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Kids Read Comics at AADL July 7-8: A Brief Look at Saturday

by K.C.

Can’t make it to the San Diego Comic Con this summer? No worries.

Join the fun in downtown Ann Arbor at the Ann Arbor District Library the weekend of July 7-8 for the 2012 KIDS READ COMICS convention, a comics convention - offered at NO admission charge - for comics creators and fans of all ages. This convention is for all “kids” whether 5 or 45!

Saturday, July 7 will be jam packed with fun stuff like voice actor Neil Kaplan reading Winnie the Pooh in multiple voices, puppetbending with Kevin Coppa, turning your life into a comic with Eisner Award winner Raina Telgemeir, creating an Ellie McDoodle/Wimpy kid book, making a mini-comic with Matt Feazell, video game creation via playing Underwater Tomato Ninja, live recording of Comics are Great! podcast, and so much more.

Check the schedule to see how you can visit/shop with 60 cartoonists in Artists Alley, attend the many workshops, and take in Quick Draw sessions.

AADL Summer Game Players – you’ll be able to pick up MULTIPLE Game Codes throughout the two days of this convention!

Comments

Submitted by K.C. on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 4:40pm

AADL Summer Game Players - The game codes offered on Sunday will be different from Saturday.

Submitted by Rin on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 5:35am

I am somewhat tempted to cosplay to this. (I probably won't be able to go, though ;_; )

Morgsush,
The main portion of Kids Read Comics will be at the Downtown Library however on Saturday there will be "Quick Draws" and three workshops close by at 826Michigan. Those workshops are 1:30-2:30 p.m. Turn Your Life into a Comic with Raina Telgemeier (Smile); 3:30-4:30 p.m. Make an Ellie McDoodle/Wimpy Kid Book with Ruth McNally Barshaw; 5:30-6:30 p.m. Writing Panel with awesome comics writers-Jimi Ottaviani, Dan Mishkin, Rob Worley, and Paul Storrie. The Quick Draw (improv cartooning) will be at 11:15-11:45 a.m., 1-1:30 p.m., and 3-3:30 p.m.

Submitted by cherylo on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 10:43pm

I am so sad that my family and I are on vacation out of state this week and will miss this event. Will some of the sessions be recorded and later made available? Obviously that won't work for some kinds of topics.

Cherylo,
A few sessions will be videotaped (e.g. Neil Kaplan's story time). These will be made available on the web site after. Keep an eye on the comics.aadl.org page for updates.

Submitted by imracom on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:22pm

Fun.

Submitted by amelcher on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 11:43pm

I dropped my son off to be a photographer for the event and I asked him to get me the Summer Game Code for the event. He texted me that there were 60+ codes so I went down to get them. I had a blast talking with the artists and checking out their comics. It was such fun I will be going back tomorrow to talk to more of them. I also got many codes. Thank you summer game for enticing me to attend this event.

Submitted by VmT on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 12:57am

I am not all that into comics, but I took my 9 yr old son hoping to spark his interest. He LOVED talking to the artists, looking at the comics, and collecting game codes. And we had a great time spending the day together. Thank you AADL for providing this fun activity!

Submitted by camelsamba on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 12:20pm

I know that the library owns some of the books from these artists (we've borrowed a few of them and I have more on request) - it would be really great if library staff could make a public list of all of them! The "Creators at Kids Read Comics 2012" list or something.

Vordak the Incomprehensible was a really great guy to talk to, very personable for a super villian. :^) My 9 yo came home from the first day, made a mini-comic, then proudly shared it with artists in the alley on Day 2.

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