Recent content by Laura Mehaffey

I consider graphic novels to be book made up of comics content. Basically, trade paperbacks that collect stories from single issue stories and put them together in a cohesive whole or storyline. There are some that consider graphic novels to simply be those stand-alone books like Kingdom Come...

I promote comics AND manga. I promote anything in the graphic medium. I believe that reading any sort of graphic novel improves your literacy rate. That's why we have 3000+ books, and everything from Garfield to Watchmen to Sailor Moon. I'm not gonna lie, that was one of our original...

Hi there, Head Librarian Laura here! Thank you for such a wonderful article and discussion about my passion! In answer to one question, yes, to be a librarian you have to have a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science. And Lonzo, despite the fact that manga are "real" comics...