With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics<\/i><\/a> is the kind of book that my two co-editors and I have been wanting to draw upon for quite a while. And so we worked\u2014in collaboration with our contributors\u2014to make this particular dialogue about comics and teaching happen.<\/p>\nTaking seriously a comics pedagogy<\/i>, this volume brings together a pretty amazing list of folks from across very different kinds of contexts. However, what we intentionally wanted to do in this book was to put teachers (from K-12 settings to higher ed), comics studies researchers, and comic book creators in dialogue with one another. Some of these are literally conversations\u2014like the interviews conducted with comic book luminaries like Kelly Sue DeConnick, Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker, and Lynda Barry. Some of these are discussions across the histories of comics studies. And some of these are analytical and empirical analyses of teaching with, through, and about comics in various schooling contexts.<\/p>\n
While there is an abundance of interdisciplinary scholarship on the use of comics in learning settings, too often it feels like the knowledge shared in one corner of academia is too distant from the other dimensions of what I find makes comics\u2014and the field of comic studies\u2014so vibrant. We intentionally weave together various styles, approaches, and topics in this book to center the diversity of what comics pedagogy\u00a0means<\/em> and what is it\u00a0for<\/em>.\u00a0 The table of contents for this book is amazing.<\/p>\n![\"Untitled\"](\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49616966601_ec1249aca5_z.jpg\")
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