{"id":24133,"date":"2011-11-29T22:29:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T05:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/comic-books-at-the-library.html"},"modified":"2011-11-29T23:32:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T06:32:30","slug":"comic-books-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/comic-books-at-the-library.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic Books at the library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I plan on dropping off my boxes of graphic novels I&#39;m not likely to reread at our local library sometime soon.  I hope some of them end upon the shelves, not just the &quot;Friends of the Library&quot; sale table. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_lve3et0ZLw1qbujox.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com\/post\/13506630116\/superheroeslibrary'>DC Women Kicking Ass &#8211; Guest post: Superheroes at your library<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGuest post: Superheroes at your library There is a lot of focus on the LCS when there is a discussion about new comic readers and getting more women reading comics. But the LCS is only part of it \u2014&#8230;&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I plan on dropping off my boxes of graphic novels I&#39;m not likely to reread at our local library sometime soon. I hope some of them end upon the shelves, not just the &quot;Friends of the Library&quot; sale table. #ddtb Embedded Link DC Women Kicking Ass &#8211; Guest post: Superheroes at your library Guest post: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/comic-books-at-the-library.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comic Books at the library&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24661,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/reiventing-superheroes-threat-or-menace.html","url_meta":{"origin":24133,"position":0},"title":"Reinventing superheroes: threat or menace?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Dec-11 3:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So here's the problem with a comic book character that's been around ten, twenty, seventy years ... it's hard to come up with something new for them to do, some fresh approach that makes current fans clap with appreciation and non-fans come over and buy the comic.At which point, editors\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25493,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/justice-league-gender-flipped.html","url_meta":{"origin":24133,"position":1},"title":"Justice League, gender-flipped","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Jan-12 9:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Reaction 1: \"Wow, there's only two guys there.\"Reaction 2: \"Look how much clothes they're wearing\"Dear DC. 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