Good advice

For graduates, graduates-to-be, and those of us who graduated long ago...






Thanks to Zen Pencils for the beautiful gesture.  Take a look at the archives for more!

Dope links for your edification

• Sherman Alexie on book bannings and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian.  He is working on a SEQUEL -- le swoon!

• Sarah Dessen tells it like it is.

• I have fallen in love with this girl.  Her comics are incredible and smart!

• Think you're ready for college?  USA Today makes you wonder...

• WHAT?  They are making a live action series of Library Wars?  When do we get it here?  Wheeeeeennnnnnn?

(That's 100% what my job is like, btw.)

Today's reading recommendations

Are from the Unshelved Book Club!  Unshelved, as I know you are well aware, is an incredibly accurate comic strip about librarians.

So when these dudes recommend books they for sure know of what they speak.

Today's reading recommendation: WEBCOMICS!

As many of you know, there is a whole funtastic world of comics on the Internet.  With the Eisner Awards just around the corner, let's take a squint at some of 'em, including this year's Eisner nominees for Best Digital Comic.

Bad Machinery by John Allison
Axe Cop by Malachai Nicolle & Ethan Nicolle
Girl Genius by Kaja and Phil Foglio
Digger by Ursula Vernon
Spacetrawler by Christopher Baldwin
Bite Me! by Dylan Meconis

By now you manga fans are looking at me all sniffly-eyed and asking "Whytofore all these Western comix?"  There there...

IKKI Online Manga Magazine (brought to you by VIZ Media)


Aaaaaaand (drumroll pleez) this year's EISNER NOMINEES FOR BEST DIGITAL COMIC (yaaaaah!):
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff
Outfoxed by Dylan Meconis
Sarah and the Seed by Ryan Andrews
Battlepug by Mike Norton
Bahrain by Josh Neufeld


There you have it -- start reading!