42 episodes
Comic Boom - Comics in Education Lucy Starbuck Braidley
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An education podcast exploring the use of comics in education. Each episode I’ll be joined by a special guest from a wide range of backgrounds, from passionate education professionals to academics and industry experts. I'll be exploring a wide range of perspectives in the search for information and inspiration. Listen in if you’d like to grow your understanding of the theory behind comics, discover the most effective approaches to using comics and graphic novels in your classroom and gain inspiration from passionate comics creators.This season of Comic Boom is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society! Find out more about their work at www.alcs.co.uk
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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Athens Comics Library's Lida Tsene
Send us a Text Message.In this week's episode Lucy chats to passionate comics advocate Lida Tsene. Lida is Head of PR, Art and Educational Programs of Comicdom Con Athens, founder of the Athens Comics Library, managing co-director of the Digital Comics Museum, organiser and curator of several events, exhibitions, conferences and workshops. Currently, she is a researcher and teaching associate at the MA Program Communication and New Journalism of Open University of Cyprus, at the MA Cult...
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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with writer Swapna Reddy
Send us a Text Message.In this episode Lucy talks to writer Swapna Reddy (who you may know as Swapna Haddow!).Swapna Haddow is the multi award-winning children’s author of the Dave Pigeonseries, published by Faber & Faber. The Dave Pigeon series has received rave reviews since first publishing in 2016 and went on to win three regional awards in the UK and was shortlisted for the prestigious Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award.Swapna loves to write about boisterous animals that cause mayhem ...
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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Chie Kutsuwada and Julian Sedgwick
Send us a Text Message.In today’s episode Lucy is joined by a wonderful creative duo - Chie Kutsuwada and Julian Sedgwick. Chie is UK based Japanese manga creator and illustrator. Chie graduated from Royal College of Art, London, and since then has carved out a successful career in illustration. She creates her own illustrated stories and comics strips, as well as working on titles like the manga version of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (SelfMadeHero, London). Chie also regularly ru...
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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Clare McGreevy and Chris Mould
Send us a Text Message.In this episode Lucy chats with educator Clare McGreevy and illustrator Chris Mould about an innovative comic project involving schools across Rochdale, developing reading for pleasure through comics and also supporting the creation of comics - through re-imagining the untold stories of the historic Rochdale Town Hall. Clare McGreevy is an Advisory Teacher for Reading in Rochdale Council’s Virtual School. Prior to this, Clare had been a teacher, English Lead and Ph...
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Comic Boom - Comic in Education - with 'Star Cat' and 'I Hate Pixies' creator James Turner
Send us a Text Message.In this episode Lucy chats with writer and comics creator, James Turner.James is a cartoonist and writer, creator, with illustrator Yasmin Sheikh. As well as Star Cat, his comic strip Clatters and Bump regularly appears in weekly comic The Phoenix.James joins me to talk about his new graphic novel Toby and the Pixies: Worst King Ever! illustrated by Andreas Schuster is out on 6 June 2024.James's recommendation for this episode:The Left Hand of Darkness by Ur...
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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with author and professor Nick Sousanis
Send us a Text Message.In this episode Lucy chats to professor and author Nick Sousanis.Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he started and runs a Comics Studies program. He received his doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2014, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. Titled Unflattening, it argues for the importance o...