current pedagogies and suggest a framework and ideology that they feel must embrace change and the social role of libraries in an international context. Interdisciplinary approaches, a changed service model and an evaluation of the social role of librarians and the impact on communities are suggested in a very short final chapter. The indexing is adequate and the bibliography extensive, although references and quotes throughout the work often appear gratuitous and out of place. Given the shortcomings detailed above, this work is recommended only for those keeping complete collections on LIS education.

Girls and their comics: Finding a female voice in comic book narrative

Globalizing manga: from Japan to Hong Kong and beyond

Introduction Smoking continues to extract an unacceptably high toll in Ireland in terms of both mortality and morbidity. Therefore, attention needs to focus on examining pro-smoking influences on teenagers and young adults, as most smokers start smoking before the age of 21 years. Given that this critical period is one of identity formation and assertion of adulthood, it is useful to look at media representation of smoking. One form of increasingly pervasive media that may require further examination is that of the portrayal of smoking in graphic novels. The broad appeal of graphic novels has been well noted, particularly to those aged under 35 years. Methods This research examined a random selection of ten graphic novels chosen from the main library in a provincial Irish City. The novels were examined on a panel-by-panel basis for images of smokers. Smokers were coded by gender. Results Analysis identified a total of 526 panels depicting smoking. Substantial variation was noted in the number of smoking images between novels, varying from 0 to 267. A dramatic difference in the number of male to female smokers was observed, the ratio being approximately 17:1. Conclusions Graphic novels must be considered as a potentially significant source of portrayals of smoking to adolescent and young adult readers of this form of literature.

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An examination of portrayals of smoking in graphic novels/comic books: A picture is worth a thousand words

You asked me once,’ said O’Brien, ‘what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world...The worst thing in the world,^ said O’Brien, Bvaries from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by implement, or fifty other deaths. There are cases where it is some quite trivial thing, not even fatal.^[1]

Room 101: are gender-specific cigarette packets the way forward?

The second World War had various repercussions in the comics produced in the 25 years after the Liberation in France and Belgium: one remarkable consequence was the construction, in comics as La Bete est morte ! and Asterix, of a fictive French ethnicity which was eagerly contrasted to the stereotype of the militaristic Prussian. Despite a few comics demonstrated the positive effects of reconciliation with former enemies or of European cooperation, most comics rather clung to older stereotypes of other European people. These popular culture products offered a particular - but not always consistent - view on national identities in the post-war period

Daisy Houghton

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An examination of portrayals of smoking in graphic novels/comic books: A picture is worth a thousand words

EU anti-smoking graphic warnings on cigarette packets: semiotics and the issue of gender under-representation.