Update 12/18/13: NJLA 2013 - Growing Up With Graphic Novels. This presentation gives an overview of various graphic novel publishers and how to create your own online resource guide. There are steps on how to create specific accounts and extended information for those in need. Additionally, we have included some popular and coming soon titles that might be important to your collection. We have information for tweens, teens and children. Please email me at LanoraTM@gmail.com not SPLYouths@gmail.com - Thank you!

1. Growing Up with
Graphic Novels
Stephen Hrubes
Piscataway Public Library &
Monroe Township Library
Lanora Melillo
Secaucus Public Library

3. ProfessionalResources

4. ProfessionalResources

5. Publishers

6. Publishers

8. Reviewers & Blogs

9. Reviewers & Blogs

10. The Distributor

13. The Crowd

16. Setting Up
Your Own
Resource
Guide

17. Public
Resources
Vs.
Private
Resources

19. Specific to your needs
Wiki
RSS
Blog
Drop Box
Google Drive

21. Specific to your needs
Wiki
RSS
Blog
Drop Box
Google Drive

22. WIKI - A Web site developed
collaboratively by a
community of users, allowing
any user to add and edit content.

24. Quick
Tutorial

25. Quick
Tutorial

26. Quick
Tutorial
Home page allows you
to access your
projects

27. Steps 1, 2 & 3
Quick
Tutorial

29. Quick
Tutorial
Now you are ready to get
started by adding your
pages and making your wiki
page work for you

30. Quick
Tutorial
Click on files to add and edit
your content.

31. RSS - Rich Site Summary -
is a family of web feed formats
used to publish frequently
updated works

32. RSS Quick
Tutorial

33. RSS
Quick
Tutorial

34. Chrome & Firefox Extensions
Quick
Tutorial

35. Quick
Tutorial

36. Quick
Tutorial

37. Quick
Tutorial

38. Quick
Tutorial

39. Quick
Tutorial

40. Quick
Tutorial

41. Quick
Tutorial

43. http://pinterest.com/marvelofficial/ http://pinterest.com/dccomics/
http://pinterest.com/idwpublishing/idw-staff-faves/

44. Visual Bookmarking-
are websites that enable
users to save images or
bookmarks based on themes,
collections, interests or hobbies

45. Cloud Storage -
is a model of networked enterprise
storage where data is stored not
only in the user's computer, but in
virtualized pools of storage which
are generally hosted by third parties

46. Cloud
Storage

47. Cloud
Storage

48. Quick
Tutorial
Step 1: Enter your
information and click sign up

49. Step 2: Install Dropbox (which should
start automatically).
Quick
Tutorial

50. Quick
Tutorial
Step 3: After your download, you will
be asked to log in or create an
account.
Note: Windows might ask you to
enable access with a Firewall block.
You must enable Dropbox for it to
work.
Images taken from http://www.kaigin.com/filesection/274/DropBox.pdf

51. Quick
Tutorial
Step 4: After selecting your
setup type, you will be done!
Dropbox saves as a little
Icon on your bottom toolbar.
Images taken from http://www.kaigin.com/filesection/274/DropBox.pdf

52. p
Quick
Tutorial
Step 5– You are now down with your
set up. You can files by dragging
them into your folders.
For more information on how to
share folders visit Kaigin’s Dropbox
Tutorial or e-mail me at
SPLYouths@gmail.com

53. Image taken From The Verge

54. New, Popular and
Coming Soon Titles
for Children, Tweens & Teens
image taken from http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/122910_allbooks.jpg

55. Huzzah!
You have the
latest
Babymouse.

56. Titles for Children
6/13 Akissi: Feline Invasion by
Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin
7/9 Beginning Pearls (Pearls
Before Swine) by Stephan Pastis

57. 2/22 Adventure Time: v. 1 by Ryan
North and Braden Lamb
3/5 Adventure Time Vol. 2 by Ryan
North, Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb
4/3 Adventure Time Vol. 1
Mathematical Ed. by Ryan North, Shelli
Paroline and Braden Lamb
8/6 Adventure Time Vol. 2
Mathematical Ed. by Ryan North, Shelli
Paroline and Braden Lamb

