Tag: visual literacy
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The ‘Nam at 40: Veterans Day, Marvel’s Real-Time War, and the Generation That Read It
Forty years ago, Marvel launched The ‘Nam, a war comic told in real time by Vietnam veterans Doug Murray and Don Lomax. This Veterans Day post explores how the series helped veterans put their war into words, gave their children a view of a war they never saw on the evening news, and offers six…
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Using Comic Books to Explore Social and Historical Issues: Fall Semester in Review
This fall semester, I took a deliberate approach to using comic books as teaching tools to explore critical social and historical issues that resonate with my high school students. Rather than treating comics as simple entertainment, I leveraged their visual storytelling power and cultural relevance to create engaging entry points for discussions about representation, identity,…
