Comics can be for everyone!

 

McCloud was very inspiring all though it did seem like he had so many points that he was wanting to cross that he ran out of time and I really didn’t get his main point. I think that it is awesome that he is so inspired and passionate about the comic book subjects because it is important for everyone to have their own reading preferences. McCloud kept repeating over and over examples of people form the past that “understood the shape of the future” He used these examples to relate to how he knew back then that comics were the way of the future. McCloud also goes to make a point of “three types of vision; 1-The unseen 2-The seen and can be proven 3-The seen but may be based off of knowledge but is unproven” I think that this was interesting and I wish that he would have expanded on this idea more so that the audience knew more about what he was talking about. He also made a comment that I will probably use in my classroom because it was so inspiring. He said “Learn from everyone, Follow no one, Watch for patterns and Work like hell.” I think that it is important to learn from one another to shape who we are as individuals and we do this through learning and we learn through literature and you have to read literature. Everything begins with reading. Even though I do not find comics interesting to read I know that this will be the perfect stepping stone for a struggling student. Just to get their noses in a book and get into the routine of starting and finishing a book.

Versaci’s article was one for the books. I definitely have saved this article for my later use as a future teacher. I think that this teacher really knows what it takes to get young men and women to love what they are reading. I think that this article is a lot like the Reading in the Wild book because it challenges us as teachers to go ahead and do something out of the ordinary and to work at making literature and the way we view it differently. I am guilty of being someone who associates every comic strip to the superhero magazine type books you get from the local convenient store. Never have I ever thought that you could form books and series from comic strips. I have changes the way that I look at the comic books and am looking forward to learning more about them so that I can efficiently work with this type of stuff in my own classroom. “Just as misinformed are people who associate comic books with any one type, such as a superhero comic. But many writers and artist have addressed topics relevant to all levels of English classrooms, making comic books an ideal and largely untapped source of enrichment.”