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A parent of children attending the Magnolia Middle School in Magnolia, Delware has launched a petition on Change.org that has garnered over 1850 signatures so far Jennifer Antonik objects to a recent decision to ban manga books from the school and discontinue the Anime Club She writes; "These valuable resources have played a significant role in[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition comes out from Oni Press. The Cowboy State Daily reports that a meeting of the Natrona County School Board in Casper, Wyoming, saw police step in after a substitute teacher was called a[...]

Yesterday, we looked at the case in Virginia where Republican politicians are using ancient and little-used local laws to bring a criminal case against the publisher and author on charges of obscenity. This month a school board was convened to vote on whether or not to keep Gender Queer in its school libraries This was called[...]

All power to Tortsein Adair over at the Beat for the persistent Googling on this one. Study Hall of Justice is a new series of novels of younger reader novels by the L'il Gotham team, written by Derek Fridolfs, illustrated by Dustin Nguyen from Scholastic, that repurposes the Justice League as kids in the same school creating their[...]

Matt Magill writes; Joe Kubert, the legendary comic book creator, and mastermind behind the school that bears his name (one which I attended) has passed away at the age of 85 On many of the comic book websites, you can read a brief biography of Joe and a list of his achievements in the field of[...]

It is considered by many to be the finest comic shop in the world. But that's not enough, apparently. Steven L Holland from Page 45 in Nottingham, is presenting interactive show-and-tell workshops on Manga And Graphic Novels for school libraries at the School Libraries Conference in Windsor tomorrow. Displaying fifty specially selected young adult graphic novels during the presentation[...]

The artist of Infinite Vacation, written by Nick Spencer and published by Image Comics, is Christian Ward. But when he's not drawing comics, he is also the head of art at a secondary school in Bethnal Green, London And he's  setting up a scheme at school to use comics and graphic novels to[...]

Clifford Meth writes; Following earlier discussions with Gene, and this morning with his daughter Nanci, I am setting up the Gene Colan Scholarship at the Joe Kubert School. In lieu of flowers and such, if you would like to contribute to this scholarship in Gene's memory, please make your check payable to "Joe Kubert[...]