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Below is a listing of our Comic-Com 2011-related events.

Comic-Con 2011 International - Related Events

DIME NOVELS TO PULP FICTION: exhibit of popular magazines. Three exhibit cases filled with examples of classic magazines from the early 1900s featuring science fiction, mystery, and adventure. In the Wangenheim Room, 3rd Floor, Central Library.

Monday, July 18th, 1:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: The Digital Revolution and Comics, in conjunction with the San Diego County Law Library. Central Library, in the 3rd Floor Auditorium.

Monday, July 18th, 6:30 p.m. Author Talk: Featuring IDW Publishing's Chris Ryall, chief creative officer, publisher and editor-in-chief of the American comic book and graphic novel powerhouse will discuss the industry, his work, writing processes and the anthology Classics Mutilated. In the Wangenheim Room, 3rd Floor, Central Library.

Tuesday, July 19th, 1:30 p.m. The Outer Limits: The Galaxy Being episode. Brown bag screening in the Central Library, 3rd Floor Auditorium.

Wednesday, July 20, 1:30 p.m. The Outer Limits: The Sixth Finger episode. Brown bag screening in the Central Library, 3rd Floor Auditorium.

Thursday, July 21, 1:30 p.m. The Outer Limits: The Man who was Never Born. Central Library, in the 3rd Floor Auditorium.

Friday, July 22, 1:30 p.m. The Outer Limits: Demon with a Glass Hand. Central Library, in the 3rd Floor Auditorium.

Monday, July 25, 6:30 p.m. Author Talk: Featuring Danielle Smith's In the Neon. "In the Neon" is a sensuous tale of love and redemption between a beautiful human woman and a True Native of Hell collector demon, called Faustus. In the Wangenheim Room, 3rd Floor, Central Library.

Wednesday, July 27, 6:30 p.m. Schlockfest: Devil Girl from Mars. Leather-clad femme fatale arrives from Mars to recruit men as breeding stock. Do the women of Earth put up a fight or say good riddance? Centry Library, in the 3rd Floor Auditorium.

Action Figure Display. See this display all month at Carmel Valley Branch Library. There are three display cases filled with action figures from movies, TV, video games, and comic books. From the collection of Carmel Valley resident George Dixon.

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We hope you stopped by the Library's Comic-Con booth and picked up a free button and bookmark! The Library's booth, Booth #2517, was centrally located right behind the CCI boutique in Aisle 2500. Comic-Con International 2011 is now over.

See this year's button on the left-hand side!

The Library has long been associated with books and bespectacled people, but many have seen another face of the library ...comics and tights!

It is a simple fact that kids who read comics eventually grow up to be doctors, lawyers, chefs and even librarians. Not only that, a medium that was once considered to be trivial, campy or even downright subversive has become a dominating force in creative circles and entertainment, such as Alan Moore's epic "Watchmen." Is it any surprise the Library has these materials?

Web comics, movies, video games, and even novelizations have spawned from popular and (not-so-popular) cult hits from the comic world. Hollywood has embraced this, as we can see by a string of movies all adapted from comics; recent examples would be Frank Miller's Sin City, Green Lantern, Thor, and the several X-Men and Spider-Man films. Alright, those were easy (not even worthy of your nerdy brain), but did you know these titles were based on comics, too? The Spartan epic 300, the vampire flick 30 Days of Night, the moody and atmospheric Jack the Ripper tale From Hell and even the drama A History of Violence and the action/thriller the Losers.

Enjoy comics and Comic-Con! See you next year for Comic-Con International 2012!

Every year, San Diego's Comic-Con seems to get a little bigger, a little better, and a whole lot more fun. Last year, we talked to so many talented people who stopped by our SDPL booth --artists, authors, bloggers, and even a Jedi or two.

If you stopped in 2010, you may remember our collectible pin set (6 unique designs in total) that was a limited-run SDPL Comic-Con special. For 2011, we unveiled not only a new run of uniquley designed pins, but a talented artist has donated several custom SDPL book marks which were given out in 2011. All badges are now gone.

See the button design for 2011 on the left-hand side!

We had a little geek freak-out when one of the illustrators/artists from "the Simpsons" came by and drew one of our favorite characters right before our eyes! And that was just the first day last year (2010)!

Below are a sampling of the sketches we had made in our booth last year.

As American as apple pie...yellow, spikey-haired apple pie. A huge thanks to the wonderful, creative people who have been making us laugh all this time.

We were so happy to see this one come in. We check out her books so often to kids, it was a pleasure having her stop by.

This one caught our eye. It's almost as if things with books are interesting to us...

Click the image below to visit the Comic-Con 2011 Web site. Note that the 2011 Comic-Con International is now over.