ALIA Graphic Podcast

In this month's roundup, James and Luke discuss the comics, graphic novels and manga they've read recently: Luke: Ghost in the Shell Volume 1, Banned Book Club. James:  My Favorite Thing is Monsters Volume 2, I Ate the Whole World to Find You. 18:08 James and Luke discuss some of the news: Boom! Studios' comics will no longer be available on Comics Plus The return of Heavy Metal Magazine Rece...

In this month's roundup, Iurgi and Mia discuss the comics, graphic novels and manga they've read recently: Mia: The strange case of Harleen and Harley and Check, Please volume 1. Iurgi:   Haikyu, Demon Slayer, Apothecary Diaries, Blade Runner 2039. 09:13 Iurgi and Mia discuss some of the news: Awards (CBCA and Aurealis Awards) The final (we hope) decision on Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer by the...

In this creator chat sit down with Greg Broadmore and Nick Boshier, who have created One Path, together with Andy Lanning, a brutal and epic comic book series. The first of four volumes is out through Mad Cave. Greg Broadmore is an artist, writer and game director from New Zealand with lots of film credits in his career including: Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, and Ne...

Karen Wasson is a children’s author based in Melbourne. Jake Minton is an illustrator based in Byron Bay. Together they have created Inked, a middle grade graphic novel adventure of a fish, or maybe we should say octopus, out of water. It’s also a story about friendship and finding your own path. Inked is the first graphic novel from Hardie Grant’s new imprint dedicated to graphic novels call...

In this month's roundup podcast Luke and Iurgi start with a discussion of their recent reads. Then: 15:34 A discussion of some news including: ALIA Graphic Notables coming up, new graphic novels by Australian creators, cartoonist R.E. Burke's arrest in the U.S. and consequences of the situation in the U.S. for comic cons and book tours, a new comics app coming up called Sweet. 36:52 A discussion o...

The field of comics librarianship is growing and evolving and that’s what we want to explore in a few special episodes, talking in-depth with comics librarians.  ALIA Graphic was created as a group five years ago. And right from the start we established contact with the American Library Association’s Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable. A group that’s been around for longer than us and a gro...

We're back in 2025 and start the year with a roundup of news and new titles from December, January and February. Marissa and Luke discuss the Angouleme festival, Diamond going bankrupt, the best titles of 2024, their favourite picks from the latest crop of new titles and what they've reading lately. For more information and to check out the full roundup with all the news, articles and resources vi...

James, Gabby, and Marissa look back at the what ALIA Graphic has achieved this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we present the recording of our most recent webinar. Are you thinking of hosting a comic event at your library? Join us as we hear from those who have run these programs before and what tips and tricks to look out for.  We hear from five speakers from four library services that have run comic con events. Each of the speakers gives a brief overview of their event. SPEAKERS: Sar...

In this creator chat James meets with Dan from Greenlight Comics in Adelaide and Angelo from Kings Comics in Sydney to talk about their comics stores work with libraries and what they can offer to libraries. This is a wide ranging conversation that explores for them to partner with libraries as suppliers, what makes it appealing for libraries to work with their local comics store and their process...

In this month's roundup Marissa and Luke share their recent favourite reads: The Road: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet and Cormac McCarthy Wolvendaughter by Ver Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau Raybearer , Redemptor , and The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko, which aren't graphic novels but would make great adaptations Then they discuss some of the latest news in the...

In this creator chat James sits down with Dean Rankine, a comics artist and writer who won a Ledger Award in 2015 for Itty Bitty Bunnies: Saves X-Mas and the Stan Cross Award in Book illustration in 2020. He's the artist behind Magda Szubanski's Timmy the Ticked Off Pony and most recently he has published Death Metal Elves, with his characteristic cartoony style. Dean is most famous for working on...

In this month's roundup Jade and Mia discuss their recent favourite reads: Tabby by Stephen Kok, PR Dedelis Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule, Ryan Brown Escape From St Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up by Lewis Hancox Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo Roaming by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki Then they discuss: The Harvey Awards with the double win of the Tamaki super team; Akira Toriyama being in...

