Teaching Comics in Seattle

I’m currently the recipient of all email that comes to the “info@” email address listed as the contact address for NACAE/teachingcomics.org,and every so often I get an email from someone in the press wanting a quote about the growing presence of comics and graphic novels in educational settings.   When this happens I usually suggest they contact someone more auspicious than I–I usually suggest James Sturm of The Center for Cartoon Studies, Michael Bitz of The Comic Book Project, etc.–but invariably, they wind up talking to me instead.  I guess I’m the low hanging Google fruit for this sort of thing.  Anyway, I usually don’t link to the articles, mainly since they’re often those annoying “Pow! Boom! Zing! Comics are blah blah blah” sorts of things, but in this case the article turned out to be a nicely written bit, mainly about cartoonist and teacher Leonard Rifas and a new class he’s offering in Seattle.  The article’s here, and be sure to check out the comments section–it’s almost as interesting as the article itself.