David S. Serchay is a youth services librarian for the Broward County Library System in South Florida, where he is on the graphic novel selection committee. He has been reading comic books all of his life and has a personal collection of over 25,000 comics and graphic novels. He is the author of The Librarian's Guide to Graphic Novels for Children and Tweens and the upcoming companion volume The Librarian's Guide to Graphic Novels for Adults. He has previously written about the subject in a chapter for Thinking Outside the Book and for Library Journal, Serials Review, Florida Living, Animato!, and Comics Source. He has also lectured extensively on the subject.