Today is the first annual International Read Comics in Public Day and I nearly missed it. This is the problem with working alone: It's simply impossible to keep abreast of everything.) If you can, be sure to get a picture of yourself, your friends, or anyone else who participates and post it to the International Read Comics in Public Day Flickr group.
The site says the idea is rooted in some joke they can't even remember, but August 28th is also Jack Kirby's birthday, and many agree that he, along with Stan Lee, helped create modern day Comicdom. And all you have to do to participate is read a comic book, graphic novel, or other piece of sequential art, in public. The idea is for people to see you reading comics, thus (hopefully) bolstering the idea that sequential art is a legitimate medium.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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