On Thursday, June 9, 2022, Moni Barrette, Betsy Gomez, and Jack Phoenix presented a brief history of comics challenges, and offered a range of proven strategies for reviewing and protecting your collections, your staff, and your community.
Our Summer Reading Guide features great recommendations that will spark imaginations and foster insightful conversations throughout the summer and beyond.
For avid sci-fi enthusiasts or those looking to explore new frontiers, our Galaxies Near and Far, Far Away collection offers a wide range of well-known franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, and The Incal, alongside newer stories waiting to be discovered. The five titles highlighted this month ask readers to untether themselves from reality and delve into a galaxy of fantastical adventures.
Many Western cultures celebrate love every February—even though the true origins of Valentine’s Day are murky—but romance is one of the most popular genres in every medium, and its fans know that Happily Ever Afters can be celebrated all year. Our “Love is in the Air” collection will satisfy your most avid readers looking for romantic stories, while offering great recommendations for new readers—whether they’re looking for True Romance or variations on the classic love story. Try not to swoon over these age-appropriate titles for the lovers and dreamers in all of us!
Manga is an incredibly diverse medium and there are a lot of opportunities to get lost in the weeds as you begin, or refine, your collection development strategy to incorporate it. Worse, you might deprive your readers of serendipitous discovery by only focusing on the most popular titles they already know about.
We periodically review and occasionally update age ratings on specific titles and series to ensure they align with our age-appropriate guidelines, and those guidelines are regularly reviewed to ensure they align with our dual mission to to provide unlimited access to a broad range of content while enabling our customers to confidently offer Comics Plus to their students and patrons.
We curate high-interest, immersive digital content that helps schools and libraries expand and diversify their collections—without breaking their materials budgets.
Give your readers unlimited, simultaneous access to a diverse collection of digital comics, manga, and picture books from dozens of library-friendly publishers.
