Joel orff biography
Joel Orff: Joel’s first book Strum and Drang: Great Moments in Rock ‘n’ Roll was nominated for the YALSA Booklist.!
Mass Appeal | Graphic Novels Spotlight 2019
Comic books—long scorned by highbrow readers, banned from library summer reading programs, and generally hidden away among more serious-looking works—are in the midst of a heyday.
Follow Joel Orff and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Joel Orff Author Page.
As reported in LJ’s 2018 Graphic Novel survey (LJ 12/18; ow.ly/f2xM30oJQZm), to which 400 public librarians throughout the country and Canada responded, nearly two-thirds of the libraries sampled experienced an overall increase in graphic novel circulation in 2018, with 13 percent stating that print circulation spiked significantly.
While 96 percent of respondents said they carry superhero titles in print and 88 percent in digital, general fiction trailed close behind at 92 percent and 81 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, nonfiction is a rising force.
Sales are also skyrocketing.
According to a recent joint report by ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller, comics and graphic novel sales in the United States and Canada reached an astoundi