Scholars and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its potential to enrich our exploration of reading in our currently saturated media landscape. This Element is based on seventeen in-depth interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and what they consider a good or bad reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community and material aspects of reading. From these readers, one begins to understand why comics reading is something that young people do not 'grow out of' but an experience that they 'grow with'.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore various concepts of time and temporal dimensions in the context of everyday reading experiences.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses theoretical bricolage that puts existing reading research into conversation with theories of time and temporalities.FindingsThree registers of time in reading are put forward: (1) libraries and books as places that readers return to again and again over time, (2) temporalized reading bodies and (3) everyday reading as a temporalized practice.Research limitations/implicationsUsing lenses of time and temporalities, everyday reading is shown to be central to ways of being in time. Subjectives experiences of time in the context of reading expand the limited ways that time is presented in much Library and Information Science (LIS) reading research.Originality/valueThis paper offers a new conceptual framework for studies of reading and readers in LIS.

Based on Catherine Ross’ findings about avid readers, this study examines the way four comic book readers choose the graphic novels that they read for pleasure. Three major themes emerged from the analysis of the qualitative interviews: the diverse roles of comic book stores; the connection with other media formats; and the accessibility of the format.Fondée sur les données recueillies par Catherine Ross concernant les lecteurs avides, cette étude examine de quelle façon quatre lecteurs de bande dessinées (comic books) choisissent les bande dessinées romanesques (graphic novels) qu'ils désirent lire par plaisir. Trois grands thèmes ressortent de l'analyse des entrevues qualitatives : les divers rôles des détaillants de bandes dessinées, le contact avec d'autres formes médiatiques et l'accessibilité du format.

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