YACB Bulletins

ITEM! Batman Legos! (via Tegan)

ITEM! The New York Times has news about The 99, a comic about a team of Muslim super-heroes. It looks interesting, but as with all things it'll come down to the execution. (via Brian at The Great Curve and Newsarama)

ITEM! Jon J. Muth has received a Caldecott Honors commendation for his book Zen Shorts, an award that is well-deserved. Considering how many libraries will now end up purchasing the book, Muth may never need to work in comics again. (via Christopher)

ITEM! Chris J. Miller recently updated his The Unauthorized Chronology of the DC Universe; those of you trying to make heads-or-tails of the timeline for Infinite Crisis and its various pre-series, tie-ins, etc. will want to check out Chris's section on the most recent events.

New Library Comics: Week of January 16, 2006

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:


Dart, Rebecca. RabbitHead /Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, 2004.

Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea /Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2005.

Doucet, Julie, 1965- The Madame Paul affair /Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2000.

Johnson, R. Kikuo. Night fisher /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2005.

Kalesniko, Mark. Why did Pete Duel kill himself? /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 1997.

Mizuno, Junko, 1973- Pure trance /San Francisco, Calif. : Last Gasp, 2005.

O, Se-yong, 1955- Buja's diary /New York : NBM ComicsLit, 2005, c2001.

Porcellino, John. Perfect example /Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2005.

Roadstrips : a graphic journey across America /San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2005.

Sadowski, Greg. B. Krigstein /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2002-

Satrapi, Marjane, 1969- Embroideries /New York : Pantheon Books, 2005.

Yoe, Craig. Modern arf /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2005.