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Librarians, Hello Sunshine just got a much deserved Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults honor from ALA/GNCRT. If we want more comics we know teens’ll love: get it on every library shelf. With our support, we’ll get sequels, & creators like @keezyyoung.bsky.social can keep making amazing work.

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Sep 24

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics

Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

cover of hello sunshine featuring alex laying in a red flowers with eyes. red hands reach up from the ground to touch him. in the background the other four kids and cass the dog stand in a line in a field of daisies

a photo of alex with his back to the camera facing a red monster with daisies for eyes on the ceiling

the protagonists from hello sunshine sitting in a row looking nervous with the daisy eyes monster behind them in the darkness. in the center of the panel is an inset panel showing a cassette tape

January 27, 2026 at 3:19 AM

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table

@libcomix.bsky.social

Exciting news! 🎉

The inaugural Outstanding Comics Awards was announced today

Each award has three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and series!

🧵 for press releases
Browse the Awards winners and honorees on our site
www.ala.org/gncrt/awards...

#LibComix

Graphic Novels and Comics Round table announces the 2025 Outstanding comics awards for Adults, Young Adults, Children for Fiction, Non-fiction, and series. Book covers of the winners in the background.

January 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM

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Hillary Monahan

@hillarymonahan.bsky.social

George Michael did not write the greatest coming out song ever in 1990 for you motherfuckers to claim entertainment only just got gay.

youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A?...

George Michael - Freedom! ’90 (Official Video)

YouTube video by georgemichaelVEVO

youtu.be

December 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM

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ngoziu @ ECCC

@ngoziu.com

BREAKING. Enormous news in the hockey romance world...
I am thrilled to announce that CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR FIVE, a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. #omgcp 🏒🥧💕

A cell phone and rolling pin on a table surface. The cell phone screen shows a text exchange between an unknown person and ERIC BITTLE. The unknown person is sending Bitty a picture of a pie going into Betsy 2.0, an oven.

December 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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John Wiswell

@wiswell.bsky.social

Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · Dec 3

SCREAMING at these headlines calling Heated Rivalry a YA series.

The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · Dec 3

📢 Adapted from the hugely popular YA book series, Heated Rivalry balances in-you-face sex scenes with a tale of sweet romance.

December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM

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Malinda Lo

@malindalo.bsky.social

An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...

November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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Abbi Lichtenstein

@abbij1961.bsky.social

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM

Robin B.

@robin.noflyingnotights.com

I will be attending this year, representing comics librarians everywhere! More news on that soon, but just look at this amazing poster.

Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo @massmice.bsky.social · Oct 24

Hello, MICE friends! Two pieces of news, we want to show you our gorgeous poster art for MICE 2025 by Matt Smith! And…our Exhibitors Page is live! Check out the link below for a sneak preview at who’s coming to MICE!

www.micexpo.org/exhibitor-li...

A colorful graphic with a cartoon mouse holding comics
The text reads, “Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, micexpo.org
MICE Dec 6 + 7 2025. Free Admission with Registration! Over 200 Artists and Writers
Illustration by Matt Smith”

October 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Robin B.

@robin.noflyingnotights.com

This is also the scene that I want to show to anyone and everyone about why this show is so magnificent.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Oct 10

since this thread is getting traction again, let me rec you the Canadian comedy miniseries Slings & Arrows, which centers on a shakespearean theatre company exploring the makings of putting on a show. 3 seasons, 6 eps each.

scene that sold me to watch it ages ago:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2tH...

Slings & Arrows Ophelia

YouTube video by Cornelius Woodrow (Last player on the server)

www.youtube.com

October 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM

Robin B.

@robin.noflyingnotights.com

So excited to see this picked up by 23rd St!

bigbigtruck | 🍋 CITRUSCON 2/27-3/1 @bigbigtruck.com · Oct 1

been sitting on this for a year now and I can finally announce it!

