There are some brilliant new graphic novels winging their way to your library:
Rex Libris by James Turner:
Welcome to the Middleton Public Library, where the patrons are not always human, the telluric energy of the local ley point brings fictional characters to life, and the librarians are always heavily armed. Long-lived Head Librarian Rex Libris, whose first library job was at Alexandria, is a member of the Ordo Bibliotheca, which throughout history has protected human knowledge from menaces both natural and supernatural. His colleagues include the ancient witch Circe, the megalomaniacal talking bird Simonides, and newcomer Hypatia, already bored with circ desk work and yearning for action.
(from Library Journal)
Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds:
Tamara Drewe has transformed herself by plastic surgery. People are drawn to her. In the remote village where her late mother lived, Tamara arrives to clear up the house. To the village teenagers, she is ‘plastic-fantastic’, a role model. When her glances lead to tragedy, she is seen as a man-eater, a heartless marriage wrecker, a slut.
Blue Pills: A positive love story by Frederick Peeters: Library Journal reviewed it recently:
At a youthfully dissipated summer house party, Fred is smitten by Cati … But Cati brings with her two surprises: a young son and their mutual HIV-positive status—the blue pills keep them alive and relatively healthy. Peeters is an award-winning artist living in Switzerland, and his muscular, black-and-white art suits his story perfectly.
16 February 2008 at 1:33 pm
Another library themed graphic novel is on its way! Bookhunter by Jason Shiga – Bookslut picked it as a goodie and reviewed it thus:
“Books and libraries have never gotten the thriller treatment quite like this — big-budget Hollywood movie tropes wedded to book theft. From a prior column: “A perfect prologue, in which a book thief is tracked down by the Library Police and shot before he can put the hostage books to the torch, lets readers know they’re not in Realityville anymore… It’s quite an achievement by Shiga to make the examination of a card catalogue pulse-pounding. Shiga invests the details of book creation, collecting, and preservation with an urgency and fascination that defies description.” Amazingly entertaining and hardboiled.”