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Hello, all! I got a job fairly recently as a librarian in southern California, and have the opportunity to order, more or less, anything that I think would be good for the collection. While we're primarily looking for YA (Young Adult) materials, we're also buying for the Adult section as well. I already ordered the following:
Watchmen
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
V for Vendetta
Absolute Sandman
Dark Knight Returns
We're also looking for titles that would be good for book group discussions - I would like to use Watchmen, We3, and perhaps Civil War. Any suggestions you have would be extremely welcome.
Graphic novels are extremely popular here, and at pretty much all libraries. Any titles we get will likely reach a fairly large audience.
So what do you folks think a public library should have?
Watchmen
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
V for Vendetta
Absolute Sandman
Dark Knight Returns
We're also looking for titles that would be good for book group discussions - I would like to use Watchmen, We3, and perhaps Civil War. Any suggestions you have would be extremely welcome.
Graphic novels are extremely popular here, and at pretty much all libraries. Any titles we get will likely reach a fairly large audience.
So what do you folks think a public library should have?
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Any ideas on titles for discussion groups?
How about Pride of Baghdad?
There's also a great hardcover out, The Best Comics of 2006. It's a great bunch of indy stuff, partially selected by Harvey Pekar. I'd assume the next volume is coming out sometime soon as well, I plan to pick that up.
Also, Krazy Kat collections!
Nice. I'd add Batman: Year One. My nearest library has all the Sandman softcover trades, various Ultimates (But I think all of the Ultimate X-Men trades), the first Runaways and a couple of those (V and Watchmen are, IIRC, on a waiting list), but they also have some odd stuff like Sleeper v.3 (that's it. For the entire system. Bastards.) and Esssentials of a couple of characters (Hulk for sure, Ghost Rider) and also a bunch of DC stuff that I don't really pay attention to. But they also stock loose issues (yay for having all of the Planet Hulk I've read, 90% of it).
My point being: Of course you should get the classics, but don't be a snob. Get some random stuff, too. Get Civil War. Get Essentials. Get Criminal (ooooh... get Criminal: Coward). Get the Immortal Iron Fist softcover. Go a little nuts.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is also a very good idea.
Also, American Virgin.
DC Elseworlds are great for discussion. Kingdom Come, Red Son, anything that turns the status quo on its head. Civil War, Illuminati, Planet Hulk, Identity Crisis, CoIE, and Infinite Crisis are also good ones.
I'd also recommend Rising Stars, Supreme Power, and even Wanted just to round out your superhero stories.
And Johnny the Homicidal Maniac!
For less than $20 bucks, you get 500+ pages of comics. Black and white and yes, but still good stuff.
There's also the Archive Edition books, which are more expensive at around $50 a book, and with less pages, but are in full color.
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Don't get Civil War, Crisis whatever, any of that stuff. Whatever one's opinion on it, it'll be completely meaningless to a general audience and alienating to kids.
Y, Preacher, 100 Bullets and The Invisibles would be big hits among the teen and college set.
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Have you...have you read much stuff from the library?
EDIT: Ulysses, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Anais Nin, Anne Rice, The Canterbury fucking Tales, jesus cockshitting christ you have got to be kidding.
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Look into local bindery services to help protect your soft cover graphic novels. A section of softcovers together on the shelf will slide all over the place, especially if you get a bunch of the Essentials and Showcase reprints (as you should). Library binding (based on the binder we use here in the Northeast) should be about 10-12 bucks a novel and would save you the cost of replacement. You could even get multiple slim graphic novels and have them bound together.
Also, Astro City.
Actually, I really don't have a problem with getting Preacher - I think it's a good idea, and will put it on the list. Libraries are very much in favor of intellectual freedom, and while I might have to put it in the Adult section rather than Young Adult, I see no problem with carrying it.
Incidentally, I forgot about Goon - I got the first couple of trades to see if they would be popular. I hope so, as it's one of my favorite titles.
Great idea on the Essentials by the way, jacobkosh. Also, Bad Karma - which Showcase editions would you suggest?
Yeah, our Absolute Sandman is wearing out quickly. Damn publishers these days need to bind their books better. The same thing happened with our copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - they'd get checked out once, and have chunks of pages falling out.
Batman: Long Halloween & Dark Victory.
Justice.
For the young adult/all ages section, I would suggest Scott Pilgrim. Sharknife too.
Morrison's Doom Patrol, Invisibles, Animal Man, and the Filth.
Magnus Robot Fighter is pretty awesome, but feels a bit dated and weird.
You really can't go wrong with Hellboy and BPRD. Just make sure to get the books in order, especially the BPRD stuff, as continuity is kind of important. There are also some Hellboy-universe prose novels that I enjoyed reading a couple of years ago. I can't remember titles... Maybe Bones of Giants?
Well, the Bible has some redeeming value, first of all.
They are there to provide stuff to read and let you decide to read it or not.
Bone.
Get Bone.
Seconded. You wouldn't believe how popular "Bone" is with people. I've tried getting volumes from my local library only to find waitlists 40 people long.
For comparison, I've never seen any other graphic novel with a waitlist of more than 6 people.
Also, pick up all three "Animal Man" volumes. The world could use more Buddy Baker.
Also, Creature Tech and Daisy Kutter, who are both done by contributors to Flight, are fantastic all-ages reads.
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There's an Escapist book made up of short stories by different writers and authors, meant to serve as highlights from his "decades" as a character. Interestingly enough, I got it from my Public Library and it turned out to be great.
As for Brian K. Vaughan's Escapist run, I have no idea. I haven't seen it collected anywhere, but of course that doesn't mean much.