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February 6, 2012 by Katherine Dacey

Links: Kickstarting classroom comics

February 6, 2012 by Katherine Dacey   Leave a Comment

The folks at Reading With Pictures, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the intelligent use of comics in education, just launched a Kickstarter campaign for two new projects: The Graphic Textbook and Open Source Comics. In 2010, RWP used Kickstarter to fund the publication of Reading With Pictures Anthology (2010), a Harvey Award-nominated collection of educational comics by Jeffrey Brown, Raina Telgemeier, Scott Sava, Eric Wight, and Jimmy Gownley.

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VIZ unveiled Shonen Jump Alpha this week, replacing the monthly print magazine with a weekly digital version. John Jakala took it for a test drive and pronounced the new magazine “not quite ready for prime time.”

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About Katherine Dacey

Katherine Dacey has been reviewing comics since 2006. From 2007 to 2008, she was the Senior Manga Editor at PopCultureShock, a site covering all aspects of the entertainment industry from comics to video games. In 2009, she launched The Manga Critic, where she focuses primarily on Japanese comics and novels in translation. Katherine lives and works in the Greater Boston area, and is a musicologist by training.

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