On October 25th, 2011, BAYA presented “Who’s Afraid of Comic Books?! Building and Maintaining Graphic Novel Collections in Your Library.”  This half-day workshop featured a presentation featured a lecture packed with advice about organization and collection development for graphic novel collections, a short film about manga, and a creator panel.  We were thrilled to have the creators Jason Shiga, Derek McCulloch, Tyler Ortman, and Mark Siegel join us to discuss their work with us, and share with everyone in attendance their love of — and belief in the possibilities of — comic books!

For those who missed this spectacular event, we wanted to share some of the goodies that were presented that day:

Annotated Bibliography - A painstakingly curated list of 60-someodd books that deserve a place in your teen graphic novel collections!

Guide to Online Resources - An enormously useful list of places to go to find news and reviews from the world of comic books, with helpful hints for building your collection!

Teens Talk About Manga - A short film assembled by BAYA and comprised of interviews with our teen patrons, as they tell us why they love manga so much!

Thanks again to everyone who came and made this event such a success!