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Oni Press has announced its upcoming slate of guests, signings, and panels for 2024's AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE (ALA) Taking place Friday, June 28th through Monday, July 1st, visit creators Terry Blas (Eat Your Heart Out), Lydia Anslow (Eat Your Heart Out), Junepurrr (Subzero), Jeremy Lambert (The Night Mother), and Alexa Sharpe (The Night Mother), at Booth #724 for daily signings[...]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has announced their plans for the upcoming ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition taking place in Washington DC later this month In addition to offering advance reader copies of upcoming graphic novels at BOOM! booth #1616, the publisher will be bringing along special guests including R.L Stine, Carly Usdin, Delialh S Dawson,[...]

We're just saying, maybe the message is more on target than you might at first think. Anyway, here's a press release explaining the new initiative: Ahead of the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Conference next week, DC revealed plans today for a new campaign – "Be a Hero, Read a Book" –that will promote graphic novels across[...]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has revealed the lineup of exclusive merchandise they're bringing to ALA Midwinter 2019 later this month, January 25th-29th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle BOOM! will be settling in for a midwinter's tabling at booth #626, and they're bringing advance looks at upcoming graphic novels such as Buffy the[...]

Update Jan 14th: Added information about Toyotome's bail amount and his arrest sheet. What started as a smooth weekend for Anime Los Angeles (ALA) at the Ontario Convention Center turned dangerous as an individual set fire to a car in the parking lot of the adjacent Azure Hotel & Suites The fire spread and destroyed several cars,[...]

Happening right now at the Los Angeles Convention Center- Anime Los Angeles, aka ALA. Here is an ongoing gallery (that we'll be updating as our guest photographer updates) from Ellen Towne, who was kind enough to get us run her expanding gallery of cosplay from the event: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img[...]

The ALA's 2016 list of the Top Ten most challenged books in American Libraries and school has revealed that a vast majority of those challenged and banned are books containing LGBTQ characters or themes, particularly the transgender aspect of the community There are also a significant number of graphic novels, both original and collected editions,[...]