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Comic Book Club January Meeting: Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
It’s our first Comic Book Club meetup of 2020! For our January meeting we’re discussing Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Eisner nominated fresh take on the classic Hanna Barbera character Snagglepuss. Following this we’re reading Chip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley’s Spider-Man Life Story for our February meetup. Our meetings begin at 6 PM, and we […]
Comic Book Club December Meeting: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
We’re already at the end of the decade, the 2010s are coming to an end as the Ash Ave Comic Book Club soldiers on! We are concluding 2019 with one of the most acclaimed works of comics released in the 21st century, Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth a collection of stories […]
Comic Book Club November Meeting: Hard Tomorrow
Ash Ave Comic Book Club’s November meeting will be a discussion of Eleanor Davis’ latest graphic novel Hard Tomorrow, released in early October by Drawn & Quarterly. We’ll be following this up with another critically acclaimed graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware, which we will be discussing for our […]
Comic Book Club October Meeting: Batman Arkham Asylum
Last month’s anniversary meetup was fantastic, lots of good discussion on the one of the all-time greats, Watchmen, and a new tote bag for the Comic Book Club designed by Kevin Layshock. Kicking off our sixth year, we’ll be discussing Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s Arkham Asylum, and in November we’ll be reading Eleanor Davis’ […]
Comic Book Club Five Year Anniversary: We’re Finally Going to Talk Watchmen!
Wow. We’ve made it through five years of monthly (and often twice monthly) comic book readings and discussions and we arrive at the title that I (half heartedly) swore we would never read: the best known and critically acclaimed graphic novel of all time, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. In addition to our discussion […]