Tag: Comics

Superman is a Dick. It’s true! It’s true! (Click for larger image)

Here’s the second installment of my semi-regular column on teaching comics: Teaching Comics: Expediting the Learning Process

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

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

comics.212.net – Cautiously Optimistic This guy really hits the nail on the head in this post. He’s reacting to a recent incarnation of the oft-cried mantra “There are no comics for kids any more!” I’ve heard everyone from comic book store owners to author Michael Chabon claim this, and each time I hear it I’m …

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