The Ballard Library is launching a Manga Club for middle school-aged students and older and they want help planning it. Manga is a Japanese style of comics and cartoons and the club will focus specifically on this art. Help plan the new club this Saturday, February 5th, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Ballard Library (5614 22nd Ave NW) study room C. Everyone is welcome, there is no registration and the event is free. Regular meetings of the Manga Club will start on March 5th after mid-winter break.
Ballard library launching Manga Club
Yes, because reading books without pictures as an adult is sooooo 18th century.
So much for adults leading by example. What’s next, a ‘pot and unprotected sex’ club, because, hey, kids can relate to that and really prefer them!
Who needs standards anymore….
But, Storm, they’re not holding this club on your lawn!
Oh, wait… funny, the first time I read your comment I thought it just said “get off my lawn!”
Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrds.
Those new comic book things are the devil’s making. Just like that rock and roll music.
Wake up from your 60-year nap.
Studying the Classics is why I can afford to yell ‘get off my lawn’. Encouraging kids to read cartoons will keep them in a permanent state of easily distracted infantilism unable to take on serious challenges. It’s like letting your 4 year old wear a diaper because ‘it’ easier for them’.
I have no problem with kids reading this stuff on their own time, but for an institution like a library or school to do this it is yet another sign of lazy grown ups giving up and letting kids get what they want. It’s laziness on the part of adults and parents.
Instead we’ll get another generation of indulged children always wanting and getting the easy way out.
Ignore the content they are studying for second and simply see the goal of the club. The Library is encouraging kids to meet with their peers and discuss the works they’re reading. If not just for enjoyment’s sake, wouldn’t that be a valuable, fundamental exercise for future scholars? And if these kids come to the library on a regular basis, and they find it’s a welcoming, comfoartable place for them to visit, maybe a few will try reading works of greater difficulty.
It’s a club, not a class. It’s elective. I don’t see why the kids who would want to do this on their own time should be discouraged.
Ignore him. He took kickbacks in exchange for the establishment of this club. All selected reading materials will be printed in 24-karat gold ink.
I don’t know if art is still taught in public schools and I think this is a fine idea regardless. Have fun, kids!!
Yes, ‘art’ with scantily clad, large breasted, doe-eyed pre-pubescent intergallactic space girls being chased by pyschic Emo nerds and their 6 legged dogs.
I guess a Shakespeare Club at the library would be ‘unhip’.
Kids don’t use the adjective “hip” or “unhip.” If you’re going to pretend to know the thing you’re railing against, at least get the language right.
I beg to differ re: the Shakespeare Club. It would probably be successful, especially if it’s lead by someone like you — one who has such respect for and command of the material. Perhaps you should organize one. After all, the library is also your community space to use.