What's up this fall?

Welcome back to school, and back to the library to all our neighborhood students who've been away. What's up this fall? Homework help every day after school, both in English and Spanish. And our regulars know we are all about helping with math, writing, science fair, and all kinds of school projects and papers.

We have some completely great after-school activities coming up too- our ongoing learn-to-draw-and-write Comics class, for one- here's a couple of comics kids did.
The Comics Consortium (that's the group of all the artists who participate) has an anthology coming out, put together by awesome instructors / artists Walker Mettling and Andrew Oesch. This will be both the kids' work and work by other artists inspired by their work.
We're adding Cyberkids, super fun computer classes for upper elementary kids, and maybe a hip hop / creative writing/ poetry class. We definitely will have a photography project too.
Chess club has changed to 5:30pm every Thursday with Sam still coaching. And Fridays are still super excellent movie and game day, with great movies that are kid friendly. If you want to see a particular movie, talk to Lyndsy and Sara.
See you soon!

Comics Consortium!

Hey! Picture of Walker Mettling with his students in the Comics Consortium, at Washington Park Library below. And in the spirit of comics, colored for your viewing pleasure.Some of the characters students in the Consortium have created include Monster Arms, who loves fake noses; Queeny, who can freeze you, wants chocolate, and fears lions;  Sharp Tooth, who wants to save people and still fight- his enemy is Chinman; and Fat Chicken, who wants money and has the enemy of Skinny Chicken.
So stay tuned, for these adventures and more!

Comics comics comics!

Washington Park Library is very excited to be offering this Learn To Draw Comics! program. We'd like to thank the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for making this possible.
What makes comics so exciting, anyway? And not just the characters - Spiderman! or Ironman! or the Hulk!
ALTHOUGH they're admittedly very exciting- but it's all about the visual PUNCH*%#!!! of the artwork.
It's not just DC and Marvel -check out Golden Age Comics to see some of the forgotten series and superheroes, and other publishers: Fawcett Comics, Avon Comics, Harvey Comics and many many others - and superheroes and other protagonists such as Zaza the Mystic, Nature Boy, Bob Colt, Mary Marvel, Airboy, and the Blue Beetle.
Ask at your neighborhood library to sign up for this class- Washington Park, Olneyville, Wanskuck, Knight Memorial, and Rochambeau are all offering this beginning next week! Spaces are for kids and teens ages only- and space is limited! Call today!