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category: Acceptances, Life
Comments(0) [All of us here at Texas A&M University are on spring break this week, so while I am working on trying to get ahead in my coursework and hammer out some papers, I thought I might recall some of my previous posts for my readers: Book Fairs are like Christmas (Discourse Chronicle) Phloph’s Scrabble Score […]
category: Life
Comments(0) In Making Comics, I’ll do my best to cover the storytelling secrets I don’t see any other books talking about, including: Choosing the right moments to make into panels; what to include, what to leave out. Framing actions and guiding the reader’s eyes. Choosing words and images that communicate together. Creating varied and compelling characters […]
category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) In his research, Smith has found the work of Scott McCloud extremely valuable. McCloud, an artist and critic, explored many of the ideas Smith is interested in with the books “Understanding Comics” and “Reinventing Comics,” which both use the form of comic books — cartoon artwork, speech bubbles and so forth — to advance ideas […]
category: Comics, Popular Culture
Comments(2) “Education is a particularly powerful factor in both life expectancy and health, and we’re not quite sure why,” Richard Suzman, associate director for behavioral and social research at the National Institute on Aging, said in the teleconference. Better-educated people may have more money to pay for health care, and they may know more about a […]
Comments(0) It is regrettable that the Times reporters refused to acknowledge academic research that contradicts their conclusions. This continues the newspaper’s trend of poor reporting on abortion statistics over the last decade. For example, during the 2004 election season, the Times reported Glen Harold Stassen’s erroneous finding that abortions had increased during the George W. Bush’s […]
category: Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) “His uncle suggested that he start reading comic books and with that. his uncle Neal introduced him to the X-Men,” described Axel. It started way back when he loved dressing like the very characters he was reading about, just “kickin’ around” the idea scored a major interest. “This is the first X-Men issue that I […]
category: Literacy, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) [Each spring, the Writing Programs Office hosts a book fair and invites representatives from numerous book publishers to preview upcoming textbooks, many of which students work with throughout an academic career like Norton or Bedford / St. Martin’s. I never experienced a book fair before a few days ago, but I must say that as […]
category: Life
Comments(5) Just as Lost isn’t really a show about a haunted island, Heroes isn’t a show about crusaders, caped or otherwise. It’s about people — albeit ones with extraordinary quirks. “I kind of want to stay away from the superhero aspect,” says Kring. “It’s about very ordinary people all over the world who literally discover that […]
category: Comics, Popular Culture, Television
Comments(1) It turns out a hidden message in a K-F-C ad is too close to subliminal advertising for A-B-C. The network says it’s following a longstanding policy and won’t air the commercial with the message. A-B-C is airing a different version, with the message frame cut out. No other network has refused the ad. Viewers can […]
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology, Television