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Something to Consider on the Eve of Comic-Con: Cosplay and Critical Thinking
"We can look at cosplay as a medium that assists other media, anime and manga, by targeting a certain audience segment related to fandom."
Confessions of a Cosplaying Librarian
"The key idea is actually a media literacy one related to representation: no one in real life actually looks like an anime or manga character."
Moriarty, Hannibal, and Despicable Me: How We End Up Rooting for the Bad Guy
It's okay to find the villain appealing in certain respects—in fact, much of pop culture depends on our doing just that.
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‘Super Pop!’ and Making (Extremely Fun) Connections Across Media
Quick, what do these have in common... the 'dingy basements' in 'Fight Club' (the film), the video game Flower, a couple of novels by Harumi Murakami and E.L. Konigsburg, the bathroom in HBO’s 'Girls,' Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s 'Empire State of Mind,' and Homer's 'The Odyssey'?
Book Giveaway: Informational Text Par Excellence… ‘American Comic Book Chronicles’
So does this sound like something that could get the teen and tween comics fans you know into nonfiction? Sure it does.
Why At First I Didn’t Think I Could Write About ‘Citizen Hearst’
So why am I so on the fence about recommending this well-produced and often engaging film?
Five Simple Things It’s Easy to Overlook About Comics
At ALA Midwinter, one of the people in attendance asked how many librarians in the audience still encounter opposition from parents, teachers, or school administrators in promoting and collecting comics. I was astounded to see the majority of the librarians in the audience raise their hands.
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