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I& #39;m taking S.E.& #39;s side on this, and I will tell you why.
My very first design job was working in the comic book industry back in the Eighties. I worked on Lone Wolf and Cub when it first came to the States. I went to parties and sat next to Stan Lee. I got to know EVERYONE. https://twitter.com/se4realhinton/status/1316197957394477058">https://twitter.com/se4realhi...
My very first design job was working in the comic book industry back in the Eighties. I worked on Lone Wolf and Cub when it first came to the States. I went to parties and sat next to Stan Lee. I got to know EVERYONE. https://twitter.com/se4realhinton/status/1316197957394477058">https://twitter.com/se4realhi...
I switched gears, then spent the next 20+ years designing textbooks in the educational industry. My specialty are the "at risk" students and those learners were are not neurotypical. The ENTIRE TIME I was pitching graphic novels into textbooks to get work to my friends. 2/
Educational publishing is just like any other real of publishing in the United States - it is for profit. So when I as a designer would say "hey, we should tell this narrative as a graphic novel" I would get MAJOR pushback. The big reason is "rigor." The argument is this: 3/
The quote I would get back from stakeholders and state school boards: "Teaching w/graphic novels only teaches kids how to read graphic novels. We need to get students prepared for reading the volumes of pages that college requires." -Not- "we need to teach that READiNG IS FUN" 4/
We all know this is wrong yes. Graphic novels do teach that reading is fun and hopefully kids start reading for pleasure. -But- The Outsiders is one of those books that gets students used to the "grind" of plowing their way through reams of text. So I can agree w/Hinton, but 5/
I don& #39;t think this is an all or nothing discussion. Pair reading "The Outsiders" with reading "Love and Rockets" and discuss them in contrast with each other. Pair "The Fade Out" (Brubaker/Phillips) against some Raymond Chandler. The GN format is very specific. 6/
Students do have to learn how to parse big walloping tomes. Students have to build up that endurance. They don& #39;t need to graphic novel "The Outsiders" because it is already accessible, and in the world of narrative fiction, it& #39;s really skiing a bunny hill. 7/
And I just remembered that I worked on "Classics Illustrated" too. Those looked great, but WAY too small. 8/
