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Online DC comics

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On Tuesday, 6 October, 2009

In anime & manga, comics and graphic novels

What is Zuda Comics? That’s a great question. The short answer is that it’s an all-new line of Web Comics. The longer answer is that Zuda Comics are whatever you make of them.

Zuda Comics is the webcomics division of DC. You can design your own comic for entry into their monthly competition, vote for your favourite entry, or simply enjoy the ones already online.

While we’re on the subject, you can find the DC comics website here, and don’t forget to check out our collection of them in your library branch.

名探偵 コナン

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On Saturday, 6 June, 2009

In anime & manga, comics and graphic novels, new stuff (ooh, shiny!)

We’ve a new manga series in the YA collection. It is titled Case Closed, by Gosho Aoyama. Jimmy Kudo is a hyper-skilled high school detective who is transformed into  first-grader by a’ strange chemical’. He adopts a new name – Conan Edogawa – and continues to solve crime while hunting for whoever’s responsible for his transformation.

We have 29 volumes, so the hunt may take awhile. The animated series is big in Japan and Germany, according to Wikipedia, but I don’t think we’re getting it.

(All our other manga series are listed on this page.)

Dracula vs. Santa

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On Wednesday, 4 March, 2009

In comics and graphic novels, internet culture

Zuda Comics collects user-submitted comics. The comics then compete with one another – they’re rated by users – and the winner is published. There’s some great work there, and the latest, Dracula vs. Santa, is hysterical. My aching sides!

Do you want to upsize? *fwip*

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On Monday, 23 February, 2009

In comics and graphic novels

You may have heard that there’s a global recession on. What can that mean? It’s quite complex, but there are simpler ways of viewing it. However, what’s perhaps more immediately relevant is how it’s affecting comics; apparently Peter Parker lost his job and is now working at McDonalds.

Top 10: 2008, the year of the graphic novel

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On Monday, 2 February, 2009

In comics and graphic novels

The American Library Association, together with its rather unattractive website*, has produced a list of 10 great graphic novels/ series that were published in 2008. We even have some, which I’ll list below.

book coverLife Sucks, by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria and Warren Pleece

Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan, by Aimee Major Steinberger 

book coverSkim, by Mariko Tamaki; drawings by Jillian Tamaki

The Umbrella Academy. Volume 1, Apocalypse suite, by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba 

(I feel almost exactly like one of those Academy Award presenters typing that, but without the frock and the fame and the botox.)

* sorry sorry, but it’s true!

Become a Garfield Illustrator

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On Friday, 23 January, 2009

In comics and graphic novels, internet culture

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).

Green Lantern, silver screen

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On Wednesday, 1 October, 2008

In comics and graphic novels, movies (they're like books that move!), science fiction

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.)

Reinforced leather

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On Saturday, 6 September, 2008

In comics and graphic novels

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.)

Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles

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On Thursday, 28 August, 2008

In comics and graphic novels, movies (they're like books that move!)

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.

SubText08 Quiz #1 – Graphic Novels

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On Friday, 18 July, 2008

In comics and graphic novels

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.

New Comics!

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On Friday, 16 May, 2008

In comics and graphic novels, new stuff (ooh, shiny!), science fiction

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!

New Graphic Novels

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On Wednesday, 16 April, 2008

In comics and graphic novels, new stuff (ooh, shiny!)

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 …

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A virtual world

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On Friday, 11 April, 2008

In comics and graphic novels, internet culture, stuff to do

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.

Elfquest for free!

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On Tuesday, 25 March, 2008

In comics and graphic novels

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!

Comics – Kiwi style!

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On Friday, 1 February, 2008

In comics and graphic novels

Kiwi comics is your portal to the New Zealand comic scene.   This wiki-style site allows you to keep in contact with creators and comic dealers around the country, find out about comic cons and other events, plus much, much more! 

Naruto

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On Wednesday, 18 July, 2007

In anime & manga, comics and graphic novels

Masashi Kishimoto’s very popular series of manga, Naruto, very rarely makes it to our shelves. Many people may not be aware it’s even held in the library! But it is! We currently hold up to volume 15 (a great stack of new copies came throught a few weeks ago), and while you may need to reserve it – which you can do online – it’s well worth the wait. Especially if you’re a fan of the animated series.

For a full list of manga held in the YA collection click here.

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