{"id":11056,"date":"2015-06-28T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2015-06-28T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T18:51:33","slug":"artists-alley-at-alaac15-is-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/artists-alley-at-alaac15-is-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist&#8217;s Alley at #alaac15 is Amazing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">The Artist\u2019s Alley is one of my favorite areas of the exhibit hall. \u00a0While there, I met many artists and writers of popular graphic novels. \u00a0\u00a0On this aisle are items for readers of all ages. \u00a0Here is a virtual tour of some of what I saw. \u00a0There were free comic books featuring<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: italic;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgcomics.com\/g-man-super-journal-awesome-origins\/\" target=\"_blank\">G-MAN<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> by Chris Giarrusso. Matt Phelan had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattphelan.com\/graphic-novels.html\" target=\"_blank\">teachers&#8217; guides<\/a> for his fantastic graphic novels.\u00a0Kip Noschese was sharing his work in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: italic;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=urkEFciR41A\" target=\"_blank\">Otto &amp; the Grand Prix Bees<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">. First Comics was there with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcomicsnews.com\/?p=110353\" target=\"_blank\">Tales of the <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: italic;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcomicsnews.com\/?p=110353\" target=\"_blank\">S.S. Junky Star<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> \u00a0You can read a review of it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/goodcomicsforkids\/2013\/05\/28\/review-tales-of-the-s-s-junky-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I picked up an advanced reader\u2019s copy of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: italic;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/product\/creeps_9781419713798\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Creeps: Night of the Frankenfrogs<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> by Chris Schweizer. \u00a0I met the artists and writers of Teen Boat, Oddly Normal, <a href=\"http:\/\/kidbeowulf.com\/new-readers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kid Beowulf<\/a>, The Misadventures of Salem Hyde, A Brief History of Everyday Objects, Princeless and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicclassics.com\/pgs\/gc22_pv.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Graphic Classics Vol. 22<\/a>. \u00a0The last thing I did was pick up a copy of the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/librarian-tools\/cbldf-banned-books-week-handbook\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBLDF Banned Books Week Handbook for 2015<\/a>. \u00a0I had a great time. \u00a0I hope you enjoy the virtual tour, and browsing the selections. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\">__________________<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Angela Chadbourne <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.666666666666666px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Youth Services Librarian <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.6666666666667px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent\">Santa Clarita Public Library<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artist\u2019s Alley is one of my favorite areas of the exhibit hall. \u00a0While there, I met many artists and writers of popular graphic novels. \u00a0\u00a0On this aisle are items for readers of all ages. \u00a0Here is a virtual tour of some of what I saw. \u00a0There were free comic books featuring G-MAN by Chris Giarrusso. Matt Phelan had teachers&#8217; guides for his fantastic graphic novels.\u00a0Kip Noschese was sharing his work in Otto &amp; the Grand Prix Bees. First Comics was there with Tales of the S.S. Junky Star. \u00a0You can read a review of it here. \u00a0I picked up an advanced reader\u2019s copy of The Creeps: Night of the Frankenfrogs by Chris Schweizer. \u00a0I met the artists and writers of Teen Boat, Oddly Normal, Kid Beowulf, The Misadventures of Salem Hyde, A Brief History of Everyday Objects, Princeless and Graphic Classics Vol. 22. \u00a0The last thing I did was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[510,22,134,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2015","category-childrens-literature","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}