Dr. Michael A. Nowak – Legion of Super Pets Custom Figures!

Dr. Michael A. Nowak – Legion of Super Pets Custom Figures!

People who make their own dolls…uh, I mean “action figures,” are somewhat peculiar in my book, but someone who’s chosen to manufacture figures of the “Legion of Super-Pets” is just straight-up weird.

Superman is a Dick.

Superman is a Dick.

It’s true! It’s true!

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Teaching comics on SilverBullet.com

Here’s the second installment of my semi-regular column on teaching comics:

Teaching Comics: Expediting the Learning Process

Comics on NPR

Kudos to NPR which has done two comics-related stories in the last few days. The one on the Angouleme Festival of course features the obligatory interview with Art Spiegelman, the American cartoonst without whom NPR apparently cannot put together a comics-related story:

Jim Ottaviani and Jay Hosler

Angouleme Festival

Teaching comics in Loncoln, Nebraska

Here’s an article on teaching comics in the student paper of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A couple of folks from NACAE are mentioned, including me:

Daily Nebraskan