Posted by Janice Biebrich
Last Updated October 9/06
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Choosing Comics & Graphic Novels |
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Reviews |
| Online Reviews |
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Art
Bomb - Browse books by genre for reviews |
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Beeks
Books - Skim the list (If it has a particular order, it escapes me.) |
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Bob's
Comic Reviews - Reviews alphabetized by author under headings |
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Book
Wholesalers, Inc. (BWI) TITLETALES - It's free to register (You must register to search the site.) - Advanced search allows many options - Useful information in the display includes recommended grade levels, reviews and cataloguing information |
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Comic
Books for Young Adults by Michael R. Lavin - Recommended (but not reviewed) titles listed first by age and interest, then by genre |
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The
Comics Get Serious: Graphic Novels and Other Stuff by D. Aviva
Rothschild, author of
Graphic
Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book-Length Comics |
| The Comics Journal |
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Comic
Readers - Browse the archives or search |
| Comic World News |
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Comics
Worth Reading - Recommendations, Manga News, Independent Comics Reviews |
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Darkhorse - Browse by Titles, Creators or Subjects for a short synopsis (not review) with age level |
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Diamond
Bookshelf - Reviews written by Kat Kan who also writes a column Graphically Speaking in Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) |
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Fanboy
Planet - Comics Preview Spotlight |
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Follet's
TITLEWAVE - It's free to register (You must register to search the site.) - Click on collection development to set the parameters of your search - The results list includes reading and interest level, excerpts from review journals (i.e.: Booklist) |
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Fourth
Rail - Skim the archives for titles |
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Graphic
Novel Review - First Issue Sept. 2004 |
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Grovel.org.uk
The source for Graphic Novels - Browse by titles, writers or artists |
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Guardians
of the North - A good site for bringing attention to Canadian Comics |
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Graphic
Novels Tired of Superman? How About Trying Something New? by April
Spisak & Ria Newhouse - Short annotations of graphic novels listed by fiction and non-fiction |
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Graphic
Novel Roundup by Steve Weiner, author of
101
Best Graphic Novels |
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icomics - Best of lists or search by title |
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Lambiek
Comiclopedia - This site is made up of author author biographies with mentions of their work |
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The
Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga by
Gilles Poitras, author of
Anime
Essentials - There are recommended lists of Anime (listed alphabetically by title) and Manga (listed by both author and title) |
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Manga
Maniacs - Reviews listed alphabetically by series - Series are colour coded for appropriateness |
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Need
Coffee - Reviews listed alphabetically by title |
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MARSimport - Search by title or browse by title, series, genre, publisher, creator, price or language for info and descriptions (no reviews) |
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Ninth
Art - Search full length reviews with cover art and inside pages |
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No
Flying No Tights by Robin Brenner and cohorts - Reviews of GN for Teens by genre or search by creator/author, title or publisher - Sister sites - Sidekicks for kids and The Lair for Young Adults/Adults |
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Rambles - Reviews are listed alphabetically by title within publisher groupings |
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Rational Magic : The
Comics Get Serious Reviews by D. Aviva Rothschild, the author of Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book-Length Comics You can check out the reviews out alphabetically or by subject, or in categories such as kid-friendly, best and worst. Note: this site has not been updated since June, 2002. |
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reads4teens - Short reviews by teens |
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SBC
Silver Bullet Comic Books - Line of Fire reviews of comics |
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Sequential
Tart: The Report Card - Reviews in each issue may be sorted in several ways |
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Spiderfan - Search |
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Suspended
Animation - Skim the tiles in each year's list |
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Toonopedia:
A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge - From The Yellow Kid to the present |
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top-book-reviews - Search Graphic Novels and browse by genre |
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Top
Shelf Productions - Short annotation listed alphabetically in a drop down menu |
| Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) is the best print resource for graphic novel reviews for teens. This journal is published bimonthly, and has a graphic novels review column by Kat Kan |
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What
Teens Want - Thirty Graphic Novels You Can't Live Without
recommended by Michele Gorman, author of: Getting Graphic! Using
Graphic Novels to Promote Literacy with Preteens and Teens Michele's list has been reprinted with title covers in Teens Know on the Harris County Public Library Site |
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YALSA
(Young Adult Library Services Association) Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Graphic Novels: Superheroes and Beyond recommended list only/no reviews |
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Winnipeg
Public Library Staff Picks - Short annotations of a handful of graphic novels |
| Print Reviews |
| How NOT to Review Comics by Jessa Crispin |
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Posted by Janice Biebrich |
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Last Updated October 9/06 |