Welcome to Unshelved, the world's only daily comic strip set in a public library! Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real-life librarian) and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes have been publishing since February 16, 2002. Some of the stories are made up, some of them are based on real life, and some are absolutely true stories sent to us from our readers. And the stranger the story, the more likely it is to be true.

Unshelved

Comics & Graphic Novels

Barnes, Bill

Ambaum, Gene

Comic Strips

Overdue Media

Dewey and his fellow librarians confront the FBI, psychic fairs, poetry slams, crashed hard drives, identity theft, and of course each other. Features introduction by librarian, bestselling author, and action figure model Nancy Pearl plus pages of never-before-published comics.

What Would Dewey Do?: An Unshelved Collection

What's so funny about a library? Just about everything, as you'll find out in Library Mascot Cage Match, the third Unshelved collection. 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," LMCM features the all-new full-color graphic novelette Empire County Strikes Back. Can Mallville's librarians defeat the mother of all bookmobiles?

Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection

Literature & Fiction

What happens in the library stays in the library. But oh, what happens in the library! Dewey has a book club, and you do not talk about Book Club. Colleen has a blog, but she doesn't know everyone can read it. Someone gave vegan Tamara a membership to the ham-of-the-month-club. And Merv reserved every copy of the new Harry Potter for purposes nefarious. This fourth Unshelved collection also features dozens of full-page full-color comic-format book talks, plus a very special storytime zombie nursery rhyme.

Unshelved Volume 4: Book Club

Read Responsibly is the biggest, funniest, and most colorful Unshelved collection yet! The fifth year of strips includes the famous ""Pimp My Bookcart"" sequence and a year's worth of full-color full-page ""Unshelved Book Clubs"" featuring the greatest books every written. Plus, never-before published strips and more!

Read Responsibly: An Unshelved Collection

Bill Barnes

Gene Ambaum

No one gets asked questions more frequently than a librarian, and no librarian answers them with more attitude than Dewey! The latest Unshelved collection features a year's worth of daily comics and Conference Tips, plus the full-color Unshelved Book Club. Also features the Great Plastic Coffee Cup Lid Challenge between Unshelved and Sheldon, refereed by comics journalist Gary Tyrrell.

Unshelved Volume 6: Frequently Asked Questions (An Unshelved Collection)

What do you get when you mix adults, teenagers, children, babies, seniors, professionals, parents, teachers, students, homeschoolers, and the homeless? That very funniest of places, your local public library, home of the hugely popular Web comic Unshelved.

Large Print: an Unshelved collection

Upgrade Path: a Not Invented Here collection

The library: the final frontier. These are the adventures of the staff of Mallville Public. Their never ending mission: to deal with strange new behaviors, to seek out new books and new donations, to boldly know that the policies they’re about to re-implement have never been successful before. This, the 11th Unshelved collection and the first in full-color, reprints comic strips originally published from April 1, 2013, to September 25, 2014, plus "Conference Tips" that appeared in ALA CogNotes newspapers in 2013 and 2014. Gene Ambaum went to school to be a librarian. Bill didn't, but he’s been creating Unshelved with Gene for so long he’s now a librarian-by-contact. They’ve been writing about the staff and patrons of the Mallville Public Library for 13 years. Follow all of their ongoing adventures at unshelved.com.

Reads Well With Others: an Unshelved collection

Overdue: The Final Unshelved Collection

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