Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection

by Gene Ambaum, Bill Barnes, Eden O'Neill

Book Overview

What's so funny about a library? In addition to a year's worth of comic strips featuring library mascots duking it out and the return of the masked mystery man known only as 'the Shusher', this title... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974035327
• ISBN13: 9780974035321
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Overdue Media
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Unshelved Rocks

The strips where Dewey introduces his grandmother to the young woman who keeps trying to date Dewey are really funny. Although the strips with Dewey and his gambling-addicted grandmother are my personal favorites, I also like the color section on "Empire County Strikes Back" about the competition from the bookmobile. The whole book is entertaining. I have all four Unshelved books and keep at least two on the coffee table.

Another hit from Ambaum and Barnes

The crazy antics at the Mallville Public Library continue apace in the 3rd year of "Unshelved." The characters really continue to grow in this collection, so that the dramatic tension (such as it is in three panels) is interesting, while the workplace humor is so hauntingly familiar. I've heard librarians rave about the humor, but just like you don't need to be an engineer to like Dilbert, the weird patrons and stressed out employees are the same people you meet and interact with every day, regardless of where you work. "Empire County Strikes Back" is a great bonus feature, a full-color mini-comic. In ways that are more reminiscent of 1984 and Dick Cheney than Star Wars, it tells the story of a super-automated bookmobile that threatens to steal all the patrons from Mallville's library. I won't give away the ending, but I will say it would fit well in another sci-fi classic--Star Trek. Buy this book. Heck, buy all four books while these guys remain relatively undiscovered. You can impress all your friends at cocktail parties in 2010 when you say you read "Unshelved" back before they sold out.

Life as we know it

A friend of mine got me to subscribe to the daily email of this strip a while ago and I haven't regreted it a bit. These tales of a very untypical public library crew have me rolling in the aisle. The 800s to be exact!

Not Just for Librarians

I shared my copies of all the Unshelved collection with my 22 year old son and he enjoyed the humor as much as I do. He really liked the references to RPG and movies he likes. Please give these books a try, they are all great!

Another year in a Public Library

Another funny book by the Unshelved crew. These strips are frequently (but not always) based on actual events sent in by Librarians, so they can be eerily familiar. Non-Library staff should also find them amusing - my IT partner enjoys it too Try before you buy by reading the comic's website at: [...] - the whole strip is free online, with the exception of a few specials which are only in the books(like the Empire County novela).