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In today's episode Iurgi and Mia discuss:
their recent reads (Maus, Lumberjanes, Fence Vol 6: Redemption, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin)an update on Australian comicsthe challenges of long manga seriescomics sales data from the U.S. that is mind blowing - for example, 49% of comics sales in the U.S. book market went to mangaand moreThey also discuss their favourite picks from this month's new titles:
Together Forever by Kristen Gudsnuk (Scholastic Inc) [9781338630824]Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne, Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly) [9781770466968]A Fox in My Brain by Lou Lubie (Fairsquare Comics) [9781960171108]Dwellings by Jay Stephens (Oni Press) [9781637152911]For a full list of new release titles and all the news and resources please visit our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/
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This month Rebecca sits down to chat with Paul McLaughlin, the creator and writer of Lil Viking Space Rangers. Chapter 2 is out now with art by Trudi Monteath and Sarah Rackemann. Chapter 1 and 3 have art from Liana Wright.
The discussion covers this delightful and humorous comics for kids, the process of making comics, Paul's experiences with libraries and doing workshops at libraries and, of course, he has three comics he recommends too.
For more on Lil Viking Space Rangers visit: https://www.lilvikingspacerangers.com/
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In this roundup episode Jade and Rebecca sit discuss their recent reads, they pick their favourite newly released graphic novels and the latest news and resources, including: collection management and weeding of superhero comics, U.S. publishers ramping up releases of middle grade manga and lots of adaptations of books into graphic novels.
New titles picks:
The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught
The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha
No Remorse: The Illustrated True Stories of Lemmy Kilmister and Motörhead by various authors
Adversary by Blue Delliquanti
For a full list of new release titles and all the news and resources please visit our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/
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In our latest creator chat, Marissa sits downs with Queenie Chan, a Sydney based comics creator working in manga style. She has published three volumes of The Fabled Kingdom, which is a mix of prose and manga, the Women Who Were Kings series of manga and now she's republishing an expanded and updated three volume edition of The Dreaming, a manga located in an Australian boarding school in the bush.
We discuss her influences, what it's like working in the manga style in Australia, the original publication of The Dreaming with Tokyo Pop and the reasons for the new expanded edition.
For more info on Queenie Chan and her comics check out her website: https://queeniechan.com/
For more from ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics check out our new website: https://queeniechan.com/
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In this month's roundup Gabby and Marissa discuss their recent reads. They also discuss Webtoons, Lore Olympus and the new Inklore imprint, and some other news like the recent article from The Guardian discussing comics, graphic novels and manga in France.
They also discuss their favourite picks out of the new graphic novels published recently and coming up soon.
You can find the whole February Roundup blog post with more news, resources and the full list of new titles in our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/
Please follow, subscribe, rate our podcast and read graphic!
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In this creator chat we talk to Tim McEwen, co-creator of Greener Pastures. He's been making comics since the 80s and Greener Pastures is making a comeback that will, finally, include trade paperbacks and a graphic novel.
Tim and Iurgi discuss Australian comics, the Comic Arts Awards of Australia (formerly Ledger Awards) and, of course, the ambitious plans to reprint Greener Pastures in trade paperbacks and finish the story they started back in the early 90s.
For more info on Greener Pastures visit: https://www.greenerpasturescomic.com
To back the Greener Pastures Kickstarter currently live visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timmcewen/greenerpastures8
For more from ALIA Graphic visit: https://graphic.alia.org.au
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In this creator chat we talk to Chris Gooch who’s recently published his third graphic novel with Top Shelf: In Utero. A young adult monster story with some horror thrown in for good measure.
We talk about Chris' comics making process, which he often shares on social media too. His advice for young creators starting to make comics. The origins of In Utero and the influences in In Utero, from Otomo's Domu to the first couple of episodes of Digimon. We also discuss his love of genre stories, his favourite monster films and he recommends some graphic novels to read.
To stay up to date with Chris Gooch check out his website: https://www.chrisgooch.com.au
To stay up to date with ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics check out our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au
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In this month's roundup James and Iurgi comment on their recent reads and several best graphic novels of 2023 lists published by different sources such as No Flying No Tights, Popverse and The Guardian. They comment on the recent announcement of Angourleme's Grand Prix award winner. They also discuss one of the big debates last year: are comics in crisis? While some talk doom and gloom, sales of comics are very strong with comics appearing at the top of the charts regularly and in different countries.
James and Iurgi also discuss their favourite picks out of the new graphic novels published in December and January. Iurgi's favourite pick is In Utero by Chris Gooch, published by Top Shelf. James' favourite pick is Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei, Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini, published by Tundra Books / Random House.
Finally, they announce the new website for the ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics group and changes to the ALIA Graphic Book Club.
You can find the whole January Roundup blog post with more news, resources and the full list of new titles from December and January in our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/
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In our final podcast for 2023, Iurgi, Marissa and Rebecca get together to discuss their favourite reads this year. It's a mix of ongoing series, new series and old publications that we have revisited. Our favourite reads this year are:
Iurgi
Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth
Nightwing by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
Spy x Family Tatsuya Endo (Viz Media)
Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
Marissa
The Nameless City trilogy by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
Nothing Special by by Katie Cook (Webtoons, coming to print 2024, Random House) The God of Arepo by Reimena Yee (webcomic and ebook: https://reimenayee.com/the-god-of-arepo/)
The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono (Viz Media)
Rebecca
Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama (Kodansha)
Ghost Book by Remy Lai (Allen & Unwin)
Flavor Girls by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky (Archaia)
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, Hyung-Ju Ko (Iron Circus)
For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/
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This is a recording of the webinar held November 16 2023.