58. 10/1 Scene But Not Heard
by Sam Henderson
5/14 Odd Duck
by Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon

59. 5/28 My Little Pony Volume 1:
Friendship Is Magic by Katie Cook
10/8 My Little Pony Volume 2:
Friendship is Magic by Heather Nuhfer
5/28 LEGO® Ninjago #7: Stone Cold
by Greg Farshtey and Jolyon Yates
10/22 LEGO® Ninjago #8: Destiny of
Doom by Greg Farshtey

60. Titles for Tweens
8/23 Star Wars: Jedi Academy
by Jeffrey Brown
4/18 Star Wars: Darth Vader and
Son by Jeffrey Brown
4/23 Star Wars: Vader's Little
Princess by Jeffrey Brown

61. Titles for Tweens
8/6 Monster on the Hill
by Rob Harrell
9/1 What's Up with Sam's
Grandma?: Medikidz Explain Lung
Cancer by Kim Chilman-Blair BSc
MB ChB and Shawn deLoache

62. 5/28 (reprint)
Tommysaurus Rex
by Doug Tennapel
2/26 Timmy Failure: Mistakes
Were Made by Stephan Pastis

63. 2/26 The Adventures of Superhero
Girl by Faith Erin Hicks and Rachel
Edidin
9/26 Vamplets Volume One: The
Nightmare Nursery by Gayle
Middleton, Dave Dwonch and
Amanda Coronado
KICKSTARTER SUCCESS PROJECT

64. Titles for Teens
7/23 Infinite Vacation Deluxe by
Nick Spencer and Christian Ward
6/11 The Superior Spider-Man,
Vol. 1: My Own Worst Enemy
by Dan Slott and Ryan Stegman

65. Titles for Teens
6/11 Primates: The Fearless
Science of Jane Goodall, Dian
Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim
Ottaviani and Maris Wicks
6/11 Clone Volume 1 by Juan Jose
Ryp and David Schulner

66. 9/10 Papercutz Slices #5:
The Farting Dead
by Stefan Petrucha
and Rick Parker
5/19 Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a
Weapon by Matt Fraction, David
Aja and Javier Pulido
7/23 Hawkeye: Little Hits, Vol. 2
by Matt Fraction, David Aja and
Javier Pulido

67. 8/13 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
Vol. 1 by Shinobu Ohtaka
10/8 Vol. 2
12/10 Vol. 3
5/7 Nothing Can Possibly Go
Wrong by Prudence Shen
and Faith Erin Hicks

68. Resources & Links
• No Flying No Tights noflyingnotights.com
• Graphic Novel Reporter graphicnovelreporter.com/
• YA Books Central yabookscentral.com/
• New Jersey Core Collection comicsnj.pbworks.com
• Previews World previewsworld.com
• Comic Book Resources comicbookresources.com/
• DC Comics dccomics.com/blog/fans
• Marvel Comics marvel.com/news/archive
• Diamond Comics diamondcomics.com/
• 2014 Great Graphic Novels for Teen Nominations
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/ggnt/nominations

69. Resources & Links
• Handy 4 Class Pinterest Guide tinyurl.com/ns93apu
• Kickstarter kickstarter.com/
• Feedly feedly.com/
• Twitter twitter.com/
• IDW Publishing idwpublishing.com/
• Bookshelf diamondbookshelf.com
• Good Comics For Kids blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/
• Google Drive Vs Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others:
a cloud sync storage face-off by Ellis Hamburger
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2954960/google-
drive-dropbox-skydrive-sugarsync-cloud-storage-
competition

70. Growing Up with
Graphic Novels
 Have questions? Contact Us 
Lanora Melillo
Secaucus Public Library
SPLYouths@gmail.com
@librarianbunny
Stephen Hrubes
Piscataway Public Library
Monroe Township Public Library
Shrubes@piscatawaylibrary.org