“If libraries had been cool enough to carry graphic novels when I was a kid, I never would have had to turn to petty crime to afford my expensive comics habit.”

—Comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan, on hearing that Digests 4–6 of his Runaways series had been chosen for YALSA’s 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens, Comic Book Resources news, Jan. 31. (From the ALA Direct Newsletter email.)