By Cathlena Martin As Charles Hatfield’s “Introduction” observes, comics are still largely understood by the general public, journalists, and critics as a medium directed toward a…
By Charles Hatfield Comics and childhood: the pairing of the two seems inevitable, yet remains, somehow, both contentious and under-examined. Notwithstanding a barrowful of contrary evidence…
By Ġorġ Mallia Introduction: Children and Comics Comics have almost always been primarily an entertainment medium. Their appeal to people in general, and children in particular,…
By Daniel Yezbick In the earliest and most celebrated appreciation of George Carlson’s comic book art, Harlan Ellison christens him “a cartoonist of the absurd,” a…
By Cari Keebaugh “Literature is about the human condition. Regardless of where a story takes place or what happens in it, the characters should still, at…
By Sam Hester On March 21, 2006, Margaret Mahy celebrated her 70th birthday, during a weekend of celebration that one publisher called “the weekend New Zealand…
By Elizabeth Sandifer “Sometimes I think all of my friends have been imaginary.” – Bill Watterson In recent years, several fields of theory have, seemingly independently,…
By James Bucky Carter A recent policy statement on multimodal literacies from the National Council of Teachers of English reads: According to Ben McCorkle, “we are…
By Veronique Bragard1 Fables, characterized by their featuring animals and containing a moral, are among the earliest forms of storytelling. With its aim to simultaneously teach…
By Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark D. Arnold Between 1946 and 1964, over seventy-six million babies were born in America, comprising one of the greatest baby…