Profiles in Literacy Education: Dr. Sophia Sarigianides
1. Please share a bit about your professional and personal journey to literacy and education. Sometimes I see the path as an accident,...
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Feb 5, 20234 min read
An Interview with comics creator Chris Schweizer
1. Please tell us what first drew you to comics. My parents always had comic strip collections in the house, and read the funnies page...
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Feb 3, 20234 min read
An Interview with comics creator Bishakh Som
1. Please tell us what first drew you to comics. When I was a toddler, my parents used to read to me the dialogue from Tintin comics, so...
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Feb 1, 20232 min read
An Interview with comics creator Joe Staton
1. What initially drew you to comics? JS: I’ve always been attracted to comics. I guess it’s the visual approach of telling the story,...
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Feb 1, 20232 min read
An Interview with comics creator Andrea Mutti
1. What drew you to comics? The passion for reading, images, and the possibility of exploring fantastic worlds in the company of...
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Jan 31, 20235 min read
An Interview with comics creator David Petersen
1. What drew you to comics? I really enjoyed 70's X-Men comics (though I was reading reprints with Art Adams' covers) and the original...
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Jan 30, 20233 min read
Profiles in Literacy Education: Dr. Paul Gorski
1. Please share a bit about your professional and personal journey to the world of education. In college as a sociology major, I was...
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Jan 27, 20232 min read
An (updated) interview with comics creator Omaha Perez
1. Please tell us a bit about Bodhisattva: Instant Karma, including any inspirations. Instant Karma follows three very different troubled...
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Jan 20, 20233 min read
An Interview with author Kim O'Hara
1. Please tell us about your book, No Longer Denying Sexual Abuse. I wrote my book because there wasn’t such a book out there for me when...
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Jan 14, 20234 min read
An Interview with author Deborah J. Ross
1. Please tell us a bit about your author journey, including what inspires you to create. I began writing stories around fourth grade,...
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Jan 5, 20233 min read
An Interview with author Roger Danchik
1. For those who haven't read it, please tell us what we should know about Viila and the Doomsday Affair. I explicitly wrote this book...
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Jan 2, 20234 min read
An Interview with author James Hockley
What inspired you to become an author? They say that everyone has a book in them, so I decided to put that theory to the test. Well, I...
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Dec 7, 20223 min read
An Interview with author Eva Wong Nava
1. Please tell us what draws you to write for young audiences. Writing for children is a disciplined craft, I feel, and one that I am...
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Nov 27, 20222 min read
An Interview with comics creator Troy Peteri
1. What initially drew you to comics? Like most comic readers and pros, I fell for comics when I was a kid. My mom was a waitress at the...
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Nov 26, 20223 min read
An Interview with comics creator Andy Belanger
1. What drew you to comics initially? When I was a kid my parents split early. I was six. My father would take me every week to a shop...
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Nov 8, 20222 min read
An Interview with author Adrian Tchaikovsky
What draws you to write science fiction? Honestly, SF and fantasy have a potential for free creation that other genres simply don’t. My...
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Oct 9, 20225 min read
An Interview with author A.S. King
1. What draws you to write for young readers? Young people are far more open to literary structural challenges (my favorite!) and are...
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Oct 8, 20223 min read
An Interview with author Angela Cervantes
Bio: Angela Cervantes is the published author of several children’s novels. Her latest releases include: Lead With Your Heart published...
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Oct 1, 20224 min read
An Interview with author Chris Baron
1. What draws you to write and create for young readers? I have been a college professor for a couple of decades. Students have been and...
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Sep 12, 20223 min read
An Interview with comics creator Dave Kemp
1. What initially drew you to comics? Well, I grew up reading comics... they were 65 cents back then... stuff like X-Men, Gi-Joe etc. In...
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