I wanted to mention that the day before our next meeting, Wednesday, September 8, will be the very first gathering of the new Manga Comic Book Club I was asked to organize for the Crow Collection of Asian Art. You all are invited, and this group will meet less regularly than our own group. Running in “series,” the Manga Comic Book Club will meet in four-month intervals as a season. The first is this fall, meeting the second Wednesday of each month, and we will be spending the entire season reading all eight volumes of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha (the first volume of which we read way back when in the Dallas Comic Book Club when it was still at the DMA). If you have been pining to read the whole series, you might want to come out. We’re reading two books for each month, so the first meeting next week covers Volume 1: Kapilavastu and Volume 2: The Four Encounters. More details can be found at the Crow site: http://www.crowcollection.org/event_view.aspx?eventID=4914&returnUrl=calendar.aspx%3Fdate%3D9%2F1%2F2010

I hope your summer’s have wrapped up nicely. We had a great time last month discussing the Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis and I am greatly looking forward to this month’s discussion of Solanin by Asano Inio. I’m really excited to talk about this book! We will next meet on Thursday, September 9 at 7:30 pm at the Half-Price Books on Northwest Hwy (5803 E. NW Hwy., Dallas). As is our norm now, please proceed directly to the Community Room at the back of the store for the discussion.

Good News, Everyone!

Take a break from these dog-days of summer and join us for the next
Comic Book Club on Thursday, August 12, beginning at 7:30 pm at the
Half-Price Books on Northwest Highway (5803 E. Northwest Hwy., Dallas,
TX). This month we will be discussing The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover
Crisis, and I look forward to our discussion of this hilarious
pastiche on comic continuity and crossover extravaganzas in light of
the recent return of Futurama to the TV airwaves (do they even travel
by airwaves anymore?).

A little late on my notice this month – sorry, all. The next Comic Book Club is this Thursday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. We will be meeting again at the large Half Price Books on Northwest Hwy (here is a link to the store information on the HFP site: http://www.halfpricebooks.com/001.html), and let’s plan to congregate at the benches just inside the entrance (the main entrance, not the one going directly into the coffee shop). It was a great place to meet last month, and there are a plethora of places for us to sit and gab in case the back room is being used.

This month we will be discussing the Tintin story Cigars of the Pharoah, a rollicking good adventure of everyone’s favorite Belgian boy reporter. It is by Hergé and available either as a thin stand-alone volume (in larger album format) or within the first volume of the hardback 3-in-1 editions (sandwiched between Tintin in America and The Blue Lotus).

We had a great time last month with a bunch of good suggestions for future titles to read. I have put together a few for the rest of the year. Let me know what you think!

June 11: Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales
July 9: Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
August 13: Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (Book 1) by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III
September 10: Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
October 8: Mystery Play by Grant Morrison and Jon J. Muth
November 12: Madman: Volume 1 by Mike Allred
December 10: Castle Waiting (Book 1) by Linda Medley

See you all on Thursday!
[Posted by Josh Rose]