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I became a voracious comic book reader, but I never brought them to school.
Instinctively, I knew that comic books didn't belong in the classroom.
After all, they never used them to teach, comic books and graphic novels were never allowed during silent sustained reading, and they were never sold at our annual book fair.
Eventually I became a published cartoonist, writing and drawing comic books for a living.
When I was a brand new teacher, I tried bringing comic books into my classroom.
This was the '90s, so comic books didn't have the cultural cachet that they do today.
And even worse, when stuff got hard in my class, they would use comic books as a way of distracting me.
In a comic, past, present and future all sit side by side on the same page.
I wanted to figure out why American educators have historically been so reluctant to use comic books in their classrooms.
This is child psychologist Dr. Fredric Wertham, and in 1954, he wrote a book called "Seduction of the Innocent," where he argues that comic books cause juvenile delinquency.
He spent most of his career working with juvenile delinquents, and in his work he noticed that most of his clients read comic books.
What Dr. Wertham failed to realize was in the 1940s and '50s, almost every kid in America read comic books.
Dr. Wertham does a pretty dubious job of proving his case, but his book does inspire the Senate of the United States to hold a series of hearings to see if in fact comic books caused juvenile delinquency.
They ended inconclusively, but not before doing tremendous damage to the reputation of comic books in the eyes of the American public.
America is finally waking up to the fact that comic books do not cause juvenile delinquency.
There's no good reason to keep comic books and graphic novels out of K-12 education.
But instead, I choose to focus on the activities that I can do through things that I’m passionate about, like scouting, or music, or comic books, or any of my favorite Boston sports teams.
It could be anything from looking forward to the next comic book to come out, or going on a large family vacation, or hanging out with my friends, to going to the next High School football game.
So each time I draw my circle of chalk on the pavement and enter as the improvising comic silent character I created 45 years ago, I am as happy as when I am in the clouds.
This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times.
Mark Lynch, he's an amazing teacher and he's still a dear friend of mine, and I was 14 or 15, and I walked into his comic book class halfway through the course, and I was so excited, I was beaming.
Alison Bechdel is a comic book artist, and back in the mid-'80s, she recorded this conversation she'd had with a friend about assessing the movies that they saw.
Yet this is the kind of movie that I wanted to make ever since I was a kid, really, back when I was reading some comic books and dreaming about what the future might be.
He had this shoebox that he carried with him everywhere containing nine comic books, two G.I. Joes painted to look like Spider-Man and five Gobots.
It's really comic book live.
It's a comic book coming alive.
They're modern myths, these comic book heroes.
And you needn't worry how long the book is, or whether it's a comic strip or an epic.
So I became a comic.
My first gig was driving famous comics from New York City to shows in New Jersey, and I'll never forget the face of the first comic I ever drove when he realized that he was speeding down the New Jersey Turnpike with a chick with CP driving him.
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