We started ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics in February 2020. The first episode of our podcast was published in March 2020 as the world prepared to go into lockdown and it's been a whirlwind ever since. We've been publishing monthly roundups of news, resources, webinars and new titles published since March 2020. We created our podcast feed and published our first creator chats in May 2020. All this...

In this creator chat Laura J. Carroll discusses her first graphic novel: Making the Shrine. Laura is a writer and visual artist living in Naarm (Melbourne). She's also a proud unionist and the extended covid lockdowns brought her back to drawing. Three years later she has published a graphic novel that explores the making of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne and stories around it. It's a tend...

In this month's roundup James and Marissa discuss their recent reads, the plans to open a national manga and animation archive in Japan, Batman Day, including some Batman must reads and banned book week. They also discuss their favourite picks from this month's new titles:: Morgana and Oz by Miyuli (Webtoon Unscrolled) [9781998854837] The Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation by Peter Wohlleb...

Mike Barry is the creator of Action Tank, a junior graphic novel series that he self published and was fully embraced not just by the ALIA Graphic committee on our notables, but also by the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge and was also shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards. It was then published in the U.S. by Scout Comics and included in the ALA Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable’s Best Graphic No...

In this month's podcast roundup Gabby and Iurgi share their favourite recent reads, they discuss an article on how to start a comics festival at the library, and a San Diego Comic Con panel where librarians reflected on the impact that comics, graphic novels and manga have had on library readership and propose the next steps to broaden its appeal. It's also the awards season, so they spotlight som...

In this creator chat Iurgi sits down to catch up with Christian Carnouche (who was in our very first creator chat back in 2020 as the writer of The Resurrected) and Meriam Carnouche who recently published Tunis to Sydney, with art by Sam Rapley, through FairSquare Graphics. Tunis to Sydney is an intimate, personal and poignant graphic novel that delves into the labyrinth of grief, resilience in th...

In this special ALIA Graphic Webinar we had three very special guests talking about their experiences in creating comics, the freedom of the creative process in comics, why it’s important to defend different stories and art and their experiences with censorship, book challenges and bans. We were absolutely honoured to have: Briar Rolfe, a Melbourne based cartoonist who loves to make comics about t...

In this creator chat James talks to Kyle Wiseman and Rod Riley about VOX Books, hardcover books with an easy to use and durable full audio recording of the book. VOX Books is a product of Library Ideas and they have just partnered with James Bennett in Australia.  Kyle and Rod talk about VOX Books, making comics and graphic novels available in this format and working with comics at a supplier...

In this month's episode Jade and Mia talk about their favourite recent reads and our recent webinar. They also discuss the most interesting news from this month that have piqued their interest and their favourite new titles. Safdar Ahmed, Scott McCloud, Raina Telgemeier, and Mike Barry's Action Tank and more get lots of love. Mia also talks about her love of Teen Titans and declares Raven to be th...

In this creator chat we host Josh Santospirito, a multimedia artist, musician and comics creator. His previous two graphic novels are The Long Weekend in Alice Springs and Swallows. He has just recently published a beautiful graphic novel The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors, published by Scribe. Make sure you buy it for your library, it’s an absolute must have for all Australian libraries. For...

In this month's roundup Rebecca and Marissa discuss Pride Month graphic novel lists, essential manga, their favourite picks from this month's new lot of graphic novels (which include a few titles by Australian creators) and their favourite recent reads. For the full roundup with all the news and resources please visit our website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

In this month's roundup Gabby and James discuss: Their recent reads James presenting at ALIA National Recent comic cons at libraries (Comic Gong, Dandy Con, King Con) More on recent attempts at bans in Australia Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier's new graphic novel: Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding Graphic novel sales in Australia are booming The Graphic Medicine International Collective's shor...