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Late Tuesday Tease: COMIC BOOK LITERACY, Using Comics to Promote Reading

The documentary COMIC BOOK LITERACY had a showing at last weekend’s C2E2 in Chicago. This film looks to change the prevalent idea about comics in the USA by using comics as a way to promote literacy.

Just like in animation, comic books in the USA have been relegated to an Age Ghetto. The idea being if you read comics you must be addle-brained or a lazy reader. We’ve heard that countries like Japan and France don’t have the same stigma’s attached to their comic book lovers.

Back in the 80s is when Wednesday became the happiest day of the week for us. The influence of The X-Men’s resident sesquipedalian, Hank McCoy aka The Beast, is immeasurable. Fans of Chris Claremont‘s work in the 80s understands how this works.

Hopefully COMIC BOOK LITERACY will expand the US audiences perception about comics or, at the very least, help them pull the stick out.

Check out the COMIC BOOK LITERACY trailer below the jump.

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Tuesday Tease: On the Madness, or Sanity, of Sarah Winchester

We’re taking information on faith today. Currently computer systems in the Groonk Nation have been rendered mute. Translation: we can’t hear a damn thing. All the lovely sounds of internet are dulled and quiet. This will not stop blind posting and adoration, of course.

Fabled artist @templesmith shared a comics trailer of curious interest. The visuals were good enough to share on that alone. For all we know it could be hurling obscenities through your speakers/headphones in 12 different languages with detailed instructions on how best to act out each part. This is the best way to imply that whatever you’re hearing, we won’t be held accountable.

UPDATE: So the damn thing’s a silent piece. Pity. We were kind of sad it didn’t feature various obscenities.

Dan Vado and Drew Rausch are working on a new series called Winchester, which is about wealthy widow Sarah Winchester and the insane house she built, and built, and built, over the course of 38 years in San Jose, Calif. Legend has it that the house was haunted by the ghosts of all the people killed with Winchester rifles, and the only way to appease them was for the house to be continuously under construction.

(via ben templesmith)

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