The Public Library!

Over the weekend I got Birth of a Nation, Rose (the Bone prequel), the Goon vol. 1 & 2, and 100 Bullets vol. 3. Maddie got Cerebus: High Society, Epileptic, and some other stuff.

I'm extremely happy to have finally read BoaN and Goon, and 100 Bullets and Cerebus are perfect examples of "I would read it but don't want to spend twenty bucks to do it".

Also French nouvelle vague!
Alphaville & Le Samourai

And that new autechre. :(

w00t! I've been watching some public library Godard lately myself. The last public library comic I got out was probably Jimmy Corrigan, but that was a while ago. I wish my PL had Finder.

i got
jimmy corrigan
that frank cho book wosname meadows (ouch! how crap is it?)
burn's black hole
clowe's ice haven
orbiter (ellis)
the bone telephone book
and an acme novelty hardcover

yipes!

I understand that if you want antropomorphic animals and soft-core cheesecake in the service of non-humour-based jokes, then Liberty Meadows hits the spot, though if so you may wish to consider killing yourself for the good of everyone.

yet to read orbiter (weren't you singing the collen doran praise to me?)

I started reading this at uComics.com for the pulchritude, but I'm starting to hate myself for it. The animals aren't funny and the humans all need a punch in the face.

But in the meantime, my library got the copy of Comics Between the Panels that I requested in nine days, so big ups to them.

in other news, I bought the Flaming Carrot colour photo-comic and it is shit, your suspicions were totally founded.

I've been getting some decent stuff from the YA section of my local library as of late-- reread Sandman, the collected Supernatural Law turned out to be entertaining and well done, and I reread Chester Brown's autobiographical comics too. That scene in I Never Liked You where he sits in the row behind the girl who's trying to take him out on a date at the movie theater is great-- so honest about what being an adolescent is actually like in all its idiotic foot-shooting glory.

Errrr...... is this for real???!?

All Free Library of Philadelphia Customers,

We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the State Legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009.

err, didn't notice this was on ILC, will try an ILE thread

Yeah, I think it's for real; been making the rounds today.

i will probably never write the your content filtering policy is technologically flawed & socially irresponsible irate-patron-letter i occasionally get the impulse to write. it would be super depressing to find out that it isn't just that they're confined by the technology, but that they're okay with cutting off access to valuable resources because they have swears.

so much stuff coming up under 'occult'.

if it's filtered it's occult by definition

Queens Central and Mid-Manhattan libraries: I kiss you both for all the great comics you've lent me.

Currently reading Macedonia by Pekar, Roberson and Piskor.

Not comics related, but the publisher Penguin is planning on making its tiles available as e-books:

http://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2012/06/21/penguin-group-usa-launches-library-lending-pilot-program?utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NYPLNews201207&utm_campaign=NYPLNews

So I went to the Public Library last night, and they had a decent selection of "graphic novels"! The librarian looked at me like I was a moron when I brought an armload of "graphic novels" to the check-out desk, particularly when I said "They're for my kid."
Shame makes me lie.
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 14:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

Hahaha. I did the same thing a few weeks ago, finding several dozen hardback trades at the local library that I hadn't read. Walked out with a 7" stack of trades - good one stop catch-up.

i like this place. mine has giant windows that look out over an old cemetery.

http://yearlongphotos.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/october-17-2012-boise-library.jpg?w=600

today they told me i qualify for a free membership even though i'm not a borough resident because i work for the school district.

!!!

The reading room at the ny pubic library is closed.

My old library in Round Rock had "The Death Ray" and "Locas Vol 2," making me very, very happy indeed.

QBPL has changed their logo, color scheme and website.

What comics did you get, though?

Ha, sorry, realized that later.

"Well, I'll be glad to help - on one condition. Give me a chance to show you that the library isn't some kind of prison or torture chamber."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pSI-HOirM