Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Comics in the Library?!
Back in ye olde days of comics, when Gaines was still running his All-American line and before starting EC, comics at teast pretended to be educational. Quite often, Gaines would slip in 2 or 3 page bios of historical personages. As I recall, the serial was titled Wonder Women of History in both his Sensation and Wonder Woman comics. Bios of famous fliers would often appear along with Hop Harrigan stories.
Heck, he even published full comics of bios (along with Picture Stories from the Bible).
I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to gather these short bios into a juvi/young adult readers advisory book/folder for when the kids come up and need to write a paper on someone, but have no klew as to who they might find interesting.
Back in ye olde days of comics, when Gaines was still running his All-American line and before starting EC, comics at teast pretended to be educational. Quite often, Gaines would slip in 2 or 3 page bios of historical personages. As I recall, the serial was titled Wonder Women of History in both his Sensation and Wonder Woman comics. Bios of famous fliers would often appear along with Hop Harrigan stories.
Heck, he even published full comics of bios (along with Picture Stories from the Bible).
I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to gather these short bios into a juvi/young adult readers advisory book/folder for when the kids come up and need to write a paper on someone, but have no klew as to who they might find interesting.
# posted by Alexi Sivana : 10:50 AM