We get many questions emailed to us by librarians and library staff across the country about the different factions of the graphic novel and comic world. So we thought that this year we would spend the time hearing from you and providing answers to those questions that you may have been wanting to ask for a while.
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In this episode Iurgi and Gabby discuss:
the Harvey Awards announced at the New York Comic Conthe little we know about Raina Telgemeier's upcoming graphic novela really interesting survey carried out by the School Library Journal in the U.S. with really interesting datathe Library Journal's upcoming Library Con Live and our very own upcoming webinar as well as their recent reads and favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels.For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/
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Sarah Firth is a cartoonist, artist, writer, speaker, and graphic recorder who has been published extensively in Australia and overseas. Her work has appeared in the Eisner Award winning anthology, Drawing Power, and the Ledger Award winning anthology, Neither Here Nor Hair. She is also a founding member of Graphic Recorders Australia, a not-for-profit professional association that supports the Graphic Recording community in Australia.
Her debut graphic novel “Eventually Everything Connects” is available now.
James Baker sits down with Sarah Firth and they talk:
how she first got interested in comicsher relationship with librarieswhat aphantasia is and how she works around itmaking a graphic novel for adults and her desire to have it published by a traditional publisherreceiving a grant for the book and are funding bodies becoming more receptive to comics related projectsher involvement in different anthologies and her thoughts on receiving recognition and awardswhat graphic recording is and her work doing graphic recordingsof course, her journey to creating and publishing Eventually Everything Connectsthe October 18 book launch in Melbourne andSarah’s reading recommendations: Top recommendations: Still Alive by Safdar Ahmed, Our Members Be Unlimited by Sam Wallman, The Grot by Pat Grant, Stone Fruit by Lee Lai. Boundless by Jillian Tamaki, Unflattening by Nick Sousanis and Glenn Gadges: The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga.For more on Sarah Firth check out her website: http://www.sarahthefirth.com
To find out more about Graphic Recorders Australia check out their website: https://www.graphicrecorders.org.au
For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/
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In this month's creator chat we catch up with Sydney based writer Mat Groom, one of the creators of Inferno Girl Red. Volume 1 was an incredibly successful Kickstarter and then it was published by Image Comics, earlier this year.
The team is now on campaign mode for volume 2 on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2129645662/inferno-girl-red-books-one-and-two-by-mat-groom-erica-durso
We talk about tonkusatsu TV series, comics, manga, and Inferno Girl Red.
For more on Mat Groom visit his website: https://www.matgroom.com
For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/
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In this episode Marissa and Iurgi cover a lot of ground. They discuss the comic they've been reading recently, the Comic Arts Awards of Australia and their favourite picks of the new titles published recently, including four new Australian graphic novels we're really excited about.
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Papercuts Comics Festival is a biennial comics festival held biennially in Adelaide, it is being run for the third time this September but the festival directors, Georgina Chadderton and Owen Heitmann, still found time to sit down with James for a Creator Chat to explain why they run the festival and what we can expect from this year's program.
For more information about Papercuts Comics Festival go to https://www.papercutscomicsfestival.com/
The website for Georgina's work is http://www.georgerexcomics.com/
The website for Owen's work is https://amplifiedpress.com/
If you want to watch the video of this recording you can watch it on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@aliagraphic
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In this creator chat we catch up with two of the most amazing creators for young readers. Both Jason Pamment and Remy Lai made quite a splash when they published their first graphic novels, Treasure in the Lake and Pawcasso.
They were both in our Notable Australian Graphic Novels list in 2021 and they garnered a lot of recognition both in Australia and internationally.
As they both published a new graphic novels so close together we thought it was an excellent opportunity to bring them together.
Jason Pamment, Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures, published June 27.
Remy Lai, Ghost Book, published August 1.
Both published through Allen & Unwin in Australia.
For more on Jason's work visit: https://www.jasonpamment.com
For more on Remy's work visit: https://remylai.com
If you want to watch the video of this recording you can watch it on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@aliagraphic
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In this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, the best middle grade graphic novels of the year so far (according to Booklist), the Eisner Awards and our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels.
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In this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, reading recommendations for Pride Month(including Australian titles) and our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels.
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In this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, the latest news (including the Eisners controversies around LGBTQIA+ graphic novels, and a practical guide to comic book collection development) and, of course, our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels.
We also discuss King Con, the new library comic con at Kingston Libraries in Victoria with Iurgi, who was one of the organisers.
And, finally, we discuss a few webinars, some that have already taken place and are freely available, some that are upcoming. All the details for all the news, webinars, etc are on our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/
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In our first creator chat of the year we're honoured to have James Foley and Brenton McKenna in conversation. James recently published Secret Agent Mole Book 1:Goldfishfinger(Scholastic) and Brenton McKenna recently published Hairy Holes (Magabala Books).
We sat down with them after they read each other's books and they just started talking. We hope you enjoy this amazing conversation between two amazing comic book creators who clearly know and admire each other.
To find out more about James Foley visit his website: https://jamesfoley.com.au
To find out more about Brenton McKenna visit his website: https://www.brentonmckenna.com
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Please note, this is the audio only version of this creator chat, if you want to watch the video it's available on our ALIA Graphic YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@aliagraphic
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