Comics? In San Diego? If you say so.
Where better to read than in the shadow of statue of a famous naked dude? We’ll be meeting up in Fawick Park. Join us!
More giant cherries than you can shake a humungous spoon at. Check out this meetup at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Paisley blouses optional.
I’ve never been to Roanoke, VA, but I’m sure there are plenty of things to do there that don’t suck. Either way, we are officially part of that list. We’re feeling pretty good about that, all things considered.
Hey All,
Don’t forget the Flickr group! So far we’ve got submissions from the Philippines, Spain, Australia, the U.S., and the Czech Republic. Include your name, location, and what you’re reading (if you’re so inclined) in the description.
Hey Twitter Folk, let’s Start the weekend off right by seeing if we can trend our hashtag:
#readcomicsinpublic
Meetup #10: San Diego, CA
Meetup #11: Kissimmee, FL
Meetup #12: Rockingham, VT
The city that gave us the guy who gave us a bunch of paintings of soup cans is the site of meetup #9. Check out the Facebook page for more info.
A bear, a moose, and a beaver walk into a library… We got a note from Jamie S. titled “Alaska on-board,” with this lovely little illustration attached. All comics fans in Fairbanks should meet up at the Noel Wien Public Library, between the hours of 10AM and 5PM. We’ll let you take it from there.
Here’s the Facebook invite.
Here’s a note from comics reader/Dilbert fan, Kentaro T. Pretty great!
I am interested in your saying, “I was too embarrassed to read comics in public”.
In Japan, comics (we call them “manga”, you know) are very popular, so adult people commonly read manga in public.
In the early 1970s, when the japanese college students began reading manga publicly, they were criticized by the previous generations.
But by that time, the kinds of manga had dramatically increased, and many mangas were eagerly accepted by the young people as their own bildungsroman, love stories, art forms, or even political assertions.Their manner of reading manga in public was popularized through 70s.
I remember the foreign people from US or Europian countries satirized us for Reading Comic in Public in 1980s.
We felt pity for them, oh, they didn’t know fertility of the world of manga! (Although we also loved Peanuts.)
But I thought it was a long time ago.
After all, The Dark Knight Returns was born about a quarter-century ago, you have The Alan Moore, and I also love Dilbert.
So I was surprised you still embarrassed to RCiP!Well, I hope your movement will change your world.
Your generation leads younger people to the world of RCiP.
Your English is great, Kentaro! I’m sure that half the people I speak with on a daily basis have no idea what “bildungsroman” means.
