New Year’s Day Countdown

Happy New Year, everyone.

You’ve already seen the top posts here, right? So we’ll count in the new year with a few of the year’s less-seen posts: The number is the number of hits for each item, as of the end of the year.

Thanks for reading last year. Enjoy these!

10 – These villainous-looking comic book covers are actually friendly library guides.

9 – The Angry Birds are literary critics now.

8 – Your children’s librarian never showed you these Little Golden Books.

7 – What’s the difference between the “Badlympics” and the “Northern Cities Shift”? None, they’re both the subjects of this post.

6 – Jnana Hodson describes what a career writing obituaries is like.

5 – These letters of the alphabet are hand-drawn mazes.

4 – This poor dude’s apostropharrhea keeps him from getting the kind of attention he wants and the kind of attention he deserves.

3 – Rachel Hanel’s gravedigging memoir has a brilliant pun in its title.

2 – Hardly a Word To Say.

1 – Lisa Simpson has a serious reading problem.

I’m Sick of Writing…but I Keep Thinking

(Found at Exploding Dog where Sam Brown draws the pictures from titles folks send in.)

Three Villanous-Looking Comics That are Actually Library Guides

Matt Upson, Mike Hall, and Dustin Evans write comics, and these three are guides to libraries in Connecticut and Kansas. Click each cover to read the full comic!

Monster Clash, a guide to the Wilton (CT) Library

Library of the Living Dead, a guide to the Miller Library at McPherson College (KS)

Sundown at the Library, a guide to the Graham Library at Coffeyvuill Community College (KS)

(Found at Matt Upson – Librarian.)

“…poetry!” shrieked Jacobsen.

(Found at biblioklept. Have a laugh at more Glen Baxter comics in his online gallery.)