Well that was a pleasant surprise. I thought NBM was only shipping a new printing of Rick Geary’s The Borden Tragedy, but a copy of the paperback version of The Case of Madeleine Smith showed up in my reserves yesterday. New installments of A Treasury of Victorian Murder are always gratefully accepted.
Speaking of the accused Glaswegian, she’s made her way onto the list of nominees for the American Library Association’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens. (Yes, I’m still obsessively tracking those. Thanks for asking.) Nominations are now closed with a projected drop date for the final list in mid-winter of 2007.
It’s a little hard to tell what joined the list when, but accounting for my shaky memory, recent additions include:
- Action Philosophers: Giant-Sized Thing #1 (Evil Twin)
- American Born Chinese (First Second)
- Brownsville (NBBComics Lit)
- Chocalat (Ice Kunion)
- Crossroad (Go! Comi)
- Fables: 1,001 Nights of Snowfall (Vertigo)
- Infinite Crisis (DC)
- Inverloch (Seven Seas)
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Dark Horse)
- Livewires: Clockwork Thugs, Yo! (Marvel)
- Pride of Baghdad (Vertigo)
- Same Cell Organism (DMP)
- To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel (Simon and Schuster)
- Young Avengers Vol. 2: Family Matters (Marvel)
I hope the nomination list is still available after the final roster is chosen, because there are some great books on it. But barring some bizarre failure of decision-making, it’s hard to see how the final list could be anything but excellent.
(Edited to note: If I missed anything new to the nominations, let me know, and I’ll add it to the list.)