One of the volunteer opportunities available for youth at TBPL is joining the Youth Action Council. This group meets monthly during the school year to discuss Library services, programs, and collections for teens. This May, the current YAC group went shopping at Chapters and these are just some of the titles they selected for purchase!... Continue Reading →
Photo by Amber Hayes The Kao is Vincent Kao, an illustrator and comic artist known for his slice-of-life Web series, Mondo Mango, and the Prism Award-winning webcomic Magical Boy. Vincent graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a bachelor of fine arts in illustration. His work includes storyboarding, comics for independent studios, covers and posters... Continue Reading →
It's Pride Month, and just like every year, we are showing off our amazing collection with a booklist! Ordinarily, this would be a genre list year: romances, fantasies, etc. with queer characters. However, it turns out that there are so many great books being published (and that we are buying) that fit those parameters, such... Continue Reading →
Curious about superhero stories but not interested in reading comics? This episode is for you! Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform by searching for Read This Next or watch on our YouTube channel. Place your TPBL holds for print books through our online catalogue, or search for eBooks through cloudLibrary. For full details about these titles... Continue Reading →
One of my fondest memories that I look upon with true nostalgia is my mother taking myself and brother on our weekly trip to the used book store on the corner of May and Miles. But we weren’t there for books, we were there for comics. Once in the store’s comic book section, it was... Continue Reading →
Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tony Cliff is a ten-year veteran of that city’s animation industry and a contributor to the Flight series of anthologies. He has been nominated for Shuster, Harvey, and Eisner Awards. Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant was his first published graphic novel and is the product of work... Continue Reading →
Choose Your Hero The Avengers Doctor Strange, by Jason Aaron Captain America: the Death of Captain America, by Ed Brubaker Black Panther: Civil War, by Reginald Hudlin Ultimate Comics Iron Man, by Nathan Edmonson Secret Invasion, by Brian Michael Bendis The Avengers: the Avengers Initiative, by Fred Van Lente All-new Captain... Continue Reading →
Chris Roberson is the co-creator, along with artist Michael Allred, of the iZOMBIE comics, which are the basis of the hit CW television series, and the writer of several New York Times best-selling Cinderella miniseries set in the world of Bill Willingham's Fables. He is also the co-creator of Edison Rex with artist Dennis Culver,... Continue Reading →
Do you remember the campy version of Batman from the 1960’s TV show? That’s the way he was portrayed for several decades. But everything changed in 1986 thanks to Frank Miller’s Batman: the Dark Knight Returns. Miller’s depiction of the Dark Knight, along with Alan Moore’s Watchmen, ushered in a new, darker era for comic... Continue Reading →
Since the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie came out in 2014, comic fans everywhere fell in love with this previously little-known superhero team. Out of the whole group of loveable misfits, my favourite is probably Groot, the sentient alien tree. I think I’m not alone in this because Marvel Comics decided to give Groot... Continue Reading →
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