Presentation given at Youth Libraries Group Day School at Exeter, June 1st 2009. Feel free to mail carl.cross@derbyshire.gov.uk for more information.

1. Heanor Library Manga Maniacs What we did, what we plan to do, what you could do too Carl Cross Children’s Librarian

2. Akira – Shonen Jump (1980-1990)

3. Crude Stories, Crudely Drawn. Janet’s Guide to manga and anime

4. Peter Dickinson Nobody who has not spent a whole sunny afternoon under his bed rereading a pile of comics left over from the previous holidays has any real idea of the meaning of intellectual freedom.

5. Definitions manga = comics anime = cartoons

6. ...and some more Manga-ka = artist/writer Manwha= Korean Comics ottaku=fan OVA = original video animation

8. www.lilformers.com

9. Dramacon by Svetlana Chmakova

11. Mighty World of Marvel Manga? Or Merely Mediocre?

12. Kodomo – Children’s Comics Yotsuba! By Kiyohiko Azuma

13. Counter Play by Natalie Mann Shojo – Girl’s Comics

14. Shonen – Boy’s Comics Air Gear by Oh! Great

15. Josei or Redikomi - Comics for Young Women Angel Nest by Erica Sakurazawa

16. Seinen – Men’s Comics Arm of Kannon by Masakazu Yamaguichi

17. Hentai – And how to avoid it!

18. Sarai by Masahiro Shibata

19. Negima by Ken Akamatsu

20. Battle Vixens by Yuji Shiozaki

21. Donald McGill Postcard

22. Donald McGill Postcard Age Ratings Explained

27. Which age rating?

28. What we did

29. Manga Masterclass Jin Son Oh April 2006

30. Manga Masterclass Jin Son Oh April 2006 Manga Masterclass Jin Son Oh April 2006

31. Manga Masterclass Jin Son Oh April 2006

32. Graphic Novel Reading Group April 2006

33. Manga Maniacs July 2006 Poster Designed by Danielle and Ryan

34. First Annual Christmas Con December 2006

35. Annual Christmas Con First edition of Emaki April 2007

36. Annual Christmas Con We become Nakama! 2008

37. Scaring small children at the Big Book Bash 2008

38. Yarn – A Documentary By Rod Duncan 2008

39. An Ottaku Afternoon March 2009

40. How you can do it too

41. Cos Play Competitions

42. Cos Play Competitions

43. Learn Japanese Sgt. Frog teaches you Japanese

44. Learn Japanese

45. Create your own manga

46. Manga Cool Wall

47. Anime Film Nites

48. YouTube, Fansubbing and Scanlation

49. Before Scanlation

50. ...and after

51. Published in Japanese in Shonen Sunday in 2007

52. To be published in English in August 2009

53. Finding out what's hot and what's not

54. Webcomics 20 Galaxies by Cerulean Lee Webcomics Webcomics

55. Videogames

56. Exploring Japanese Culture

57. Exploring Japanese Culture

58. Exploring Japanese Culture

59. Staff's Holiday Snaps

60. And even just talking about the comics

61. ではた。 Dewa Mata (See you later!) Email: [email_address] Twitter: carldjcross Facebook: [email_address] Slideshare: carldjcross