[Michlib-l] comic books

[Kat Boyer]

We've had comics for years and I agree with Jeff.  I would put the comics
out wherever they best fit into the collection.  Most of your comic book
readers are probably going to be older teens and adults.  Sometimes kids
are interested in our Teen comics mostly because they are slender and fun
to read, but our hard-core comic people are going to be in the "new adult"
and up category.  Our demographic for American comic stories goes probably
up into patrons in their 40s.

-Kat Boyer

Kat Boyer
Interim Director
Benton Harbor Public Library


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Anderson <
Jeff.Anderson at monroe.lib.mi.us> wrote:

> Marian,
>
> Most of your comic book readers are going to be older teenagers through
> early Thirties.  I don't think the mentality to keep up with comic books is
> really a children's thing anymore. Comics are written for all ages but the
> age with expendable income (people with job) is the group they are most
> made for. If you separate your collection into children's, young adult, and
> adult you could do the comic books the same way. We just have it separated
> as children and adult.  Just take the comics that are obviously children
> (ones like looney tunes or mickey mouse) and make those for kids and
> everything else for adults. Avengers, Superman, and Teen Titan tends to
> have some blood in them and characters tend to romance each other and sleep
> together.  It it not generally super graphic but it is enough I would keep
> them out of the children's section.
>
> What can make it especially hard is that there might be a Batman comic
> that is based on the cartoon series and isn't too bad but then there will
> be a separate batman series that is much more dark and violent. So you
> can't just make a blanket judgement call about everything Batman.  So again
> we just make the very obvious stuff for kids and everything else for
> adults.
>
> If you have any questions feel free to contact me on or off list.  I keep
> up with comic book as well as catalog them. Reading them really makes
> cataloging them a lot easier.
>
> Jeff Anderson
> Collection Services
> Monroe County Library System
> 734-241-5770
> ------------------------------
> *From:* michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org [michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org] on behalf
> of Marian Volek [marianvolek at yahoo.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:30 PM
> *To:* Michlib-L
> *Subject:* [Michlib-l] comic books
>
>  We've started to offer comic books, and are wondering if anyone else
> is--particularly, how are you cataloging them and displaying them. For
> example, we started getting Looney Tunes, and will probably put it in our
> junior area. Other titles we've ordered are The New Avengers, Superman, and
> Teen Titans. The requests for comics have actually come from adults!--so
> we're confused as to who will be taking them out--any suggestions?
> Marian Volek
> West Iron District Library
> Iron River, Michigan
>
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