Thousands of digital comics, manga, and picture books for readers of all ages.
Your annual subscription to Comics Plus® includes digital access for every patron on desktop, mobile, or tablet. Every title is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for offline reading, with unlimited, simultaneous checkout to maximize circulation through book clubs, community reading programs, and other engaging initiatives.
- Unlimited, simultaneous access to a diverse collection of comics, manga, and picture books.
- Expand readers’ advisory and programming without increasing materials budget.
- Admin tools to help align your collection(s) to your library’s collection development policy.
Verdict: Comics Plus is an excellent resource to build and expand both sequential art collections and public awareness of the format’s diversity and appeal. The content is broad, deep, rich, and nuanced and offers high-interest options for dedicated and novice comics readers alike.
—Library Journal [FULL REVIEW]
Comics Plus Libraries
Children’s Public Library (Ages 3-10)
- Readers: Beginning and emergent readers in pre-K to early elementary school; active readers in upper elementary and middle school; reluctant and remedial readers of all ages.
- Formats: Picture books and early readers to traditional comic books, manga, and comic strips.
- Key Titles: Avatar: The Last Airbender; Awkward; Big Nate; Bone; Chi’s Sweet Home; Dance Class; Disney (Various); Geronimo Stilton; Minecraft; My Little Pony; Peanuts; Quince; Really Bird; Sheets; The Sisters; Sonic the Hedgehog; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Yotsuba&!
- Key Publishers: ABDO; Andrews McMeel; Apples & Honey Press; Astra / TOON Books; Capstone; Cartoon Books; Cherry Lake; Dark Horse; Dynamite; Europe Comics; Fantagraphics; Frederator Books; Immedium; Kodansha; Lerner; Oni Press; Papercutz; Pop Culture Classroom; Red Comet Press; Rosen Publishing; S.T.E.M. Curiosity, Inc.; Saddleback Educational; Tokyopop; Yen Press
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Teen Public Library (Ages 8-18)
- Readers: Active readers in middle and high school; reluctant and remedial readers of all ages.
- Formats: Traditional comic books, graphic novels, manga, and comic strips.
- Key Titles: Adventure Time; Attack on Titan; Avatar: The Last Airbender; Battle Angel Alita; Bone; Disney Manga; Dramacon; Fairy Tail; Hellboy; Hip Hop Family Tree; Invincible; Locke & Key; Lumberjanes; Quince; The Sisters; Stranger Things; Street Fighter; Sword Art Online; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; The Umbrella Academy; Yotsuba&!
- Key Publishers: ABLAZE, Archie Comics, Andrews McMeel, Cartoon Books, Classics Illustrated, Dark Horse, Europe Comics, Fanbase Press, Kodansha, Lerner, Manga Classics, Oni Press, Papercutz, Saturday AM, Scout Comics, TKO Studios, Tokypop, UDON Entertainment, Valiant, Yen Press, Zuiker Press
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All-Access for Public Libraries
- Everything in the Children’s and Teen Public Library collections, plus…
- Key Titles — Nonfiction: Colored; Crude; Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid; Gender Queer; Hakim’s Odyssey; Hip Hop Family Tree; Lighter Than My Shadow; Moebius Library (Parts 1 – 3); Palestine; Swallow Me Whole; They Called Us Enemy; To Afghanistan and Back
- Key Titles — Fiction: The Boys; Essex County; From Hell; Hellboy; The Incal; Invincible; Invisible Kingdom; Locke & Key; Love & Rockets; Métal Hurlant; Monsters; Saga; Sex Criminals; Sentient; The Walking Dead
- Key Titles — Manga: Attack on Titan; Battle Angel Alita; Berserk; Blade of the Immortal; Delicious in Dungeon; Dementia 21; Fairy Tail; Kill la Kill; Lone Wolf & Cub; Love Hina; Manga Classics; Mob Psycho 100; Neon Genesis Evangelion; Peach Girl; Street Fighter; Sword Art Online; Tokyo Tarareba Girls; Usagi Yojimbo
- Key Publishers: Andrews McMeel, Archie Comics, BOOM! Studios, Cartoon Books, Classics Illustrated, Dark Horse, Dynamite, Europe Comics, Fanbase Press, Fantagraphics, Graphic Mundi, Humanoids, Image, Kodansha, Manga Classics, NBM, Oni Press, Papercutz, Saturday AM, Scout Comics, TKO Presents, Tokyopop, UDON Entertainment, Valiant, Yen Press, Zuiker Press
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Library-Friendly Publishers
