Quote:
“Of course teachers should use comics across the curriculum, just as they might use film or poetry or painting. I can’t imagine teaching the Middle East without Sacco, the holocaust without Spiegelman, gender without Bechdel.”
-Dr. William Ayres, in an interview about his new book To Teach: The Journey, In Comics over at the Graphic Novel Reporter.
I’ll have to check this one out – my long term goal is to teach Visual Culture at a college or grad level, which obviously ties heavily into teaching and comics (and other pop culture product.) So it seems like this book would be right up my alley. The art doesn’t seem amazing at first glance, but I figure it’s worth a look (kind of like a Understanding Comics knock-off, honestly, but also combined with some strip I can’t name.)
I also read Ayres’ Fugitive Days and thought it was really very interesting. Guy got a lot of bad press last election cycle, but it was mainly using him as a tool to smear others – he’s been highly respected in his field for some time and everything I’ve read from him has been pretty good and well reasoned.
Anyway – was surprising to find out he is such a comic fan and just put one out himself!
If anyone has seen this out there, let me know what you think. It will be some time before I actually get to look at it in person, since I’ve got such a huge reading backlog.
All of the entries (76 books) in the Ultimate Marvel Reading Order have been moved to the custom post type system, which means they’ll be open to Ultimate Universe Character tagging and so on. Plus no overlap with other lists anymore. Same as Fables and Buffyverse so far – still everything else to go!
I also still need to figure out what upcoming Ultimate trades there are, and finish adding in the couple that have come out since I last updated the entries on the list.
Tomorrow is my day off, so I hope to use the time to finish adding as many of the Unplaced Books as possible to the DCU Recommended Reading Order. If I have any extra, or I get bored and need a break, I might write another review or get a little more done on that Hellboy list.