Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Special Issue of ImageText on Comics and Post-Secondary Education
I'm pleased to be a part of the new issue of ImageText, guest edited by James Bucky Carter and Najwa Al-Tabaa. Included in the issue is my article, "Webcomics, Multimodality, and Information Literacy."
Thursday, September 18, 2014
New Article: “There are no rules. And here they are”: Scott McCloud’s Making Comics as a Multimodal Rhetoric
The new issue of the Journal of Teaching Writing is just out and includes my article on Scott McCloud's Making Comics as a multimodal rhetoric. Here's an abstract:
The ways we read and compose and, more importantly, the ways our students read and compose, have become multimodal, involving not only words, but also images, sounds, video, spatial relationships, gestures, and other systems of signs through which meaning can be created. As English teachers we must broaden our views of what constitutes writing. We must address issues of not only alphabetic literacy, but also multimodal literacy—the means by which we compose and read meaning from and through multiple modes or sign systems. Since they are multimodal texts, comics can, in general, have an important place in such a shift in thinking and a text such as Scott McCloud’s Making Comics can, specifically, act as a flexible rhetorical framework for multimodal literacy.
The ways we read and compose and, more importantly, the ways our students read and compose, have become multimodal, involving not only words, but also images, sounds, video, spatial relationships, gestures, and other systems of signs through which meaning can be created. As English teachers we must broaden our views of what constitutes writing. We must address issues of not only alphabetic literacy, but also multimodal literacy—the means by which we compose and read meaning from and through multiple modes or sign systems. Since they are multimodal texts, comics can, in general, have an important place in such a shift in thinking and a text such as Scott McCloud’s Making Comics can, specifically, act as a flexible rhetorical framework for multimodal literacy.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
UW Comics Theory Course Blog
If you follow this blog, you might be interested in the blog I've set up for the Comics Theory course I'm teaching this fall. It will feature some course content, but the main emphasis will be on student posts on comics theory and practice. As of now the syllabus is up and soon there will be content from the students. Check it out here: http://uwcomicstheory.blogspot.ca
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