College students assigned comic books, best-sellers (News-Record)
Comments(0) Salisbury also uses “Birth of a Nation,” a comic-book novel by Aaron McGruder, creator of the popular cartoon strip “Boondocks.” And she’s not the only professor outside the art department assigning comics. An English 105 class this semester was required to read “Watchmen” — a dystopian comic about superheroes who are outlawed by presidential order and struggle with existential dilemmas.
[Joel Pace, one of my undergraduate mentors, taught Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series for a long time in his Introduction to Literature course. Now he is switching to Blackpool. David Myers assigns Maus and Sally Robinson assigns Watchmen in their curriculums here at Texas A&M University. BK]
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