Michael D Hamersky On Comics Suggests You Attend... The 'Read Comics In Public Day' Event Near You! Which Runs On Sunday, August 28th of 2011 Internationally! -  Far Top Left Photo:  Adam West (Batman) and Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) reading Detective Comics #359 (The Debut of Batgirl in Comics!) in 'public' (publicity shot) back in 1966! - Above Photo: The 2011 Read Comics In Public poster for Local Comic Book Shops to download and print off for the event!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3493:

Yesterday I was 'invited' by LCBS owner Randy Myers, to attend the 'Read A Comic In Public Day' event at Collectors Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, via the Facebook event page for that event.  (As seen here!)

I had to decline as I am on the West Coast, and wondered if there were any of these 'Read A Comic In Public Day' events closer to me in the San Diego Metro Area...

I found that there actually was one, at this Facebook event page, '2nd Annual Read Comics In Public Day - San Diego' sponsored by Chriss Cornish.  It is being held on Sunday, August 28th from 11:00am - 3:00pm at the Starbucks on the corner of Balboa and Genesse (4227 Genesee Ave) in San Diego.

Here is more info taken from the Facebook event page that Chriss posted:

NOTE: Different location from last year!

August 28 is international Read Comics in Public Day (RCPD). The first was held last year. 

Some of us San Diego sequential art lovers gathered at the Starbucks by Mysterious Galaxy, in the Clairemont neighborhood. This year we'll instead by at the Starbucks at corner of Balboa and Genesse.

We'll be meeting up outside at the tables so that those with budgets that don't stretch to venti lattes can still participate without feeling self conscious.

___WHAT IS RCPD?___
Read Comics in Public Day was founded in 2010 by Brian Heater and The Daily Crosshatch. It began as a joke; something about Heater reading novels on the train because it’s too embarrassing to read comics. His fellow Daily Crosshatch editor Sarah Morean had the idea to take the joke to nobler heights. And thus we have Read Comics in Public Day.

LINKS
www.readcomicsinpublic.com

THE GOAL
Be seen reading comics in public.

Step 1: get some comic books, graphic novels, or other works of sequential art

Step 2: go somewhere public

Step 3: read the comics

Step 4: have someone take photos and upload them to your Flikr account after joining the RCPD group

Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired

____THE PLAN, STAN____
On Sunday, August 28, we will congregate at the Starbucks at the corner of Balboa and Genessee (San Diego, CA)

We'll start at 11:00am and go to around 3:00pm, or whenever.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED
* Comics and/or graphic novels. Please bring some to share if possible - it's a great opportunity to introduce fellow comic lovers to new titles. And not everyone has the budget to have something new to read.

- What about digital comics?
 The goal of RCPD is to be SEEN reading comics, in public, by strangers. If the public can not tell you are reading a comic than we don't really achieve that goal. 

THAT SAID, if you have some way to make it very obvious you are reading a comic on your digital device (short of announcing, "oh, I am enjoying this digital comic" every two minutes) than it's all good. Otherwise, let's stick to the always obvious traditional printed format.

There are also other locations internationally that are being shown with Facebook event pages, including:

Bakersfield, California

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Frankfurt, Germany

Berlin, Germany

There are other events that don't seem to have Facebook event pages, but are being held, including:

Portland, Oregon - Perth, Australia -  Roanoke, Virgina - Overland Park, KS - and others...

You can see more of those and other news of this event at the main web site here: International Read Comics In Public Day  

Additionally, here is the origin of 'Read Comics In Public Day' from the web site by Brian Heater & Sarah Morean:

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