Well, after a load of huffing and puffing, I've finally set up a permenant Graphic Novel section at work. I've donated, scrounged and knicked every gn and tpd and hdbk I could get my grubby little hands on, and I'm quite pleased with the results. I hope to maybe see a few boarders down for a peak sometime?
However, I'm still looking to expand and get new stock, so I wouldn't mind a few suggestions. It'd have to be stuff that'll be popular and is likely to go out, as I'm going to have to argue my case for the money to get the.
The current stock list consists of:
Outsize/European/2000AD:
-Big Baby hdbk (Charles Burns)
-Quimby Mouse hdbk (Chris Ware)
-In the Shadow of No Towers hdbk (Art Spiegelman)
-The Bloody Streets of Paris (Jacque Tardi + Leo Malet)
-Blueberry 2: Ballad For A Coffin (Jean-Michel Charlier + Moebius)
-Terry & The Pirates: Out of the Frying Pan... (milton Caniff)
-Glimmer Rats hdbk (Gordon Rennie + Mark Harrison)
-Rain Dogs hdbk (Gordon Rennie + Colin Wilson)
-Nikolai Dante: The Romanov Empire (Robbie Morrison + Simon Fraser)
-Slaine: The King Special Edition (Pat Mills + Glenn Fabry)
-Halo Jones Book One (Alan Moore + Ian Gibson)
-Judge Dredd & The Angel Gang (John Wagner, Alan Grant, Mike McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith + Robin Smith)
-Judge Dredd/Batman: Vengeance on Gotham (John Wagner, Alan Grant + Cam Kennedy)
-Judge Dredd: Blind Justice (John Wagner + John M. Burns)
Standard tpb/hdbks:
-Aliens: Genocide (John Arcudi, Damon Willis + Karl Story)
-Ancient Joe: El Bizarro (C. Scott Morse)
-Batman: Anarky (Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle, Cam Smith + various)
-Batman: Manbat (Jamie Delano + John Bolton)
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Autumnul (various)
-Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire (various)
-Catwoman: Crooked Little Town (Ed Brubaker, Mike Oeming, Cameron Steewart + various)
-Crisis on Multiple Earths: Volume 2 (Dennis O'Neil, Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky, Sid Greene + various)
-Enigma (Peter Milligan + Duncan Fegredo)
-Ghost World (Daniel Clowes)
-Hellblazer: Haunted (Warren Ellis + John Higgins)
-The Hobbit (Chuck Dixon + David Wezel)
-How to Be An Artist (Eddie Campbell)
-I Never Liked You (Chester Brown)
-Illiegal Alien (James Robinson + Phil Elliot)
-Marvel Masterworks Vol. 8: The Incredible Hulk (Stan Lee + Jack Kirby)
-Jimmy Corrigon: The Smartest Boy On Earth (Chris Ware)
-JSA: Justice Be Done (James Robinson, Stepehn Sakowski + various)
-League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. I (Alan Moore + Kevin O'Neil)
-The Light Fantastic (Scott Rockwell + Steven Ross)
-Lone Wolf & Cub #15 (Kazuo Koike + Goseki Kojima)
-Lone Wolf & Cub #32 (Kasuo Koike + Goseki Kojima)
-Love & Rockets (Jamie Hernandez)
-Maus (Art Spiegelman)
-Miracleman: The Golden Age (Neil Gaiman + Mark Buckingham)
-Planetart: The Fourth Man (Warren Ellis + John Cassaday)
-Playing the Game (Dorris Lessing + Charlie Adlard)
-The Prisoner book a (Dean Motter + Mark Asquith)
-Promethea Book 3 hdbk (Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III + Mick Gray)
-The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth + various)
-The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (Neil Gaiman + Yoshitaka Amano)
-The Simpson's Comics Royale (various)
-Skreemer (Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins + Steve Dillon)
-Swamp Thing: Earth to Earth (Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, John Totleben + Alfredo Alcala)
-Star Trek: Depp Space Nine - Dax's Comet (various)
-Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye (Terry Austin & Chris Sprouse)
-Son of Superman (Howard Chaykin, J.H. Williams III + Mick Gray)
-Superman: Kal (Dave Gibbons + Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez)
-The Tale of Bad Rat (Bryan Talbot)
-Tomb Raider: The Merlin Stone (various)
-Watchmen (Alan Moore + DAve Gibbons)
More to come...
