In my days, we didn’t have a graphic novel section in my school library. I had to live with the History of Star Trek and Encyclopedia of Unexplained Phenomenon.
Did you know that Australians aborigines had a killing stick which puts a fatal curse on whoever it pointed to?
I remember than an enterprising student had his comic book collection hard bound (I think that was the issues of Spidey gaining cosmic powers via Captain Universe) He went to the back of the library with his ‘cronies’ and read comics without anyone being the wiser. He was nice enough to let me read some too. 🙂 On a side note I finally got Fantakada yesterday thanks to the persistence of the staff of Powerbooks Tri-noma. Just two more books to go and my Beerkada collection will be completed!!!!
Back in High School, our library actually had Manga, Barefoot Gen of Hiroshima in Filipino.
Reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies but a little more optimistic.
Graphic Novels in any school library are the sort of books that end up most likely never to be returned. If ever they would have them, you can’t take them home.
Tora^2 your comment reminded me of a few books I bought from booksale which had stamps that said ‘Property of so and so Library’ nuff said
if they weren’t stolen, the libraries themselves withdrrew those books from their collections and ended up in the inventories of Booksale or any other 2nd-hand bookshop
This reminds me of the Armchair Reader, a little library that used to be in what was then Parksquare 2. They had a shelf dedicated to comics like Asterix, Tintin, and a bunch of other cool stuff that I really dug into as a kid.
Too bad they didn’t last long, musn’t have made enough of a profit (even way back then, when the PH was still somewhat economically stable).
I spent some of my college years in armchair reader galleria.
dkogets =(
Back in the day, the closest thing we had to comics in our library was Tintin. Awa ng diyos, bumabalik naman sa lib yung mga issuess.
Andre: Two things: a)The Philippines is not doing as badly as you think it is. It’s part hype, part we’re-too-used-to-crisis-management-anyway; b)sadly, there is no market here for libraries. Fucking shame.
baka pwedeng gumawa ng library exclusively for graphic novels, comics and pocketbooks? Yung may membership fee tsaka not open to the public para less chances of the collection getting swiped?
may library na puro graphic novels/comics kami nakita problema lang puro naka-korean language dito sa pinas. sa isang japanese restaurant sa makati merong manga pero konti lang. sa singapore meron silang reading library puro manga in chinese, i think membership nga siya and they get profit lang by selling coffee or if somebody wants to buy the manga also.
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@Cow: Re: A): I guess I could have worded that better. I realize that while the PH has some problem’s, it’s not on the scale of what the US has (we haven’t been MC Hammer broke yet).
B) It’s wishful thinking, but I do wish the government would spend some more time and cash on sustained reading initiatives that would attract the public to local libraries and whatnot. Reading (be it comics or the more standard textual fare) isn’t getting the attention it deserves anymore. Just by reading comics alone, a kid could expand his vocabulary or be exposed to a broad spectrum of subjects of interest.