ACQUISITION DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PUBLISHER'S MARKETPLACE: EK Weaver's SHOT AND CHASER, an adaptation of the author's webcomic, taking place over the course of 24 tumultuous hours in the lives of soulmates and amateur storm chasers as they follow a supercell, to Tess Banta at 23rd Street, for publication in 2027, by Anjali Singh at Anjali Singh Agency (world).

October 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM

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Matt

@mattlibrarian.bsky.social

I would love to move to New York just so I could vote for mayoral candidate Mamdani- he speaks to me in a way that very few politicians have in recent years

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

September 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM

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American Library Association

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

Love your librarian? Of course you do! Nominations are now open for the 2026 #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Your librarian could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime.

Submit your nomination online by Dec. 15! https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C

❤️ @carnegiecorp.bsky.social

I LOVE MY LIBRARIAN AWARD 2026. Your librarian could win $5,000! ilovelibraries.org/love-my-librarian. Logos for Carnegie Corporation of New York, American Library Association, and the New York Public Library

September 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM

Robin B.

@robin.noflyingnotights.com

The particular delight when you realize there’s a whole season of Midsomer Murders that you haven’t watched yet when you’re craving exactly that kind of show. Bring on death by giant wheel of cheese.

July 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM

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Boston Comic Arts Foundation

@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social

Svetlana Chmakova told us what she loves about comics and how excited she is about Awkward being chosen for Boston Reads Comics. Come meet Svetlana on Saturday, 7/26! Sign up at: bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6862a...

A quote from Svetlana Chmakova that reads: “I am so honored and excited to have my work chosen for the Boston Reads Comics Program, to get to share my love for this amazing medium, and meet with other comics readers! Comics are a huge part of my reading life, and they have been so ever since I discovered them as a teen, even before I started making my own. Reading, to me, is a big part of learning about life and the world, how to navigate it all, and the old adage “sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words” is why comics are such a powerful way to help do that. Also, they are just Really Really Fun and cool-looking, sometimes like an entire film captured in a small brick of a book volume. I can’t wait to meet everyone and talk about it.” The border reads: activities and author talk July 26th from 1-4pm. Presented by the Boston Comic Arts Foundation and the Boston Public Library. Central Library, Copley Sq. 700 Boylston St. Boston, MA

July 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM

Robin B.

@robin.noflyingnotights.com

Library folks: part of my job now is making sure our adult romance collection is engaging and exciting - what are your fav review resources for romance? Any must-have authors I should add to my list to track? (Take it as a given I know about Roman taste as a trend.)

July 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Amanda Wong

@amandawtwong.bsky.social

Panel 1: Moe from the Simpsons with the caption "Chief O'Brien"
Panel 2: Homer Simpson with the caption "The DS9 team suffering from writer's block"

July 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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ngoziu @ ECCC

@ngoziu.com

I have a new graphic novel releasing and you should preorder it! (And if you can't, please repost this!) ✨📚✨

🔗: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250179524/flip/

summary: A nerdy black girl swaps bodies with her rich white boy crush. Self-love, humor, kpop stanning, boarding school, Houston! #booksky ✨

June 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM

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mywife is soft nd ilikeher

@liveonthesun.bsky.social

i've spent nearly every class in my master's program researching this shit & yes, it really does matter that libraries get supportive feedback from their patrons about things like queer programming & pride displays. libraries have tiny budgets & they need to know that the community is benefitting

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Jun 4

hey here's something I would love us all to do like RIGHT NOW: find out if your local library is doing any kind of pride programming or display, and if they are, email them to say thank you and why it matters to you. whether or not you're queer. especially if you're in an area where it's fraught

June 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM

Robin B.

@robin.noflyingnotights.com

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

I'm fine with all of these, although I don't remember much about Alexis on Castle.

Alexis Castle from the TV show Castle, a white young woman with long red hair and light eyes.

Beverly Katz from Hannibal, a Korean American actress with long black hair and smirking smile.

Guinan from Star Trek The Next Generation, a dark skinned Black woman with a large, circular hat.

Ariadne from Inception, a young white woman with long wavy dark hair, wearing a red cardigan and a skeptical expression.

May 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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