ComicsPlus – an app for graphic novels, manga and comics

Comics Plus offers unlimited, simultaneous access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga from a variety of publishers.

You must create an account to access the comics in this collection.

• If you are using a mobile device or laptop and are on campus, go to our E-Resources page and select Comics Plus (make sure you are on the PEA Secure wifi)
• If you are off campus, you will be prompted to enter your PEA credentials.
• If you don’t have an account, click the Sign Up Now! link.
• Type your exeter.edu email address in the email box. Then choose a unique password.

If you wish to view ComicsPlus on your phone or tablet, download the LibraryPass app. See directions below:

• Use the LibraryPass App to access Comics Plus content on your mobile device. It is available in the Apple App Store as well as Google Play.
• Once downloaded open the app and search for Phillips Exeter Academy. Then enter your exeter.edu email and the password you created.
• To begin using, browse the curated lists on the homepage; or use the search box to look for specific titles and keywords.
• Select the Read Now but to begin reading or add to your shelf to read later. All titles are available for unlimited, simultaneous access. You can also download titles to read offline through the app.

On Wednesday April 3rd, The Class of 1945 Library and the English Department will host a public reading and talk by Rebecca Makkai, author of the widely-read bestseller I Have Some Questions for You and the critically acclaimed work The Great Believers. The event will begin at 7:30pm in Assembly Hall and a book signing will immediately follow.  

About Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai is the author of this year’s New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions For You as well as the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, and the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize among other honors. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Northwestern University, UNR Tahoe, and Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English; and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. She lives in Chicago and Vermont.

Lamont Poet Patrick Rosal

Our Lamont Poetry Series continues in winter term with a reading by Patrick Rosal on January 24th.  Held in Assembly Hall, all Lamont Poet readings begin at 7:30pm and are followed by a book signing. The readings are free and open to the public. 

About Patrick Rosal
Patrick Rosal is the author of five full-length poetry collections including Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, My American Kundiman, Boneshepherds, and Brooklyn Antediluvian. His most recent collection The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems was winner of the William Carlos Williams Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Rosal currently serves as Campus Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden where he is also a Professor of English.  He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Research Scholar program. and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts.