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

For more from ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics check out our website: https://graphic.alia.org.au

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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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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 more

They also discuss their favourite picks from this month's new titles:

• Together Forever by Kristen Gudsnuk (Scholastic Inc) [9781338630824]
• Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne, Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly) [9781770466968]
• A Fox in My Brain by Lou Lubie (Fairsquare Comics) [9781960171108]
• Dwellings by Jay Stephens (Oni Press) [9781637152911]

For a full list of new release titles and all the news and resources please visit our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/

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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 libraries and doing workshops at libraries and, of course, he has three comics he recommends too.

For more on Lil Viking Space Rangers visit: https://www.lilvikingspacerangers.com/

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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 titles picks:

The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught

The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

No Remorse: The Illustrated True Stories of Lemmy Kilmister and Motörhead by various authors

Adversary by Blue Delliquanti

For a full list of new release titles and all the news and resources please visit our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/

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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 located in an Australian boarding school in the bush.

We discuss her influences, what it's like working in the manga style in Australia, the original publication of The Dreaming with Tokyo Pop and the reasons for the new expanded edition.

For more info on Queenie Chan and her comics check out her website: https://queeniechan.com/

For more from ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics check out our new website: https://queeniechan.com/

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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 coming up soon.

You can find the whole February Roundup blog post with more news, resources and the full list of new titles in our new website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/

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