The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), held May 13­–14, has become a can’t-miss event for comics enthusiasts and artists. Unlike the comics conventions in San Diego and New York—known for their ...
John Odum reports from a very NSFW panel at NYCC 2017: To attend the Graphic Sex: Comics, New Media and the Queering of Sex Education panel, one had to leave the NYCC-prime universe of the Javitz ...
On the heels of its pioneering Holocaust-themed “motion comics,” Washington D.C.’s David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies is launching a major initiative enlisting comics luminaries to educate ...
“It’s TED Talks meets Comic Con meets Book Expo.” That’s how show organizer John Shableski describes the Wildcat Comic Con, a two-day celebration of comics in the classroom to be held this weekend, ...
Most teachers would agree that teaching is one of the most exhausting jobs to love. Between meeting the individual needs of our students, keeping up with the latest initiatives and completing the ...
Behind the craziness of Comic-Con is a hidden world of education panels that offers tips and insights into trends in teaching tools, strategies for improved classroom learning, and support for victims ...
Comics have always been an entry point for learning to read. “You looked at 'Archie' and 'Jughead' and 'Veronica' and you made the stories happen. This is before we even knew what the alphabet was and ...
A few years ago, I taught a writing course—a first-year seminar—on the graphic novel. We read Art Spiegelman’s, Talking about how writers and illustrators created these graphic novels was fine. When ...
When the Covid-19 pandemic broke down learning among students, Chennai-based Abhishek Ramanuja and Nandini Chilkam decided to do something about it. Back in December 2020, both of them co-founded ...
Dominic Archer is currently crowdfunding his comic book, A Boxer, which can be found here. I wrote my first crossover story at 12 years old. Sat at the back of the class in Mr. Cope's history lesson, ...