![]() ![]() Essex County is a comic too, but it makes me cringe to think that anyone would put this book in the same category as a regular capes and tights book. Gaiman’s Sandman, Moore’s Watchmen, Ellis’ Preacher, and countless others are clearly upper echelon stuff. That’s not to say that I never encountered comics that elevate the art form before this. In most of their minds, comics are still just kids stuff.īefore reading Jeff Lemire’s Essex County, I was content with calling comics…comics. I don’t know if parents are convinced by my arguments so much as they are won over by my enthusiasm and conviction. And when that resistance rears its head, I have to give the speech about how comics are great for teaching multiple literacies, and they aren’t just for kids anymore (which probably hasn’t been the case since the 60’s), and they truly are well written works of literature. As a teacher who uses comics in the classroom, I still wait for the resistance whenever I inform parents that their child will be reading…Spider-Man in my class. There seems to be a struggle for legitimacy whenever we talk about comics as literature, and I can understand why. Graphic narratives (which sound a little unsavory). ![]()
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