Banned Books Week and the Rex Libris Statue
"Give me liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties."
-John Milton, Areopagitica
Page six of Rex Libris #6, schedule for publication in November. Click to see full size. September 23-30 is Banned Books Week, a reminder to all of us that writers' freedom to write and our freedom to read what they write is a right that we must vigilantly defend. It is the 25th anniversary of this American Library Association event.
Librarians are not only defenders of intellectual freedom; they also have proven to be unshakable when it comes to defending their patrons' civil liberties. As a recent article in The Nation states, "Courage, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. And in an era of increasing controls on the gathering and dissemination of information, many Americans are unaware of the courageous stands librarians take every day."
Hmm. I'm going to use this as a tie-in to our the Rex Libris statue that we now have in stock and available for order in our webstore, but I'm almost hesitant to do so because I don't want it to seem as if I am using Banned Books Week for purposes of profit. But in any case, the Rex Libris statue is available for order. I know a lot of you who, like us, think librarians deserve a superhero of their own have been waiting for it.
James Turner's Rex Libris is a comic that pays homage to the all courageous librarians out there. Even if they don't travel to other galaxies to retrieve overdue books or save patrons who have unwittingly been sucked into the Book of Monsters (in the new Rex Libris story arc starting with issue six--check out the new, shaded art style), they're still tough-as-nails defenders of knowledge. In my book (oh boy can I get any cheesier), that's what a hero is the real world. (I can!)
-John Milton, Areopagitica
Page six of Rex Libris #6, schedule for publication in November. Click to see full size. September 23-30 is Banned Books Week, a reminder to all of us that writers' freedom to write and our freedom to read what they write is a right that we must vigilantly defend. It is the 25th anniversary of this American Library Association event.
Librarians are not only defenders of intellectual freedom; they also have proven to be unshakable when it comes to defending their patrons' civil liberties. As a recent article in The Nation states, "Courage, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. And in an era of increasing controls on the gathering and dissemination of information, many Americans are unaware of the courageous stands librarians take every day."
Hmm. I'm going to use this as a tie-in to our the Rex Libris statue that we now have in stock and available for order in our webstore, but I'm almost hesitant to do so because I don't want it to seem as if I am using Banned Books Week for purposes of profit. But in any case, the Rex Libris statue is available for order. I know a lot of you who, like us, think librarians deserve a superhero of their own have been waiting for it.
James Turner's Rex Libris is a comic that pays homage to the all courageous librarians out there. Even if they don't travel to other galaxies to retrieve overdue books or save patrons who have unwittingly been sucked into the Book of Monsters (in the new Rex Libris story arc starting with issue six--check out the new, shaded art style), they're still tough-as-nails defenders of knowledge. In my book (oh boy can I get any cheesier), that's what a hero is the real world. (I can!)