ARTICLE: The Amazing Adventures of the Comic-Book Dissertator

[Ryan Goble]

Of value to ELA teachers thinking beyond traditional literacies. Ideally, "literacy" means reading, writing, speaking, listening, VIEWING and REPRESENTING! But everyone here knows that!

Good friend and MC POPPER Nick Sousanis has been getting a lot of love in the press the last few years. This article recently came out in The Chronicle of Higher Ed's web magazine Vitae.

My favorite quote from this article is:

“We make sense of the world beyond [print] text,” he says. “The visual system is really powerful. I don’t think of this work as illustration. Rather than illustrating things, the images and the composition are the thinking.”

 

You can read / see more at: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/361-the-amazing-adventures-of-the-c...