YACB Bulletins

ITEM! The horrible truth about gifted and talented programs. (via Sara)

ITEM! The Straight Dope on the Dewey Decimal System.

ITEM! James Jean draws more than just comic covers--he's done illustrations for everything from Target to Men's Health.

ITEM! We're rapidly approaching the 100,000th visitor milestone here on YACB--it should happen sometime in early-to-mid February. I plan on having some sort of major give-away contest in honor of reacing the milestone. Stay tuned...

ITEM! Laurenn McCubbin is drawing a Dakota North series for Marvel. Sign me up!

Ted Rall @ Michigan - Podcast

Ted Rall--editorial cartoonist, graphic novelist and raconteur--was in Ann Arbor last Thursday as part of the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.

Alas, I wasn't able to attend due to work commitments, but I can listen to the free podcast that the library's arts videography program has made available. You can too, via iTunes or the U-M School of Art + Design Website. Audio is available now, and video should be available later in the week.

New Library Comics: Week of January 23, 2006

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


Donnelly, Liza. Funny ladies : the New Yorker's greatest women cartoonists and their cartoons /Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.

Fingerman, Bob, 1964- You deserved it /Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Comics, 2005.

McKenzie, Alan. How to draw & sell comics /Cincinnati, Ohio : Impact, c2005.

Nakazawa, Keiji. Barefoot Gen : a cartoon story of Hiroshima /San Francisco, Calif. : Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2004- v. 3-4

Ottaviani, Jim. Bone sharps, cowboys, and thunder lizards : a tale of Edwin Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the gilded age of paleontology /Ann Arbor, Mich. : G.T. Labs, c2005.

Panter, Gary. Jimbo in purgatory : being a mis-recounting of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy in pictures and un-numbered footnotes /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2004.

Senses : sequential art anthology. /Atlanta : Savannah College of Art and Design, 2005.

SPX 2005 /[New York] : Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, 2005.