Links: Pokemon Goes to the Library

by Brigid Alverson | Blogs
Jul 14, 2016 | Filed in Blogs
Things are a little slow this week, as the collective comics industry is busy getting ready for Comic-Con in San Diego. Expect a tsunami of press releases starting Monday; in the meantime, here’s what’s going on. If you’re still puzzling about the Pokemon Go phenomenon, check out the great library-focused explainer by Carla Spina right […]

Things are a little slow this week, as the collective comics industry is busy getting ready for Comic-Con in San Diego. Expect a tsunami of press releases starting Monday; in the meantime, here’s what’s going on.

A recent Facebook post from the Thomas J. Harrison Pryor Public Library in Oklahoma.

A recent Facebook post from the Thomas J. Harrison Pryor Public Library in Oklahoma.

If you’re still puzzling about the Pokemon Go phenomenon, check out the great library-focused explainer by Carla Spina right here on SLJ. It includes info on how libraries can get in on the action. If you want to try it yourself, here’s a helpful how-to article with basic instructions and some tips, and here’s a more advanced article. Then for a chuckle, read Glen Weldon’s account of his own Pokemon Go experiences at NPR’s Monkey See blog.

Gene Luen Yang is writing a new Super-Man series—not Superman, but a new character with similar powers but in an Asian setting. The first issue is out this week; check out this preview to see more.

Gwenda Bond talks about the new comic series based on her Cirque American novels.

The Indian publisher Campfire Graphic Novels has an exhibit up right now in New Delhi explaining how graphic novels are made and their educational and literary value.

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