Comics
Comics, graphic novels, manga, picture books, and anything they used to called “sequential art.”
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WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS! Spider-man is 50 this year. It’s weird knowing he is just a few years older than me. He’s had such a huge impact on my life. He’s an American comic book institution right alongside Superman. But unlike Superman, when Spidey (as Peter Parker) pulled off his horn-rimmed glasses and donned his crime…
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If I were to put together a “Recommended Reading” list for dads, Fàbio Moon and Gabriel Bà’s Daytripper would definitely be on it. It’s tough for me to talk about it without spoiling it for those who haven’t read it yet. I suck at being coy with the details – especially when it comes to…
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When I saw that video of Andrew Garfield, dressed in that drugstore Spiderman costume, speaking so frenetically about his relationship with the Wall Crawler, it got me thinking about my own times with the Web Head. “Being free of the body I was born into,” that’s what Andrew says Spider-Man meant to him and “every…
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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by Carmen Agra Deedy. Illustrated by Michael Austin. The kids and I saw this book lying on top of a pile of picture books stacked on the floor of the Children’s reading area at our local library. We had sat down on the carpeted steps to kill some time. It’s not…
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In William Bee’s Whatever, an eager father tries desperately to engage his son, who has no interest in anything. Drawn with simple unsophisticated shapes and colors and told in simple single lines of text, the book works as a whole artistic comment on ennui. My kids, who have both been prone to complaining about boredom…
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While not picture books in the traditional sense of stitched hardcovers, the Tiny Titans series by Art Baltazar and Franco should not be ignored. They are engaging, colorful, and “slapsticky” – making them an engaging way to sustain positive reading habits among emergent readers.
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Good friends tell each other the truth. They are honest with one another. But sometimes good friends allow each other to keep certain “rationalizations.” I tell my good friends I go to the annual New York Comic Con (NYCC) for the sake of my kids and to fulfill my professional obligations as an educator. My…
