Rex Libris is a science fiction / humor comic book series written and illustrated by James Turner. It was published quarterly from 2005 to 2008 by Slave Labor Graphics.
Thirteen issues were published from August 2005 to October 2008.
A trade paperback, Rex Libris: I, Librarian (ISBN 9781593620624), was published in 2007, collecting the first five issues of the series along with an unpublished short story, âÂÂRex versus the Red Baron!âÂÂ. A second trade paperback, Rex Libris: Book of Monsters (ISBN 9781593621537), was published in 2009 and collects the final eight issues of the series. In 2022, The Big Book of Rex Libris (ISBN 9781593623159) was released as an omnibus edition collecting all stories from the original comic series. All three volumes were published by SLG Publishing.
The series follows the adventures of Rex Libris, the Head Librarian at the Middleton Public Library. Unbeknownst to the general public, Rex is actually over a thousand years old, and was the original librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He is a member of the Ordo Biblioteca, a secret international society of librarians. With the aid of the ancient god Thoth, who lives beneath the Library, Rex travels to the farthest reaches of the universe to collect late book fees, and to fight the powers of ignorance and darkness.
In April 2007, Warner Bros. announced that they had hired Mark Burton to write the script for a film adaptation of Rex Libris. The producer of the film is Mosaic Media. In 2012, Walden Media acquired the rights and hired Ben Zazove to write the script.