Before the box office explosion, I grew up reading comics like many young adults of this era. Marvel, DC, Image, and dark horse were just a few in my daily rotation. As a kid I pretty much convinced myself I was Wolverine. The release of new comics each week meant the world to me. Whenever I had a chance, I spent time at the local comic store whisking through comic books like a speed reader. It got to the point that the clerk knew me by name. If I didn’t have a comic in my hand then I had a trading card. Trading cards were also a big deal at the time. Although you couldn't flip through cards like comic books, the cool thing was that they were hand held which became a passage to trading amongst “comic heads”. Also you could get to know a little more about your favorite hero or villain by just a flip to the back of the card. We all had good memories surrounding comics and bad ones (I should have never traded that Fleer Ultra special card!!!). Not all parents understood the coolness of it all it but, they saw the importance they held to us. So, why not encourage comics to your kids? Everything a book offers is there and more. This is the core of the criticism that revolves around comic books and there readers. Basically the “experts” say that they lack an educational approach to learning and are not as effective as literature books. So they say…till now.
Read what professor Carol L. Tilley has to say in this report (click on title to read more):
"For improving early literacy, reading comics is no child's play"
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