In this podcast, the ALIA Graphic team discusses the latest news relevant to libraries and graphic novels. We also interview Australian comic book creators in our creator chats series. Our group of volunteers aims to support library staff interested in all aspects of collection development, advocacy and programming related to graphic novels and comics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In this creator chat Iurgi sits down to catch up with Christian Carnouche (who was in our very first creator chat back in 2020 as the writer of The Resurrected) and Meriam Carnouche who recently published Tunis to Sydney, with art by Sam Rapley, through FairSquare Graphics. Tunis to Sydney is an intimate, personal and poignant graphic novel that de…
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In this special ALIA Graphic Webinar we had three very special guests talking about their experiences in creating comics, the freedom of the creative process in comics, why it’s important to defend different stories and art and their experiences with censorship, book challenges and bans. We were absolutely honoured to have: Briar Rolfe, a Melbourne…
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In this creator chat James talks to Kyle Wiseman and Rod Riley about VOX Books, hardcover books with an easy to use and durable full audio recording of the book. VOX Books is a product of Library Ideas and they have just partnered with James Bennett in Australia. Kyle and Rod talk about VOX Books, making comics and graphic novels available in this …
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In this month's episode Jade and Mia talk about their favourite recent reads and our recent webinar. They also discuss the most interesting news from this month that have piqued their interest and their favourite new titles. Safdar Ahmed, Scott McCloud, Raina Telgemeier, and Mike Barry's Action Tank and more get lots of love. Mia also talks about h…
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In this creator chat we host Josh Santospirito, a multimedia artist, musician and comics creator. His previous two graphic novels are The Long Weekend in Alice Springs and Swallows. He has just recently published a beautiful graphic novel The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors, published by Scribe. Make sure you buy it for your library, it’s an ab…
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In this month's roundup Rebecca and Marissa discuss Pride Month graphic novel lists, essential manga, their favourite picks from this month's new lot of graphic novels (which include a few titles by Australian creators) and their favourite recent reads. For the full roundup with all the news and resources please visit our website: https://graphic.a…
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In this month's roundup Gabby and James discuss: Their recent reads James presenting at ALIA National Recent comic cons at libraries (Comic Gong, Dandy Con, King Con) More on recent attempts at bans in Australia Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier's new graphic novel: Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding Graphic novel sales in Australia are booming Th…
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In today's episode Iurgi and Mia discuss: their recent reads (Maus, Lumberjanes, Fence Vol 6: Redemption, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin) an update on Australian comics the challenges of long manga series comics sales data from the U.S. that is mind blowing - for example, 49% of comics sales in the U.S. book market went to manga and m…
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This month Rebecca sits down to chat with Paul McLaughlin, the creator and writer of Lil Viking Space Rangers. Chapter 2 is out now with art by Trudi Monteath and Sarah Rackemann. Chapter 1 and 3 have art from Liana Wright. The discussion covers this delightful and humorous comics for kids, the process of making comics, Paul's experiences with libr…
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In this roundup episode Jade and Rebecca sit discuss their recent reads, they pick their favourite newly released graphic novels and the latest news and resources, including: collection management and weeding of superhero comics, U.S. publishers ramping up releases of middle grade manga and lots of adaptations of books into graphic novels. New titl…
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In our latest creator chat, Marissa sits downs with Queenie Chan, a Sydney based comics creator working in manga style. She has published three volumes of The Fabled Kingdom, which is a mix of prose and manga, the Women Who Were Kings series of manga and now she's republishing an expanded and updated three volume edition of The Dreaming, a manga lo…
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In this month's roundup Gabby and Marissa discuss their recent reads. They also discuss Webtoons, Lore Olympus and the new Inklore imprint, and some other news like the recent article from The Guardian discussing comics, graphic novels and manga in France. They also discuss their favourite picks out of the new graphic novels published recently and …
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In this creator chat we talk to Tim McEwen, co-creator of Greener Pastures. He's been making comics since the 80s and Greener Pastures is making a comeback that will, finally, include trade paperbacks and a graphic novel. Tim and Iurgi discuss Australian comics, the Comic Arts Awards of Australia (formerly Ledger Awards) and, of course, the ambitio…
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In this creator chat we talk to Chris Gooch who’s recently published his third graphic novel with Top Shelf: In Utero. A young adult monster story with some horror thrown in for good measure. We talk about Chris' comics making process, which he often shares on social media too. His advice for young creators starting to make comics. The origins of I…
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In this month's roundup James and Iurgi comment on their recent reads and several best graphic novels of 2023 lists published by different sources such as No Flying No Tights, Popverse and The Guardian. They comment on the recent announcement of Angourleme's Grand Prix award winner. They also discuss one of the big debates last year: are comics in …
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In our final podcast for 2023, Iurgi, Marissa and Rebecca get together to discuss their favourite reads this year. It's a mix of ongoing series, new series and old publications that we have revisited. Our favourite reads this year are: Iurgi Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth Nightwing by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC Comics) Spy x Fa…
