Fun Times at the Zone

Today we had a meeting to discuss plans for events in the coming months. I am really excited about our offerings.

For one, we have the writing group which I facilitate on the fourth Saturday morning of each month. The emphasis is on good, interesting writing of any kind, including comic book writing! To expand on this, we are also going to start a drawing group, facilitated by Andy, on the third Saturday morning of each month, starting in February. Similar to the writing group, we will emphasize all sorts of drawing, and will include drawing for comic books. To put the two of these together, in March we are planning to do a 24 hour comic book making marathon, where everyone will leave with a comic book that they created.

We are also planning to hold a comic book discussion group on the second Saturday of the month in the late afternoon, early evening. Andy will facilitate this, but I am also really looking forward to this, so that I can get some good data and information for a series of articles I plan to write on comic books as modern mythology.

We are also talking about having a game night – all sorts of games, including video games, card games, role playing games, board games, etc. Each month we will announce a new game, or maybe more than one. I am tentatively scheduling them for the first Saturday evening of each month, but I’ll keep you posted on this.

I am also researching the feasibility of doing a movie night once a month. That would be so fun!

As usual, we will have guests in the store on a regular basis. We are currently working with Tom Leveen on a book-release party, as his fantasy book will be released in April. Also, beginning conversations with Jeff Mariotte who will be releasing his 5 issue mini-series, Fade to Black, in May. We are conversing with Daniel Davis, who produces a web comic called Monster Commute as well as being the creator of Steam Crow for sometime this spring, and hope to have Diana Gabaldon in once her graphic novel based on the Outlander series is released.

And of course, we will have an ongoing presence at the First Friday Art Walk going forward.

So, stay tuned. There’s never a dull moment with Comic Zone!

categories Comic Zone, Comic Zoning, store | Linda | datetime January 6, 2010 4:23 pm

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