I wanted to mention that the day before our next meeting, Wednesday, September 8, will be the very first gathering of the new Manga Comic Book Club I was asked to organize for the Crow Collection of Asian Art. You all are invited, and this group will meet less regularly than our own group. Running in “series,” the Manga Comic Book Club will meet in four-month intervals as a season. The first is this fall, meeting the second Wednesday of each month, and we will be spending the entire season reading all eight volumes of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha (the first volume of which we read way back when in the Dallas Comic Book Club when it was still at the DMA). If you have been pining to read the whole series, you might want to come out. We’re reading two books for each month, so the first meeting next week covers Volume 1: Kapilavastu and Volume 2: The Four Encounters. More details can be found at the Crow site: http://www.crowcollection.org/event_view.aspx?eventID=4914&returnUrl=calendar.aspx%3Fdate%3D9%2F1%2F2010

I hope your summer’s have wrapped up nicely. We had a great time last month discussing the Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis and I am greatly looking forward to this month’s discussion of Solanin by Asano Inio. I’m really excited to talk about this book! We will next meet on Thursday, September 9 at 7:30 pm at the Half-Price Books on Northwest Hwy (5803 E. NW Hwy., Dallas). As is our norm now, please proceed directly to the Community Room at the back of the store for the discussion.