{"id":673,"date":"2007-04-30T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2007-04-30T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T13:36:18","slug":"teaching-comics-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Comics in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently the recipient of all email that comes to the &#8220;info@&#8221; email address listed as the contact address for <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Teaching Comics\/NACAE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingcomics.org\">NACAE\/teachingcomics.org<\/a>,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.\u00a0\u00a0 When this happens I usually suggest they contact someone more auspicious than I&#8211;I usually suggest James Sturm of The Center for Cartoon Studies, Michael Bitz of The Comic Book Project, etc.&#8211;but invariably, they wind up talking to me instead.\u00a0 I guess I&#8217;m the low hanging Google fruit for this sort of thing.\u00a0 Anyway, I usually don&#8217;t link to the articles, mainly since they&#8217;re often those annoying &#8220;Pow! Boom! Zing! Comics are blah blah blah&#8221; 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&#8217;s offering in Seattle.\u00a0 The article&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Teaching comics in Seattle\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/313189_comics26.html\">here<\/a>, and be sure to check out the comments section&#8211;it&#8217;s almost as interesting as the article itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently the recipient of all email that comes to the &#8220;info@&#8221; 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.\u00a0\u00a0 When this happens I usually suggest they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=673\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45,11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-aR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}