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This is a recording of the webinar held November 16 2023. We get many questions emailed to us by librarians and library staff across the country about the different factions of the graphic novel and comic world. So we thought that this year we would spend the time hearing from you and providing answers to those questions that you may have been want…
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In this episode Iurgi and Gabby discuss: the Harvey Awards announced at the New York Comic Con the little we know about Raina Telgemeier's upcoming graphic novel a really interesting survey carried out by the School Library Journal in the U.S. with really interesting data the Library Journal's upcoming Library Con Live and our very own upcoming web…
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Sarah Firth is a cartoonist, artist, writer, speaker, and graphic recorder who has been published extensively in Australia and overseas. Her work has appeared in the Eisner Award winning anthology, Drawing Power, and the Ledger Award winning anthology, Neither Here Nor Hair. She is also a founding member of Graphic Recorders Australia, a not-for-pr…
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In this month's creator chat we catch up with Sydney based writer Mat Groom, one of the creators of Inferno Girl Red. Volume 1 was an incredibly successful Kickstarter and then it was published by Image Comics, earlier this year. The team is now on campaign mode for volume 2 on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2129645662/inferno-gi…
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In this episode Marissa and Iurgi cover a lot of ground. They discuss the comic they've been reading recently, the Comic Arts Awards of Australia and their favourite picks of the new titles published recently, including four new Australian graphic novels we're really excited about. For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts vi…
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Papercuts Comics Festival is a biennial comics festival held biennially in Adelaide, it is being run for the third time this September but the festival directors, Georgina Chadderton and Owen Heitmann, still found time to sit down with James for a Creator Chat to explain why they run the festival and what we can expect from this year's program. For…
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In this creator chat we catch up with two of the most amazing creators for young readers. Both Jason Pamment and Remy Lai made quite a splash when they published their first graphic novels, Treasure in the Lake and Pawcasso. They were both in our Notable Australian Graphic Novels list in 2021 and they garnered a lot of recognition both in Australia…
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In this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, the best middle grade graphic novels of the year so far (according to Booklist), the Eisner Awards and our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels. For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/ Yo…
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In this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, reading recommendations for Pride Month(including Australian titles) and our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels. For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/ You can also follow us on Twitte…
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In this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, the latest news (including the Eisners controversies around LGBTQIA+ graphic novels, and a practical guide to comic book collection development) and, of course, our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels. We also discuss King Con, the new library comic con at Kingston …
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In our first creator chat of the year we're honoured to have James Foley and Brenton McKenna in conversation. James recently published Secret Agent Mole Book 1:Goldfishfinger(Scholastic) and Brenton McKenna recently published Hairy Holes (Magabala Books). We sat down with them after they read each other's books and they just started talking. We hop…
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You may have noticed we have been a little bit quiet. We haven’t had a podcast episode since December. That’s quite a long time. The good news is that we’re back! We have a new podcast episode with Gabby and Iurgi discussing some of the news, what they’ve been reading and discussing their favourite picks from the graphic novels released this month.…
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It's the end of the year and we've gathered to discuss our favourite graphic novels of the year, including: It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood Barb the Brave by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson Shadow of the Bird (Lightfall #2) by Tim Probert Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe Spy x Family series by Tatsuya End Our Dining Table by Mita …
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We are excited to have four amazing speakers to talk about all things comics and manga. In this webinar we will focus on Junior and YA comics as well as manga and we will explore how they inspire reading and creativity. Hosted by ALIA Graphic Convenor Iurgi Urrutia, we’re pleased to announce four incredibly exciting speakers: Gabby Cundy, librarian…
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In this month's roundup we talk about the 30th Anniversary of Power Rangers, Tommi Parrish's new graphic novel, the upcoming reprint of Queenie Chan's The Dreaming, Superman: Son of Kal El, and eComics at libraries. Borrow Box is now also offering comics through its app and Comics Plus has some exciting updates. We also discuss our favourite picks …
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In this month's creator chat, Bradley from the ALIA Graphic team, catches up with Sara W. Searle. Sarah migrated from New England to Perth and has been fully embraced by the Australian comics community where she has already received three Silver Comic Arts Awards of Australia. Her latest graphic novel is The Greatest Thing, published by First Secon…
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In this month's roundup we talk about Peach Momoko's Demon Wars, a manga that expands the Marvel Universe, mixed with Japanese folklore. We also discuss a blog post from librarian Sara Smith that gathers together all the main comic awards in the U.S. as well as YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens list in one handy blog post. We also discuss our …
