Volume 2, Issue 1 (2015) Imagining, Re-imagining, and Examining
New beginnings, continuing missions
This inaugural volume/issue represents the myriad of approaches and uses of comics in the classroom, continuing our mission of providing instructors with a range of tools with which to explore and experiment. Cover crafted by Dr. Gene Kannenberg, Jr.,comics scholar and creator of the abstract comic series, Comics Machine (http://comicsmachine.tumblr.com).Articles
Overviewing Software Applications for Graphic Novel Creation in the Post-Secondary and Secondary Classroom
Jeffrey S.J. Kirchoff PhD and Mike Cook PhD
Students as Critics: Exploring Readerly Alignments and Theoretical Tensions in Satrapi’s Persepolis
Ashley K. Dallacqua
PIM Pedagogy: Toward a Loosely Unified Model for Teaching and Studying Comics and Graphic Novels
James B. Carter
Visualizing Abolition: Two Graphic Novels and a Critical Approach to Mass Incarceration for the Composition Classroom
Michael Sutcliffe
Grids and Gestures: A Comics Making Exercise
Nick Sousanis