President Woodrow Wilson's Mother's Day Proclamation of May 9, 1914 (Presidential Proclamation 1268)., 05/09/1914 - 05/09/1914 (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives)
The Problem Is Civil Obedience: Howard Zinn 1971/2007
Public reenactment of a speech given by author and activist Howard Zinn at a peace rally in Boston Common on May 5, 1971. Zinn defends the use of civil disobedience to protest the war in Vietnam and calls on Congress to impeach the president and vice president of the United States for the high crime of waging war on the people of Southeast Asia. Matthew Floyd Miller, a New York-based actor delivered the speech on location in Boston on July 14, 2007. This five-minute video is based on a 17-minute speech.
Cover of the 2007 Dark Horse Comics Free Comic Book Day issue, featuring the first printed story of The Umbrella Academy, “…But the Past Ain’t Through With You.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cover scan of a Great Comics comic book (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
hey guys, its me, Ed R.
do you have children in your life?
then, spare me a moment i want to share a secret with you.
but first let me tell you what today is, among other things.
today May 4th, 2013 is Free Comic Book Day
every year, on the first Saturday in May,
comic shops the world over, together with comic book publishers, conspire to get you and your kid/s into a comic book shop.
they do this by giving away free comic books.
and all you have to do is show up.
at the end of this message i have posted a list of
some of the comics that are to be given away free today only, collector's items, really.
now to my secret, i learned to read with comic books,
i know that's not so strange. here's the strange part,
i learned to LOVE TO READ with comic books.
and stranger still, i learned to love science, art, history, politics, and the humanities because i was introduced to these concepts through comic books.
uh-huh, truly. :-)
i hear you saying, but Ed, my child/ren already have children's books, my children already love to read.
that's okay, i read children's books as well. still do, Young Adult books like THE HUNGER GAMES are still a favorite.
of course i'm currently reading James Joyce and Pablo Neruda but name-dropping lacks luster without the likes of comic writers Alan Moore, Josh Whedon and Neil Gaiman on the list. all favorites of mine, and yours too if you ever set foot into a movie theater,
for which they write wonderful scripts.
comic books, there's something special about them,
about the way that our mind has to fill in the blanks between panels.
the most important part of the stories
in comic books have no picture, no words, only our mind carrying us from one panel to the next, without our consent or knowledge, yet much to the benefit of our imagination. if you spend any amount of time in a gym, you already appreciate that our imagination requires exercise just as our bodies do.
so, if you have the chance to do it, drop in to
a comic shop today for a few minutes, let your kid/s pick up some free books, they'll love you for it, and you may find an enjoyable freebie for yourself as well.
