Comic Boom - Comics in Education

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I chat with writer and school librarian Lucas Maxwell . Lucas Maxwell has been reading comics since he was very young and living in Nova Scotia, Canada. Now, he gets to promote comics and other great books to kids in the high school library that he's  managed in South London, UK for the past nine years.  He's also a writer for Book Riot, a D&D Dungeon...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Harriet Earle (Hattie) is a senior lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University and research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at the University of Nipissing. She is the author of Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017) and Comics: An Introduction (2020) – and she writes mostly on war and violence. In this episode we explore some of the historical...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I chat with award winning comics creator, Neill Cameron . Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and writer, creator of the comic books Mega Robo Bros ,   Since 2011 his work has appeared in the weekly children’s comic The Phoenix . In 2016 Mega Robo Bros and Tamsin and the Deep were both shortlisted for the British Comics Awards . In 2017, Mega Robo Bros won the Excelsior...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I chat with Gemma Sosnowsky about all things comics in the school library. Gemma is an experienced school librarian and member of the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival board, as well as judge on the Excelsior Award and, in this episode, shares lots of practical advice on how to maximise the use of comics in your school library. Links to everything  discussed,...