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I bet nobody can guess what I plan to start reading this weekend!
Does it have a chin?
This has a chin. Might it be related somehow?
In 2014, Comic-Con International embarked on an ambitious program to create graphic novel book clubs in the San Diego Public Library system. Two of the clubs started that year (Downtown and Mission Valley), and two more were added in 2015 (La Jolla and North Park). Earlier this year, a fifth club was added at the Encinitas Public Library, part of the San Diego County Library system, and we’re happy to announce the addition of a sixth official Comic-Con International Graphic Novel Book Club at the Escondido Public Library, beginning in October!We are currently accepting membership applications for this new group, which will be meeting once a month at the Escondido Public Library, 239 S. Kalmia St., Escondido, CA 92025. You must fill out a membership application to be considered for this new club. You can download the official membership application by clicking here, but please keep in mind the following guidelines:Members must be 18 years of age or olderMembers must have a Comic-Con Member IDMembers are responsible for obtaining their own books for each monthly meeting, either in print or digital versions or borrowed from a local libraryPlease submit the application form to us at [email protected] by Monday, October 1 for consideration for membership in the club. Membership is limited to 20 people. If accepted, you will receive a confirmation email from us with details on the first meeting.Want to see what we’ve been reading? During the first 3 years (2014—2016), the Graphic Novel Book Clubs have read over 75 books! Click here to download our complete Reading List, which lists all the books the various clubs have read over that time period.
Bruce Campbell, a Comic-Con favorite for his role as Ash in the "Evil Dead" movies and Starz show, will be at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore 7 p.m., Thursday to sign his new book, "Hail to the Chin."As Ash, Bruce Campbell has been fighting off deadites for decades with a chainsaw hand and a smart-alecky attitude. At conventions he comes across as the coolest of the cool cult heroes paying reverence to no one and to nothing.So it may come as a bit of a surprise to discover in his first book "If Chins Could Kill" and his latest book "Hail to the Chin," that what may define him most is that he's a hard working actor with an old school sense of professionalism and respect for the craft even if you are working in B movies."But there is that ridiculous, inescapable difference between the persona and the actual person and hopefully if anything that’s what books can do is round out that image a little bit," Campbell said. "I just like wearing dumb outfits and going to conventions and this stuff gives me the excuse to do that. For some reason I do pretend like I don’t take any of it seriously and there’s a lot of it that I don’t take seriously but I actually do take the craft seriously. Like being a good bricklayer. I think you should take pride if you are a craftsman, you should take pride in being a good craftsman so I guess I do take that seriously. There is always going to be a difference between the onscreen schmo and the guy who runs around on his property."It's been 15 years since his first book and Campbell decided that enough had happened in his life to merit a second one."The industry has changed a lot," Campbell said. "The B movies that I have championed for a long time seem to be very prevalent now in that all the A movies are B movies. If you are bitten by a radioactive spider that’s a 1950s B movie. So I feel vindicated now. Hollywood has just caught up with my visionary thinking."Campbell’s books contain entertaining anecdotes as well as with insights into how the industry works.For all of you "Ash Vs. Evil Dead" fans, this book will have to satisfy your need for a Campbell fix because the premiere of the show's third season has been postponed from this month to February.
In 2014, Comic-Con International embarked on an ambitious program to create graphic novel book clubs in the San Diego area. Two of the clubs started that year (Downtown and Mission Valley), and two more were added in 2015 (La Jolla and North Park), all four part of the San Diego Public Library system. In 2017 we added a fifth club at the Encinitas Public Library, part of the San Diego County Library system, and a sixth club at the Escondido Public Library. Now we start off 2018 with a bang, adding a new club in Balboa Park at the site of the future Comic-Con Center for Popular Culture, the former Hall of Champions building!We are currently accepting membership applications for this new group, which will be meeting once a month at the Balboa Park location. You must fill out a membership application to be considered for this new club. You can download the official interest form by clicking here, but please keep in mind the following:Members must be 18 years of age or olderMembers must have a Comic-Con Member IDMembers are responsible for obtaining their own books for each monthly meeting, either in print or digital versions or borrowed from a local libraryMembers should live in the greater San Diego areaPlease submit the application form to us at [email protected] by Wednesday, January 31 for consideration of membership in the club. Membership is limited to 20 people. If accepted, you will receive a confirmation email from us with details of the first meeting.Want to see what we’ve been reading? During the first 3 years (2014—2016), the Graphic Novel Book Clubs have read over 75 books! Click here to download our complete Reading List, which lists all the books the various clubs have read over that time period.Comic-Con International: San Diego is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular artforms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.
I really enjoyed this book. It's probably the best time travel book I have ever read. It has the best technical explanation of time travel I have ever read. I mean most time travel books , TV shows and movies gloss over the technical details. They never take into account the movement of the earth around the sun , the sun around the galaxy ... etc.