Why? Because comic books are the #1 way to create great readers and clever people!
I know, a pretty bold statement, but most studies seem to agree.
Superliterate is a California-based non-profit that collects unused comic books and shares them with children in underserved neighborhoods, foster care, and juvenile detention centers. Our primary goal is to facilitate the positive impacts of comic-based learning and level the playing field by helping as many young adults as possible.
With your help, we can bring comic books to kids and young adults who don’t have easy access to them. The now annual King Con in Kingman Az, brought to the world by Big Mike’s Toy Reunion
With your help, we can bring comic books to kids and young adults who don’t have easy access to them. The now annual King Con in Kingman Az, brought to the world by Big Mike’s Toy Reunion is aperfect place to get these comic bundles into earer and deserving hands.
We’ll be bring a couple thousand books which will be given out to kids of all ages, first come first served.
KING-CON: KINGMAN COMIC CON: The Original Comic Con of Kingman,Az @ Beale Celebrations, 201 N 4th Street, Kingman, AZ 86401
Friday, October 4th 1:00p-9:00p
Saturday, October 5th 11:00a-7:00p
Sunday, October 6th 11:00p-3:00p
KINGMAN COMIC CON
Free Comic Book Day is traditionally a national event where comic shops buy publisher-subsidized, low-priced issues as promotional copies to bring people into their stores, foster new readers, and develop the fan base for the titles. In most instances, this is done exclusively at comic book shops. Our closest individual book retailer is in Palm Springs. But we believe it is such a fun, great idea, that creates so much benefit that we are dedicated to bring it to events all year long.
As we develop as an organization we intend to dramatically increase the communities we serve. We are also focused on working with teachers and libraries in order to publish books and develop curriculum that can inspire the next generation of avid readers, writers, and creators while closing the literacy and life skill gap created by the underfunding of education and negative impacts from other social challenges.
Eventually we’ll be launching a Kickstarter to secure a base of operations that will include a brick-and-mortar retail shop. We desperately need more room to sort out donations and stuff our giveaway bags. Once opened, besides now being able to self-fund the program by selling donated comics as well as the pop art collectibles and clothing that the Comic Convention world enjoys, it’s our objective to use this space as a comic/gaming community center as well. Reading clubs via ZOOM combined with local participation can truly add to the experience and development of a positive social atmosphere. Gamers and all other nerdy pursuits may find an HQ there too. In the meantime, we’ll try to provide some entertaining and informative podcasts, some art prints, funky t-shirts, and maybe sell some of the donated stuff online in order to keep this project alive.
For further research, here are a couple of links (of hundreds) that back up our thoughts on how and why comic books are so incredibly successful in teaching kids a variety of skills, talents, and abilities.
For example, some simple search results include Scholastic.com being quoted for the question “Are comic books good for learning?”
The response was, “These (comic books) offer a plethora of learning benefits – critical thinking, sequencing, imagination, storytelling, and creativity. Just think, every time that your child reads the book, it will be completely unique.”
Read more at Scholastic.com
See how Government agencies agree!
There are so many results as to why comics are such great teaching tools. Harvard, Yale, and many others have all come to the same conclusion. It is an amazing learning tool. You may be overwhelmed. Look…
Side benefit? This project expands the comic book market with new readers! So it’s absolutely beneficial to the industry that brings us all so much entertainment.
