{"id":2087,"date":"2011-09-29T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T17:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:10:17","slug":"thought-balloons-talking-about-comics-oct-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/29\/thought-balloons-talking-about-comics-oct-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought Balloons: Talking about Comics, Oct 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/comics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/comics-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Thought Balloons: Talking about Comics\" class=\"wp-image-2093\" title=\"comics\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/comics-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/comics.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Drop in at the Main Library\u2019s Comic Book Caf\u00e9 and share your thoughts about comics: creating them, reading them, collecting them. Tell us what your favorite comic is (and why). Bring your own creations, or listen to others talk about journaling through comics, or the history of comics, or the comic book industry. Learn about the growing collection of comics and graphic novels in the UI Libraries and some of the comics created by the Federal Government. Anyone who wishes can speak for up to five minutes about some aspect of comic books, but when the egg timer rings, your time is up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 4, 2011 \u201cThought Balloons: Talking about Comics\u201d<\/strong><br><strong>11:30 a.m \u2013 1:30 p.m.<\/strong><br><strong>Comic Book Caf\u00e9, 1st floor, UI Main Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drinks will be provided. Bring your own lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by the University of Iowa Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drop in at the Main Library\u2019s Comic Book Caf\u00e9 and share your thoughts about comics: creating them, reading them, collecting them. Tell us what your favorite comic is (and why). Bring your own creations, or listen to others talk about journaling through comics, or the history of comics, or the comic book industry. Learn about<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/29\/thought-balloons-talking-about-comics-oct-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Thought Balloons: Talking about Comics, Oct 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}