Denver Comic Con (DCC) - Denver, CO
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The annual Denver Comic Con allows visitors to dress as their favorite super-hero/villain while raising money for literacy programs for children K-8.
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Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 06/04/2013
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Denver's Comic Con celebrated their second year with a sell-out crowd. The event allows people to dress up and visit famous actors and other notables in the Comic Book industry.
"COMIC BOOK CLASSROOM (also known as CBC) is a non-profit literacy and arts after-school program currently designed for children in grades 5-8. As a state standards-based curriculum, the program offers students not only a fun activity to do but solid educational engagement in their after-school time.
Students in our program undergo a six-week instruction in reading, writing stories and eventually creating their own comics, which are then published in a class collection. CBC graduates are subsequently invited to participate in Denver Comic Con as guests to create sketches and/or sell their work.
Currently, everyone in DCC and CBC – from Con Organizers to Curriculum Developers – are all volunteers and proceeds from Denver Comic Con go to the funding of Comic Book Classroom and the furthering of our educational goals. The massive success of Denver Comic Con 2012 earned enough money to allow CBC to greatly expand its mission.
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