They're young--the oldest is sixteen, I think, but the youngest is eleven, so we've mostly tried to steer away from anything with adult material (knowing that that particular girl independantly picks out manga with adult material--f'r instance, Hot Gimmick--I might have been willing to chance it, but my co-host has always been very insistent on only doing all-ages material). Dramacon was, in fact, kind of pushing it in terms of the material, with cursing and a gratuitous attemped rape. I would love to someday run a club with older members and do a broader range of stuff (and even just some more mature manga), but this is the crowd we've got. I actually won't have any say in future material, since I'll be leaving the store before the next meeting. Once I'm gone, I expect it will probably morph into a comics workshop, since my co-host is an amateur artist, and doesn't possess the same breadth of comics knowledge I have, and several of the girls are interested drawing as well as reading.
I was floored by the poor reception of Bone. Personally, I loved it, because it's really well-done, but more importantly, it's something you should be able to read without any preliminaries--if you can read and make sense of the Sundays comics page, Bone ought to be pretty accessible. I didn't know about the intention to recreate an old comics feeling, but I'm not surprised, because I so often got that sense when I was reading it.
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on 2007-11-26 08:10 pm (UTC)I was floored by the poor reception of Bone. Personally, I loved it, because it's really well-done, but more importantly, it's something you should be able to read without any preliminaries--if you can read and make sense of the Sundays comics page, Bone ought to be pretty accessible. I didn't know about the intention to recreate an old comics feeling, but I'm not surprised, because I so often got that sense when I was reading it.