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From: Connie Rockman <connie.rock>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:35:20 -0400
While I hasten to assure you all I am not trying to promote one vendor over another, or send any kind of "marketing message," I can't resist forwarding the message below that I just received. (I hope the visuals come through - to add that visual component Hollis is missing!) Coming in the midst of our discussion of graphic novels, it seems to point out how these are beginning to appear in the mainstream market. I'm especially interested in the message Brodart "imbedded" in their advertisement, about the high school where the graphic novels (1% of the collection) account for 50% of the circulation. This is a changing world, indeed.
Based on previous posts - and on personal experience buying for a public library collection - I have to agree that going to a specialty comics store is the best way to evaluate graphic novels if you don't have access to knowledgeable reviewers. But for those who don't have access to those stores, it's good to see that vendors are providing access to the market. I'm sure that others besides Brodart offer these services.
One topic that hasn't been touched on is "cross-over" artists. Jon J Muth is one of those who got his start in graphic novels, and actually studied in Japan for awhile. His award-winning comic books and graphic novels have been published extensively in the United States and Japan. He worked on the art for characters such as Sandman and The Silver Surfer, and created his own adaptation of Bram Stoker?s Dracula which was subtitled, ?A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares.? An example of his cross-over into the children's book market is his adaption of a comic book hero in an easy reader children?s book about the boyhood of Bruce Wayne, Batman?s Dark Secret (Cartwheel Books, 2000). He has since, of course, become a well-known and award-winning picture book artist (The Three Questions, Gershon's Monster, Come On, Rain, and his lovely oriental version of Stone Soup, to name a few), but he does continue to work in graphic novels, and in the near future will be publishing some work in graphic novel format for the children's/YA market. A graphic novel he originally published in Japan in 1996, Imaginary Magnitude, will be reissued in the States in 2005.
Cheers, Connie Rockman Editor, Ninth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators (H.W. Wilson, Dec. 2004)
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:35:20 -0400
While I hasten to assure you all I am not trying to promote one vendor over another, or send any kind of "marketing message," I can't resist forwarding the message below that I just received. (I hope the visuals come through - to add that visual component Hollis is missing!) Coming in the midst of our discussion of graphic novels, it seems to point out how these are beginning to appear in the mainstream market. I'm especially interested in the message Brodart "imbedded" in their advertisement, about the high school where the graphic novels (1% of the collection) account for 50% of the circulation. This is a changing world, indeed.
Based on previous posts - and on personal experience buying for a public library collection - I have to agree that going to a specialty comics store is the best way to evaluate graphic novels if you don't have access to knowledgeable reviewers. But for those who don't have access to those stores, it's good to see that vendors are providing access to the market. I'm sure that others besides Brodart offer these services.
One topic that hasn't been touched on is "cross-over" artists. Jon J Muth is one of those who got his start in graphic novels, and actually studied in Japan for awhile. His award-winning comic books and graphic novels have been published extensively in the United States and Japan. He worked on the art for characters such as Sandman and The Silver Surfer, and created his own adaptation of Bram Stoker?s Dracula which was subtitled, ?A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares.? An example of his cross-over into the children's book market is his adaption of a comic book hero in an easy reader children?s book about the boyhood of Bruce Wayne, Batman?s Dark Secret (Cartwheel Books, 2000). He has since, of course, become a well-known and award-winning picture book artist (The Three Questions, Gershon's Monster, Come On, Rain, and his lovely oriental version of Stone Soup, to name a few), but he does continue to work in graphic novels, and in the near future will be publishing some work in graphic novel format for the children's/YA market. A graphic novel he originally published in Japan in 1996, Imaginary Magnitude, will be reissued in the States in 2005.
Cheers, Connie Rockman Editor, Ninth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators (H.W. Wilson, Dec. 2004)
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