Links: Angouleme Selections Include ‘Nimona,’ ‘Walker Bean’
The official selections for the Angouleme International Comics Festival have been announced, and a number of children’s and YA books, including Nimona, Ms. Marvel, and The Unsinkable Walker Bean, have made the cut.
Jennifer Sheehan does a thorough job of reporting on a comics course offered at Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, interviewing the teacher, parents of students, and experts in the field of comics and education, making this a good introduction to the topic as a whole.
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Previews
Jem and the Holograms #10 (Comic Book Resources)
Jughead #3 (Comicosity)
Reviews: Comics scholar Aaron Kashtan posts brief reviews of a number of recent comics, including Lumberjanes #21, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #3, and Ms. Marvel #2, at his blog, The Ogre’s Feathers.
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Johanna Draper Carlson on Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor (Comics Worth Reading)
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About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor, a newspaper reporter, and assistant to the mayor of a small city. In addition to editing GC4K, she is a regular columnist for SLJ, a contributing editor at ICv2, an editor at Smash Pages, and a writer for Publishers Weekly. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.
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