Unshelved Reviews:
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One of the funniest strips to come along in years! |
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Brian Basset
Creator of the nationally syndicated
comic strips Adam@Home and
Red and Rover |
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Readers who have not yet discovered Unshelved are in for a treat. |
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Kat Kan
Booklist |
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What Would Dewey Do?
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Do not read this book
in a library. You will get
in trouble for laughing out loud. |
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Michael Jantze
Creator of the nationally syndicated
comic strip The Norm |
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About Unshelved
Anything can happen in a public library. In the comic strip Unshelved everything does. This amusement is a daily strip by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum. It features the Mallville Public Library where no one is safe from the ironic comebacks of Dewey. He's a slacker. And a comic-reading Young Adult Librarian.
His coworkers Tamara (idealistic Children's Librarian) and Colleen (cranky old-fashioned Reference Librarian) and beleaguered branch manager Mel are plagued by Dewey. The ever-widening cast includes Buddy the summer reading mascot who wouldn't leave, Merv the teenage non-reader, and Ned the civil libertarian naturalist lawyer.
About the Creators
Gene Ambaum is a working librarian in the Pacific Northwest. After he got one of those fancy library degrees he worked a variety of jobs before returning to his true calling. Bill Barnes is a cartoonist-turned-computer-programmer-turned-cartoonist who once spent nine months cavorting around the USA by RV.
Bill was developing a travel-themed comic strip when his friend Gene started tell him true library stories. They were so much funnier than what he was doing that he proposed they write a library comic strip together. After six months of development ("We can't call him 'Dewey'" - "Yes we can" - "No we can't" - "Yes we can") they released their creation on an unexpecting Internet as Overdue, eventually renamed Unshelved. They have learned that the more bizarre the situation, the more likely that someone will write in saying "that happened to me last week!" These days the best stories come from their readers, who number in the tens of thousands and hail from every state and all continents, (Antarctica excluded).
Unshelved is published by Overdue Media LLC of Seattle, Washington, purveyor of fine library comic strip collections since 2003.
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by Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum
Bind: Paperback
Price: $11.95
Age: Adult
For the first time, readers can get in book form the daily comic strip about libraries that has taken the Internet by storm--the truth about what goes on behind the desk, in the stacks, and between the covers.
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by Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum
Bind: Paperback
Price: $11.95
Age: Adult
Dewey and his fellow librarians confront the FBI, psychic fairs, poetry slams, crashed hard drives, identity theft, and of course each other. Features introduction by librarian, bestselling author, and action figure model Nancy Pearl plus pages of never-before-published comics.
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