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San Diego Comic-Con is all about the old and new. It’s hard to escape that, and it was especially driven home for me this year in a couple of wonderful ways.

It started with a simple but great idea --- the $20,000+ Great Graphic Novel Giveaway at this year’s American Library Association annual conference in New Orleans. One library would receive hundreds of hand-selected graphic novels all to become a better resource for this material for patrons in their community, as well as shelving, spinner racks and furniture that included seating and tables to give them a way to display --- and enjoy --- these books. We teamed up with Brodart and Diamond Book Distributors to make it all happen. And the prize value grew and grew as more and more publishers came on board to participate until it was worth more than $25,000. All for one library.