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Following his article on a recent issue of ALIA's Incite magazine, in this creator chat Paul Metcalfe, coordinator of the Albany Campus Library of South Regional TAFE in WA, joins us to discuss how he introduced graphic novels to the campus' learning resource centre. He discusses at length how he fell in love with the medium, what prompted him to b…
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In this Creator Chat we catch up with Gary Proudley, the creator of Talgard a barbarian who uses intelligence to solve problems, rather than force. Talgard is also quite an interesting comic as every story is exactly four pages long and with art by a different Australian creator. Gary Proudley discusses Talgard and some of the other comics. You can…
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In this month's roundup we talk about our recent discussion with librarians on the Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable's Addressing Comic Book Bans and Challenges Commitee. The news of Will Eisner's A Contract With God going to Broadway. Melbourne based creator Reimena Yee winning an Ignatz award and of of course, we also discuss our favourite pic…
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Unfortunately we have to talk about challenges, bans and censorship of comics and graphic novels. This is not something we'd like to talk about but it's an important conversation and there are some uncomfortable truths we must face. In this special episode, we discuss challenges and bans to books and specifically to comics in libraries across the U…
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This month we catch up with Jon Sommariva, an amazing artist with a very distinct style. His art is always full of energy, dynamic and fun. He’s worked pretty much for everyone, DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, Disney and Nickelodeon. Among others. He’s drawn The Avengers, Batman, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Star Wars to name a few. In our c…
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In this month's roundup we talk about the Perth Comics Arts Festival, the Comic Arts Awards of Australia, Neverlanders by Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva, an interesting article looking at the Comics Code Authority and how it helped super hero comics. We also discuss our favourite picks from this month's new releases, what we've been reading lately an…
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In this month's roundup we talk about the Eisner Awards, the Graphic Medicine Award, Lore Olympus, our favourites picks from this month's new releases, what we've reading lately and more. For a full list of this month's news, a handy list of all the new interesting graphic novels that have caught our attention and the links to the webinars discusse…
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The first weekend of August the Perth Comic Arts Festival will be taking place and it's going to be bigger than ever with about 85 comic book creators from W.A. and across Australia tabling and presenting their comics on the market day, on Sunday 7 August. But that's not all, on Saturday, there will be plenty of panel talks and workshops. Entry to …
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This month we sit to talk with Sam Wallman, a comics journalist and cartoonist. His drawings have been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Age, ABC and SBS. He has also done a lot of work for unions and for the Workers Art Collective. He has recently published his first graphic novel, Our Members Be Unlimited, about the history of un…
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This was a great month for Australian comics. We talk about Safdar Ahmed's Still Alive receiving the NSW Premier's Book of the Year literary award and how other awards are starting to include graphic novels. We mention a couple of great podcasts and three new graphic novels by Australian creators. We also talk Manga and our favourite picks from thi…
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This month James and Marissa discuss the latest news and new release titles including Manga and Free Comic Book Day. For a full list of this month's news, a handy list of all the new interesting graphic novels that have caught our attention and the links to the webinars discussed please visit our blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com Hit the subsc…
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This month we sit to talk with the creators of Stars in Their Eyes, a graphic novel published by Fremantle press that made it to our Notable Australian Graphic Novels of 2021 Shortlist and will be published early 2023 by Scholastic internationally. Jessica Walton and Aśka talk about what attracts them to comics, how Stars in Their Eyes came about, …
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This month Gabby and Marissa discuss the latest news and new release titles including junior books, Manga and more. For a full list of this month's news, a handy list of all the new interesting graphic novels that have caught our attention and the links to the webinars discussed please visit our blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com Hit the subscr…
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Earlier this month we had Nancy Silberkleit, the co-CEO of Archie Comics talking about children, comics, reading, education and, of course, Archie Comics. This is a recording of the event. For more on Archie Comics: https://archiecomics.com To stay up to date with ALIA Graphic, subscribe to our blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com You can also fo…
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It's the end of February and that means our monthly roundup is out now. This month James and Iurgi discuss the disturbing wave of challenges and bans in the U.S. that have affected a lot of books, graphic novels, libraries, and educators. The bad news is that as distant as this may seem from Australia, the current campaign of challenges is serious …
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On our final creator chat of the year we talk to Jason Pamment who recently published Treasure in the Lake, a middle grade graphic novel that marks his debut. Jason has worked a lot in animation, short films and commercials. Tresure in the Lake, published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and New Zealand and Harper Alley in North America presents the s…
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In this month's roundup podcast we discuss the announcement that Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius' classic, The Incal looks set to be adapted into film by none other than Taika Waititi. We also discuss tbe new LGBTQ+ comics, with the announcement of a new imprint with Mariko Tamaki at the helm and Manga. Of course, we also highlight our personal pi…
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