Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All

There is a happy feeling in general when comics folks get together these days. Oh, there may be the occasional digital kerfuffle, and DC...

Last year, Marvel received a letter from the mother of a young fan, Anthony Smith, who had hearing difficulties, and had been told by doctors...

If you heaven't read David Mazzuchelli's amazing graphic novel Asterios Polyp, please avert your eyes NOW. The award winning GN and book of the year in 2009 was a sly comment on art through the life of a man named Asterios Polyp, who finds potential happiness in life just in time to [SPOILER ALERT] have it potentially snuffed out by having a meteor fall on his house.

If there's one trend we've noticed growing over the years its the use of graphic novels as teaching tools—on the must basic level, comics are now recognized as a way to get reluctant readers to get started reading. On a larger level, comics are being used as a general teaching tool. Josh Elder's Reading with Pictures organization has been promoting this idea and cataloging the use of comics in the classroom. It's not just the visceral appeal of colorful pictures that puts comics over—some think that the verbal-visual blend is the future of literacy, and comics could potentially be on the forefront of that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Is no place safe from comics? Authors David Baldacci (Absolute Power) and Gillian...

Over the holiday weekend, I had a chance to view Ron Mann's documntary Comic Book Confidential, about which I will have more to say...

This weekend saw Thought Bubble 2012's convention, and.... phew, it was busy. I did my best to talk to everybody, but don't think I...

It’s getting tougher all the time, as Paul McCartney would’ve likely sung if the Beatles had reunited for a jaded comeback tour in the...

Nothing is safe anymore, is it? The world was rocked once more this week by a series of pop-culture calamities, proving without a shadow...

  Chris Roberson, co-founder of the digital publisher Monkeybrain Comics, has put out an open letter today explaining that for the whole of November, all...

Is there nowhere in the world of culture which can stay positive for more than five minutes!? This week we found out that not...

A few recent things that scampered across my reading stirred similar feelings. One was MTV Geek'sThe 10 Best Comics Of September 2012 which was...