A couple of us from the Edinburgh SF Book Group have decided to form an offshoot to focus on graphic novels starting in January. The format will be similar to the SF Book Group, with a meeting once a month for roughly an hour in a cafe bar in the city to discuss a particular work. Graphic novels have been covered a handful of times in the SF Book Group, but we decided the start of a New Year seemed a good time to try a meeting just for comics and see if there is enough interest to sustain it.
The first meeting will be on Tuesday 16th of January in the Biblos cafe-bar on the corner of Southbridge and Chambers Street (nice and close to the Edinburgh FPI) from 6 to 7pm and the book under discussion will be Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon’s Pride of Baghdad (one of my favourite books of the year). Everyone is welcome to come along, be they old comics hands or newcomers – actually I think Pride is a graphic novel which is very accessible for the non-comics reader to start out on, so go on, give it a bash. We’ll pick out titles for the first couple of meetings, but the idea is if enough people come along we will follow our book club model where the regulars each get a month to pick a book. Details are on the Coffee and Comics blog, or you can drop me a line. Hmmm, Coffee and Comics – is it just me, or does that sound like the title of an Indy movie, shot in grainy black and white?
On the book front the January meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will be on Tuesday 30th of January from 6 to 7pm in Henderson’s on Hanover Street in the city’s New Town. The book choice for January will be Bob Heinlein’s classic man versus superbug tale, Starship Troopers. If any of our readers are running a book or comics discussion group, feel free to drop me a line and I’ll mention it here.
Wed, Dec 20, 2006
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