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  • Comics, Giant Squid, Grimm, Internet

    Become a Garfield Illustrator

    23.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    This Digital Inspiration blog post entitled, informatively, Create your own Garfield Comic Strip, will introduce you to the wonderful world of, well, creating your own Garfield comic strip. In summary, you can download this application and drag and drop (so you can do it if you can’t draw) and hey presto! I guess it’s similar to creating your own giant squid (mine has now swum 180 kilometres and most recently beat up a diver).


  • Comics, Movies, Sci Fi, Simon

    Green Lantern, silver screen

    01.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    The Green Lantern film is going ahead and should be out in 2010, which is good news if you’re a fan of the comic hero, or enjoy film adaptions of superhero comics. Green Lantern isn’t one particular hero, but is instead the title given to any member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic police force who use their power rings to do some pretty cool stuff. They inhabit the same reality as Superman and Batman, and I’m not sure who would win in a fight. My money would be on Superman, to be honest.

    (Our Green Lantern collection is here.)


  • Comics, Prudence

    Reinforced leather

    06.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    GoComics is a website run by the company who distribute Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, and a loads more daily comic strips. You get to select the kinds of strips you like and then spend all morning reading them – although there is only so much Garfield you can take.

    I’m still laughing at this one. (And this one.)


  • Comics, Movies, Simon

    Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles

    28.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Tintin is being made into a movie series, and Steven Spielberg is going to direct the first film (to be based on The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure - which we have in the library). Peter Jackson is going to direct the second film, which is even better news. More information here, along with a picture of the actor selected to play Tintin. No release dates are mentioned, sadly.


  • Books, Comics, Simon, Subtext, Subtext Review

    Review of the Week I

    26.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    We have received many wonderful reviews this week, as part of the SubText08 programme currently running for teens. Here is the first of several reviews that we enjoyed reading. The genre for the week was ‘graphic novels’, and this review of a graphic novel was excellent!

    Nancy Drew Vol 6 : Mr Cheeters is Missing, by Stefan Petrucha

    Being a fan of the original Carolyn Keene Nancy Drew Series, I have to say I was disappointed at the mystery aspect of this graphic novel. The novels are filled with intriguing, nail-biting mysteries; while the graphic novels are a poor excuse for so-called mystery writing.

    Although the way the graphic novels are illustrated is great and I also enjoy seeing my favourite character being brought to life in a different form, I think that it would be better if the author, Stefan Petrucha, made graphic novels of the original, well-known stories, instead of trying (and failing) to write his own Nancy Drew stories.

    My reason for thinking this, may just be because I am incredibly biased towards the ‘true’ Nancy Drew books, but I probably won’t be recommending this series to any of my friends.

    I give this graphic novel, 2 stars because of the storyline – the overall product is readable and, possibly, enjoyable for some, but sadly not for me.

    ~ Melissa (13)


  • Comics, Simon, Subtext, Subtext Quiz

    SubText08 Quiz #1 – Graphic Novels

    18.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    The first of the SubText08 quizzes is available here. The theme is Graphic Novels. You have until the 29th of August to complete it, so don’t hurry – some of the questions are quite tough and may require a little research! Please make sure you’ve registered before you submit your answers.


  • Comics, New, Sci Fi, Simon

    New Comics!

    16.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    A massive stack of new graphic novels has arrived. There are (like the new books) too many to list, but here are some of the outstandings ones.

     There are about fifty other new comics. Most are new installments of established series, from J.S.A., Batman and Spiderman to The Hardy Boys, Duck Tales and Avalon High. Check them out!


  • Comics, New, Simon

    New Graphic Novels

    16.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    A stack of new comics have arrived and are available to you all. We have:

    • Bad Company vol. 1 – by Peter Milligan, and originally published in 2000AD – which usually means it’s a pretty grim futuristic tale of war, and this is certainly all those things.
    • Spider-Man and the Black Cat : The Evil That Men Do – another team-up comic, this one is written by Kevin Smith, director of films and writer of comics.
    • Heroes For Hire : Civil War – fills in some of the plot from the (somewhat) epic Civil War event that shook up the Marvel universe.
    • Avengers : The Initiative – the Civil War has been and gone, and the US Government is creating its own superhuman force called The Initiative. Here they are, having adventures and fighting the Hulk.
    • X-Men : Supernovas – This is advertised as a good starting point for anyone wanting to get into X-Men comics. It’s a very good read – I recommend it!

    There’s a lot more, inside … Read more…


  • Comics, Edna Welthorpe, Games, Internet, Science!

    A virtual world

    11.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Otago Museum’s SciCity is an interactive website that is laden with games. What’s notable is that you can create your own avatar, earn SciCity dollars that you can spend on technology, and chat with other users! It’s pretty addictive, but in the good, educational way. Otago Museum also produces the Cosmix Comic books, which are all online. We often have free copies in the library as well.


  • Comics, Edna Welthorpe, Nostalgia

    Elfquest for free!

    25.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Elfquest was a comic series that began in the late 70s, and it is still being published today. We have several graphic novels in the library. But! Like all good things, it can be found for free on the Internet. Each week several issues are added to the archives at the Elfquest website – eventually all 6000 pages (!) will be available.

    Enjoy!


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