You’ve been watching the news, you’ve been reading the articles, but are you prepared for a challenge in your own library? This discussion will include a brief history of comics specific bans, best practices, recent examples, actionable steps for defending collections, and support from others in the comic librarianship community.
Challenges Among Award Winning Books
Join us for this exciting panel of graphic novel and comics creators as we discuss the challenges they face in our industry, as well as the effects on award lists, collection development, and publishing.
Join us for this panel of creators, educators and publishers as we discuss the challenges that have never gone away in our industry and only gotten worse in the past few years. Hear from our knowledgeable panel on what we can to to address these issues and look forward to a more even playing field.
Panelists: Lauren Kratz, Jadzia Axelrod, Jeremy Holt, Tri Vuong
Moderator: Arune Singh
Addressing Comics Challenges
In the last few years comics have experienced some of the highest number of bans since the 1950s. To meet this challenge, GNCRT’s newest committee has created a Toolkit on Preparing For & Addressing Comic Book Bans, Censorship, and Challenges in Libraries. During this session the Committee will present their Toolkit as well as findings from their recent survey of 100+ schools and libraries on comics censorship. We will be joined in this panel by award winning–and challenged–comics creators.
Panelists: Maia Kobabe, Amie Wright, Eric Carpenter, Jack Phoenix
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