
Mid-March 2009
Features:
Op-Ed: Watchmen Being Taught at High School
How do kids learn? What engages them to respond and take an active part in their own educations? Those are questions teachers have struggled with for as long as there have been schools. When one teacher finds something that works --- and works incredibly well --- it’s important to share it. That’s exactly what John Weaver has done in a new Op-Ed where he shares the wonderful reaction he’s had to teaching Watchmen in his high school classes. Even better, he shares how other teachers can learn from him and replicate his success in their own schools.
Recent Blog Posts:
The Times, They Are A-Changin'...for the Better
Swallow Me Whole Nominated for LA Times Prize
A Special Watchmen Screening in New York
Creator Interviews
Chris Meloni
Chris is best known as Stabler from the hit TV show "Law & Order: SVU," but this year, he’s off to protect the universe as the greatest Green Lantern of all time, Hal Jordan. The actor discusses the upcoming animated movie in this exclusive interview.
Robert Venditti
Robert discusses the inspiration behind his bleak sci-fi book The Surrogates in this insightful interview. Plus, we give our readers a look inside the upcoming sequel to The Surrogates, coming this summer!
Chris Duffy
Chris is the senior editor of Nick Magazine and the man behind their upcoming comics awards. So what do these awards mean for kids and what does it mean for the industry? Find out Chris’s take here.
Fiction Reviews:
Sulk
Jeffrey Brown returns with a new series that anthologizes some of his favorite little things: overblown superheroes, mixed martial arts, and other guy stuff. You don't have to have grown up reading comics to get the jokes --- well, maybe you do. And if you did, you'll probably enjoy Sulk.
Fire Investigator Nanase
A shadowy arsonist is both mentor and menace to a young fire investigator in this well-paced manga, which reads like a firefighter's version of "CSI" --- but with exploding cars. Good reading for those who enjoy locked-room mysteries and science trivia.
Tamara Drewe
Graphic novel fans endlessly debate the book that's the perfect introduction to illustrated sequential storytelling for the uninitiated. Some say that Watchmen will persuade nonbelievers of the awesomeness of the genre, but for many grownups, the appeal of superheroes remains elusive. For them, Tamara Drewe may more than suffice.
Nonfiction:
Why I Killed Peter
Years after enduring abuse at the hands of a family friend, a priest named Peter, Olivier Ka comes to terms with what happened to him and how it's affected his entire life. His catharsis is powerful and vivid yet wonderfully understated at the same time.
I Live Here
To say that I Live Here is a unique endeavor would be a gross understatement. It is an epic undertaking that spans a wide array of artistic techniques, ranging from fiction and nonfiction texts to graphic novellas to scrapbook art to combinations hard to classify, all with the honorable purpose of bringing four far-reaching places on the planet into the homes of readers and offering a glimpse at the personal tales of people living under dire circumstances.
Safe Area Garozde
Safe Area Garozde is an important tale in modern history told by a one-of-a-kind journalist. It is nothing short of a masterpiece in both the profession of journalism and the medium of comics.





