by LibraryPass | Jun 24, 2021 | Announcements, Comics Plus, Publisher Spotlight
LibraryPass, Inc. has announced a distribution agreement with Kodansha USA Publishing, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest publishing company, to make its digital catalog of manga available to libraries and schools through Comics Plus. With Comics Plus, readers can borrow...
by Guy Gonzalez | Jun 2, 2021 | Events, Resources
“If we’re going to connect with our students, we need to read what they’re reading. If a student recommends a book to me, I read it.” —Michael Gianfrancesco On Thursday, May 27, 2021, our panel of experienced educators and librarians—Mike...
by LibraryPass | May 17, 2021 | Comic Spotlight, Comics Plus, Resources
“Manga had a spectacular year in 2020 despite the global COVID pandemic. Readers have been diving into manga as a big form of COVID era entertainment, and there’s growth across the board, even in the channels most affected by COVID shutdowns. Now more than ever,...
by LibraryPass | May 11, 2021 | Comics Plus, Events
WATCH ON-DEMAND Manga is a global phenomenon with sales and readership that dwarfs superhero comics and rivals non-comics bestsellers. In schools and libraries across North America, manga has been flying off physical and virtual shelves for years—driving circulation,...
by John Shableski | Nov 9, 2020 | Comic Spotlight, Comics Plus
Manga has a face and it belongs to Osamu Tezuka. The global popularity of any entertainment medium can usually be traced to either an artist, a group of artists, or a defining movement. In the case of the Japanese comics medium most commonly known as manga, that...