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Links: Reading comics is reading!
October 16, 2009
Reading with Pictures is a new non-profit organization that plans to research the best ways to use comics in the classroom (and outside it) and work with teachers to implement them. This inspired Calista Brill of First Second Books to write an excellent
essay on comics and literacy, so go, read!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days came out this week; here's a video
interview with author Jeff Kinney in which he discusses this latest addition to his
oeuvre. (Via
Teaching Graphic Novels.)
Is David Small's
Stitches really a young adult novel? There seems to be some
question.
At The Graphic Classroom, Tracy Edmunds alerts us to a
documentary that's in the works about comics and literacy and includes a link to a trailer.
Sadie Mattox has some
thoughts on Betty and Veronica.
Lora Innes
talks about her teen-friendly webcomic
The Dreamer, which has just been published in print form, at The Trades.
A retailer
praises Boom! Studios' line of Disney comics as more "kid-friendly" than the old Gemstone editions but urges Boom! to drop its alternate covers, which are causing confusion on the part of parents.
Out from the Comics Shop lists
this week's new kid-friendly comics.
Indefatigable Capt'n Eli artist Jay Piscopo will be
touring Pennsylvania next week.
Reviews
Snow Wildsmith on
vol. 1 of Fairy Idol Kanon (Manga Jouhou)
Kevin Hodgson on
Hansel and Gretel (The Graphic Classroom)
Ed Sizemore on
Knights of the Lunch Table: The Dragon Players (Comics Worth Reading)
Chris Wilson on
The Monster of Lake Lobo (The Graphic Classroom)
A Library Girl on
The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA (A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions)
John Seven on
The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Reverse Direction)
Posted by Brigid Alverson on October 16, 2009 | Comments (1)
