Hive FM: Minority Report
on March 4, 2013Also: Shoe Shiners, Payphone repairmen, Street name namers, Igloo plumbers, crop circle architects, people who genuinely enjoy Mortal Kombat over Street Fighter, the kids from the “one of these kids is not like the other” bit on Sesame Street, and the entire customer database of Sony.
There’s a huge number of people who go to the library where I live… (then again, our library system in Toronto has the largest per-capita circulation in the world – it’s probably the single most popular and best-run service that the municipal government provides. It would be depressing to live in a place where that wasn’t true)
Yeah I think it says a lot about how neglected most libraries are in Australia than anything else.
Though a few weeks ago I taught a small cartooning class at a local library and it really blew my mind about what a nicely run library could be like. Tons of comics, open spaces, people talking, good technology, they even had a Xbox 360 set up!
Maaaaaan libraries when I was a kid SUCKED.
Oh, I almost forgot – the fantastic Toronto Comic Arts Festival (a pretty large convention focusing on indie comic artists) takes place every year at the central library downtown, on a few different floors. I’ve gone for the past few years and it’s always been packed with people and artists, you get all sorts of people wandering in from the street as well as normal library visitors. It mainly focuses on non-superhero comics, aka. what is considered “non-mainstream” within the traditional comics industry and “mainstream” outside of it. It’s definitely something I look forward to each year, I always discover several cool artists every time I visit.