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 absolute must have for all Australian libraries.

For more on Josh and book launch dates across Australia check out: https://www.joshuasantospirito.com

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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.alia.org.au/

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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
• The Graphic Medicine International Collective's shortlist

And they discuss their favourite picks out of the new titles out this month:

• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• New Hello Twigs comics from Andrew McDonal and Ben Wood (Hardie Grant Children's Publishing)

And they announce our upcoming webinar. We're really excited about this webinar and we have three incredible guests. Make sure you register for it.

For more information, news, new titles and to register for the webinar please visit our website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/

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