YES! This week’s theme is comic books.
Have you ever seen a comic book? It’s a book where the pages are broken into “panels,” by which I mean little rectangles. Each panel is kind of like its own page.
In comics, the words that characters say appear in speech bubbles coming out of their mouths. Often, comics are about superheroes, but not always.
Here’s a comic about Spider Man.
Comics usually have very exciting covers.
And people in comics say “Pow” a lot.
Don’t ask me why.
The bottom line: comics are awesome. We’re going to spend all week talking about and thinking about comics.
But don’t get too excited. Not yet, anyway. Today’s post will be really short, because today (Saturday, April 5) we are at a comic book show. Which means that we will spend all day in a room full of people who make comic books and people who love comic books. Which means that we will have a chance to take all sorts of pictures of comic books and the people who make them, pictures which we will share with you tomorrow.
The comic book show is called the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts Festival. It’s in New York City. If you and your family happen to live anywhere near New York and enjoy comic books, you might want to consider dropping by. Here is the poster.
And now I am going to sleep, because it is very late at night, and I need to save my energy for tomorrow’s comic book show.
Stay tuned for pictures, stories, and interesting facts and observations about comic books.
If you are looking for something to do in the mean time, may I suggest you make a comic of your own? Making comics gives you a chance to be an author and an illustrator at the same time, which is something we can really get excited about.
Good night! Or good morning. Depending on when you read this.