Tag Archive | "reading"

Matilda and the wonder of books

Friday, March 11, 2011

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Aaron Renier’s strip for the Unshelved site is an absolute delight for all of us who cherish the power of reading (especially for younger minds), the physically printed book and those remarkable palaces that are such an indicator of a truly civilised society, the public library. As ever more ill-considered budget cuts threaten our libraries [...]

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Hey, lazy cartoonist, leave those kids alone!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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Jamie Smart gets hot under the collar over lazy creators who assume because they are making something aimed at children they can get away with putting in less effort: “The issue for me boils down to this – just because your audience is children, doesn’t mean they’ll accept any old crap. Some comics are written [...]

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Science Fiction fun at Oxfam in Reading

Monday, January 31, 2011

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Steve at the Oxfam charity bookstore in Reading tells us that they are going to be holding a science fiction spectacular from the 10th to the 24th of March, in conjunction with some other SF and comics stores in the area. Acclaimed author Brian Stableford did an event with that fine chap Dave Langford in [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Get them to read (comics)

Monday, October 11, 2010

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In this day and age, it would seem, literacy is the number one item on the agenda when it comes to education.  Not just the technical ability to read, but also the sheer fun of reading, and the ability to gather knowledge and experience from it, seem to be under constant threat from television, videogames [...]

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Dean Haspiel reading from the Activate Primer

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Enjoy some video of the recent Activate Primer event at the Book Court with Dean Haspiel reading live (along with Joan Reilly and George O’Connor) from Billy Dogma with comics art being projected behind him (via Dean’s FaceBook):

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