MKE Comicbook: May 2017: Cross-overs and Guest-Stars
For the May comicbook meetup, we focused on sharing all our favorite or noteworthy Team-ups, Cross-overs, and Guest-Stars. These are stories that…
MKE Comicbook: April 2017: REDEMPTION!
The April MKE Comicbook meetup was focused on a theme of “redemption.” Before we started sharing our books, we discussed the theme…
May 2017: MKE Cosplay 5k Infinity Crusade
May 6, 2017 was the SIXTH MKE Cosplay 5k to happen since 2014! This was a pretty exciting achievement for the event,…
MKE Comicbook: March 2017: Women Creators and Characters!
In honor of Women’s History Month, the MKE Comicbook meetup for April focused on women creators and characters. We had a good…
MKE Comicbook: Feb 2017: Fave Non-Human Characters
(click ’em to big ’em) The February MKE Comicbook meetup was very well-attended and it’s no surprise why – the topic of…
MKE Comicbook: Jan 2017: What you read in the last 30 days
The January MKE Creatives was a fun, easy topic to talk about: What have you read in the last 30 days? Here’s…
MKE Comicbook:: 2017 Schedule
MKE Comicbook is a Milwaukee-based meetup for teens-to-adult readers of comicbooks. It’s a discussion-based group, with each month focusing on a different…
MKE Comicbook: Dec 2016: Controversial Comics
The December MKE Comicbook was one with a fun topic – “Controversial Comics”, and was very well-attended! Since we had some new…
MKE Cosplay 5k – Contest of Champions
For two years, I’ve been organizing the “MKE Cosplay 5k” – a combination geek-event, 5k run/walk, and donation-raiser-for-a-local-nonprofit. On October 23, a…
MKE Comicbook: November 2016: History
(click ’em to big ’em) November’s MKE Comicbook at Anodyne Coffee had a topic was a one I was excited for –…
MKE Comicbook: Oct 2016: Detectives and Sleuths!
Our October MKE Comicbook Meetup was a fun one, exploring a topic we hadn’t tried before – “Detectives and Sleuths”. Instead of…
MKE Comicbook: Sept 2016: Cull Your Collection for CBLDF!
This September’s meetup was our annual “Cull Your Collection Sale” to benefit the ComicBook Legal Defense Fund. The CBLDF is an important…
MKE Comicbook: Aug 2016: Diversity in Characters, Creators
This month at MKE Comicbook we talked about the continued diversification of creators and characters in mainstream comicbooks. Through much of the…
MKE Comicbook: July 2016: HERE COME THE VILLAINS!
(click ’em to big ’em) The July MKE Comicbook focused on a topic we haven’t covered before – the villains of…
MKE Comicbook: June 2016: NO SUPES
The June MKE Comicbook meetup at Anodyne Coffee had a new-to-us topic of discussion: NO SUPERPOWERS. People could share any book they…
MKE Comicbook: May 2016: Kid-friendly comicbooks and Web-comics Part 2
…continuing from last night’s post… Kate had a few books to share on our “kid-friendly” theme. Thematically similar to the previously mentioned…
MKE Comicbook: May 2016: kid-friendly comics and web-comics, Part 1
(click the pics to BIG the pics) I think this is going to be a first, but I’m going to break the post…
MKE Comicbook: April 2016: The spiritual/afterlife in comicbooks
I was pretty excited for April’s MKE Comicbook, as we were going to be discussing a topic we haven’t covered before –…
MKE Comicbook March 2016: Fave Women Characters
This month was special in a few ways for the MKE Comicbook meetup – we met at a different location, had some new…
MKE Comicbook: Feb 2016: Spiral King Comics and Time Travel Stories
This month’s MKE Comicbook at Anodyne Coffee had a great triple-feature – a presentation from local creator, Guy Thomas of Sprial King…
MKE Comicbook: Jan 2016: R-Rated Clothing
In January’s MKE Comicbook, we did something we haven’t done in quite awhile – welcomed a guest presenter to the discussion! On…