Graphic Novels: Other Noteworthy Resources

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The Ray & Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies (BPCL), founded in 1969 and dedicated to the acquisition and preservation of research materials on American popular culture (post 1876), is the most comprehensive repository of its kind in the United States.

P. Craig Russell s a native of Wellsville, Ohio. Included in this collection are comic books and graphic novels authored or partly authored by Russell, as well as periodicals containing either his artwork or articles about him.

Furnishes information about caricature and cartoon collections and resources.

Contains lots of resources including a list of publishers, collections, museums, and stores.

Criteria for citing comic art created by the Comic Art and Comics area of the Popular Culture Association.

An international bibliography of comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, cartoons, bandes dessinees (French comics), and related topics, divided into four sections, arranged alphabetically by author, for ease of use.

Besides Graphic Novels, this a an excellent resource for Manga, Indy Comics, Mini Comics, Comic Classics and Comics by Women.

Crime Fiction in Comic Strips, Comic Books and Graphic Novels

"...providing as close to a free resource as possible where users can easily download public domain golden age comics without the need to ask or worry about searching the net for them."

Europe's first comic shop and probably the oldest existing comic shop worldwide. The site presents the Comiclopedia, an online encyclopedia of thousands of comic artists from all over the world.

Comic Books: Buy, Sell, Trade, Consign, Collect
Lone Star Comics opened its first retail store in Arlington, Texas. More stores followed, and Lone Star Comics now serves North Texas with seven store locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. We began selling on the internet in 1997 and the rest is history!

A page devoted to graphic novel reviews specifically for those who read them the most — mainly teens — and for those who might be involved in distributing them to teens — namely teachers, librarians, and parents. The creator works as a teen librarian at the Brookline Public Library in Brookline, Massachusetts. I

Click on an element to see a list of comic book pages involving that element.

Based on a Roundtable Discussion at the Comic Art & Comics Section of the 2000 Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting Saturday, April 22, 2000.

A list of 100 females that make reading comics fun! Super Heroines, Super Villains, and damsels in distress

Each link will take you to a page where you can download or view a high quality graphic novel or excerpt freely and with no strings attached. There are plenty more to be found, but these seventeen are some of the best you’ll find.

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