My Role as a comic reader

This idea was put into my head a few months back by the guys at the CGS podcast, "What is our role as comic book readers and fans?" I have been thinking about this a lot since i heard that episode, and i feel that at the very least my role as a comic reader and fan is to spread the Gospel of comic books. I realize that i have been doing this for years, mainly by getting comics into the hands of non comic readers. Basically, if i know you and you show even the slightest bit of interest in the Spider-man ill give you a trade of current Spider-Man with the slightest hope you'll buy another(yes im the pusher man of comics). I think i have given almost all of my friends at least one comic with those hopes in mind. This has worked better with some than others. One friend recently started collecting spider-man comics pretty hard after years of reading some stuff that i gave him and seeing me collecting. Another friend just got caught up on the current deadpool series, when in the beginning he liked the random deadpool internet memes and i gave him the first issue. Others just mooched off me for walking dead issue by issue.

Also i try and work comics into conversation with people i work with that have interest in the movies, and also let people know when local comic events are going down (gave local con flyers to my wife to give out at work).

I feel that it should be the duty of all comic fans to let non comic fans know about this stuff cause comic only advertise in comics, comic conventions only advertise in comcs, and people barely know that comics are still around except for when Captain America dies or Spider-Man takes off his mask.