Check out this totally amazing resource from Lambiek, the mac-daddy of European comic shops. The Comiclopedia is a searchable database of more than 9,000 international comic artists that includes both visual and biographic data.
I can imagine lots of uses for this, including checking out a customer recommendation, as a resource for students interested in the medium, and as an educational tool for new booksellers. (Pair it with :01/First Second’s awesome list of the best kids graphic novels, and it’s basically a graphic novel course in a proverbial can.)
Best of all, if you find a hole in their database, let them know, and they’ll update it.
Many thanks to Julie over at Children’s Illustration for bringing this amazing resource to my attention.
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August 27, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Julie
Hey, thanks! Hopefully the link will start working again, or we’ll be redirected to a new address. (It was working a couple of hours ago!)
August 28, 2007 at 1:41 pm
kmclean
I just checked it, and they seem to be live now. I know they do regular maintainance, so it may have been down for that.