local library: You Can Do a Graphic [...]

International Manga Library!

Last month Meiji University in Tokyo opened the International Manga Library on its Surugadai campus.   According to this article from the Japan Times Online, the library has over 2 million volumes of manga, and if you’re ever in Tokyo, you could become a one-day member. The Carnegie Library system doesn’t have a manga collection that’s [...]

Six Degrees of Michael Cera

Lately I’m noticing that Michael Cera is connected in a lot of ways to exciting developments in movies that are connected to exciting books (not coincidentally for teens).  And the people that he’s connected to are also exciting.  And the best part is that all of these developments have some kind of creative and funny [...]

Reads for a “Dark Knight”

If you’re like me, you’ve already seen Chris Nolan’s masterful The Dark Knight. And if you’re anything like me, you need more Batman. And more Batman. And even more Batman until you’ve stopped sleeping, started talking in a low-pitched, gravelly voice, and committed yourself to being a hero of the shadows. Well, rest assured, teens, [...]

Free Comic Book Day 2008 – Saturday May 3rd, 2008

    “Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores.” *** From manga to horror, superhero comics to those wacky teens from Riverdale, Free Comic Book Day has what you [...]

Meet the Pros at the ‘Con.

It’s that time of year again, the time when all fanboys, gamers, and fluent Klingon speakers emerge from the long, cold winter of no crossover storylines and Christmas releases of bad sci-fi movies. Yes, that’s right true believers, it’s COMICON TIME!! The 2008 Pittsburgh Comicon runs from April 25-27 at the ExpoMart in Monroeville. The [...]