Well done that man!
It's a darn sight better stocked than my library. Though they've got a copy of LOXG vol 2 that I'm avoiding reading.
Bolt-01
The Hellboy GNs might move nicely at the minute and they're great as well.
Top Ten 1 & 2 too.
I`d recommend some Doonesbury big paperbacks. It`s a very funny cartoon, very good on American politics and routinely annoys famous people.
are the Hernandez bros still doing Love and Rockets? Is it good these days?
I know there still doing all that 'Luch' stuff.
I actually think I had some Doonesbury here, although I'm not sure where it's gone. I've got a few newspaper strips, like Alex, Posy Simmond's Gemma Bovery and Steve Bell's If..., and I'd like to expand it a bit.
Definitely try and chase up some Hellboy and Top 10.
Just got word that I've got ?70 to spend on gn's, so if anyone's got any ideas of anything else I can get, please let me know soon - I'm looking for anything at all, as long as you think it'll go out.
As for the rest of my list, we have:
Newspaper strips:
-Gemma Bovery (Posey Simmonds)
-For Whom The Bell Tolls (Steve Bell)
-Unbelievable If... (Steve Bell)
-The Alex Technique: Being Rich in the City (Russell Taylor)
Reference:
-The Science of Superheros (Lois H. Gresh + Robert Weinberg)
-The Slings & Arrows Comics Guide (2nd Edition)
-Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics (Frederik L. Schodt)
-Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe + Oscar Zarate)
-Othello (William Shakespeare + Oscar Zarate)
-Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud)
V for Vendetta?
From Hell?
Hmm, nice list though!
V For Vendetta! Yes, of course!
This is paying dividends already!
The Luther Arkwright GN's would be another nice addition.
If there's anyone on the board who lives around Byron's library, could you steal some of these books for me?
After much indicisiveness and heartbreak (as well as having to fit a budget of ?100) I have chosen (subject to availability and change):
-League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 2 (Alan Moore + Kevin O'Neil)
-V For Vendetta (Alan Moore + Dave Lloyd)
-From Hell (Alan Moore + Eddie Campbell)
-Comics and Sequential Art (Will Eisner)
-Necronauts (Gordon Rennie + Frazer Irving)
-American Splendor Presents: Bob and Harv's Comics (Harvey Pekar + Robert Crumb)
-Whiteout (Greg Rucka + Steve Lieber)
-Scarlet Traces (Ian edginton + D'Israeli)
Total: ?102.02
Will that extra two pounds and two pence be coming out of your pay ?
What amount do you think you'll be able to claim (read pinch) from the library for me? I spent about 10 hours on the site at least, that includes image cropping.
er, bump. I've run out of cash man!
Having just read it, I could heartily recommend Ed the Happy Clown - but only for mature readers!!!
Hmmm...I've just been reading Fred the Clown (which I can heartily reccomend). There seem to be a lot of clown related comics about at the moment. Are clowns the new monkeys?
Max - what you need to really do is work out a price that I can submit: work out what you think is a resonable price per hour, and then times it by ten for the total. You might need to provide me with a receipt, which should just be a breakdown of the price (eg. what you did, price charged per hour, number of hours worked), but I'll let you know if I need it for definite.
It might take a while though: my manager's had to be off work for some while as her husband's just died, and my overall manager's also off with the flu, and I'm stilll waiting for my old expenses to be cleared yet!
ok, what do you guys normally get paid?
It depends on what grade you are working at: Counter/Shelving Assistants start at around ?6 p/h, whereas a Library Assistant gets ?9 p/h. Of course, IT is a gifferent dept. with entirely different pay structure. Having previously worked in Payroll (for LSHTM), I know that IT jobs can vary wildly: some pay extrememly well, others are more mundane and everyday and don't pay as well. A lot of it depends on the work you are doing, who you're doing it for, and whther or not you are permenantly employed or freelance.
"Will that extra two pounds and two pence be coming out of your pay ?"
No Mr. Nixon, I will be liberating those funds from the council budget, striking a blow agaist the Evil Empire!
Can you try and find out what the normal freelance fee would be?
I don't think Camden actually sub-contracts IT work - it's all done either through the IT dept. or the Telewest who provide our server.
Then is ?5 an hour to little or to much?