Even better is to get your teens talking about it, and getting their input on which series/titles to carry. Then you can go to your Director/Board and give concrete evidence that there is interest in the genre.
But the references of manga/anime can't hurt either!
Anime and manga are different and should be recognized as so, but I would like to ask my comic book lovin' colleagues to stop correcting someone every 5 seconds when they pronounce manga as "MAINGA" and not the proper "MONGA." Yes, I am impressed by your knowledge, but you're giving that teen you're helping a complex!
10:14 AM
Anonymous said...
I love that, as usual, the manga-loving librarians took this post way too seriously.
I hate manga and love other comic books. Even if I did like manga, saying that 'Watchmen' or 'Maus' is a manga would be demented.
12:27 PM
Anonymous said...
How would calling Watchmen or Maus manga be demented? You're still calling a comic book a comic book. Manga is just a comic, and a comic is a manga. You're just using a different word from a different language.
3:56 PM
Anonymous said...
aaaahhhhh! But under no circumstances are Maus or Watchmen "comic books"!
12:44 PM
Anonymous said...
Better yet, ask for a budget for graphic novels and wait for the pause..."Well, HOW graphic?" LOL
12:31 PM
Anonymous said...
And the comment on graphic got stuck in the filter here. LOL squared!
12:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Whoa, some people have cubicles?! It's the bullpen for us.
1:35 AM
Comic book-loving librarians should refer to their beloved medium as anime and/or manga. Doing so will cause your library colleagues to suddenly recognize your interest as a legitimate genre and give you lots of money to build a collection at your library. If this doesn't work, you can always return to your strategy of drawing half-naked, doe-eyed Japanese girl samurais and posting them in your cubicle.
"Manga, Collecting"
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Even better is to get your teens talking about it, and getting their input on which series/titles to carry. Then you can go to your Director/Board and give concrete evidence that there is interest in the genre.
But the references of manga/anime can't hurt either!
4:32 PM
Bishounens pics
4:40 PM
Not even. Anime is animation. Movies. Not books. Manga are comic books of a particular style; not all comic books are manga.
3:48 AM
Anime and manga are different and should be recognized as so, but I would like to ask my comic book lovin' colleagues to stop correcting someone every 5 seconds when they pronounce manga as "MAINGA" and not the proper "MONGA." Yes, I am impressed by your knowledge, but you're giving that teen you're helping a complex!
10:14 AM
I love that, as usual, the manga-loving librarians took this post way too seriously.
10:49 AM
I hate manga and love other comic books. Even if I did like manga, saying that 'Watchmen' or 'Maus' is a manga would be demented.
12:27 PM
How would calling Watchmen or Maus manga be demented? You're still calling a comic book a comic book. Manga is just a comic, and a comic is a manga. You're just using a different word from a different language.
3:56 PM
aaaahhhhh! But under no circumstances are Maus or Watchmen "comic books"!
12:44 PM
Better yet, ask for a budget for graphic novels and wait for the pause..."Well, HOW graphic?" LOL
12:31 PM
And the comment on graphic got stuck in the filter here. LOL squared!
12:32 PM
Whoa, some people have cubicles?! It's the bullpen for us.
1:35 AM