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Graphic Novels for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and BookShelf offers a selection of graphic novels which tackle the disease, including Jennifer Hayden's The Story of My Tits from IDW/Top Shelf, as well as other cancer-related titles.
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Ellis Delivers Mind-Bending Injection For Image
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| Warren Ellis begins a series of tales set in a strange new world – ours – in Injection Vol. 1 from Image Comics. Here, he and artist
Declan Shalvey discuss this new series of the future gone horribly wrong, and the people who made it that way.
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Critically Acclaimed Oyster War Comes to Print
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| Oni Press presents Eisner-nominated cartoonist Ben Towle's critically acclaimed webcomic Oyster War, a jaunty tale of historical
fiction set in turn of the century New England, in a premiere graphic novel. See a preview here.
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Jones and Rich's Lady Is a Real Killer For Dark Horse
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| Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother-but she's also a ruthless, efficient killer for hire in Dark Horse Comics's
Lady Killer from Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich. Here, Jones offers insight on this noir-ish graphic novel.
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Brutal Education Begins in Image's No Mercy
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Writer Alex De Campi and artist Carla Speed McNeil begin a new series that thrusts a group of stranded, advantaged teenagers into a harrowing odyssey in No Mercy Vol. 1 from Image Comics. See a preview here.
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Dynamite Goes Down Town In New Dresden Files
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| Harry Dresden's new apprentice is trouble enough, even before she starts working with the mob in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Down Town, an all-new volume in the hit series from Dynamite Entertainment. See a preview here.
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New Graphic Novels on Net Galley
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| BookShelf offers a list of the newest titles now available for viewing on Net Galley, including IDW's TMNT: Casey & April, Image Comics's Bitch Planet Vol. 1, Dynamite Entertainment's Django/Zorro, and Locust Moon's Shaman. |
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Useful Links
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Libraries & Makerspaces: Cosplayers Welcome!
Justin Switzer, Young Adult Librarian at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library, shows how libraries can bring together maker and comics communities with cosplay-inspired programming.
The Diamond Graphic Novel Common Core List
The Diamond Graphic Novel Common Core List offers over 100 graphic novels that will fit into a Common Core curriculum, along with resources including Library Classifications, Subject Headings, and Core Standards which apply to each book.
Diamond BookShelf Core Lists
Bookshelf presents a list of essential titles broken down by age group. These lists are compiled taking into account literary quality, entertainment value and age group suitability.
Lesson Plans
Here at BookShelf, we plan to help out teachers by providing lesson plans for selected titles, crafted by qualified educators. To get started, we have provided lesson plans for Elementary, Middle and High School using several popular graphic novels.
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