Teachers loving comics

This USA Today article highlights something that I’ve witnessed evolve over the last few years: educators are accepting comics as a legitimate way to get kids reading.

“And along with librarians, teachers also are embracing comics, both for recreational and instructional reading. They’re using the caped crusader Batman to explore mythology and Art Spiegelman’s Maus, a Holocaust memoir, as well as other titles, to teach history.”

With publishers like Scholastic getting into the graphic novel genre, with their new Graphix line of comics, it’s clear that comics are shedding the stigma of being junk and moving closer to the respect they deserve.

As the creator and writer of one popular comic and a graphic novel for reluctant readers, I couldn’t be happier.

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