The BBC recently announced there’s a township in England that’s been named as a comics-themed town:
Barrow-in-Furness has been named the UK’s first “comic book town” in a bid to get more people reading.
Along with a new comic book festival, educational projects in primary schools and community activities will come to the Cumbrian town this year as part of the initiative.
The Lakes International Comic Arts Foundation (LICAF), which leads the project, said its research showed children’s writing and reading ability could increase considerably when comic books were used in the classroom.
LICAF’s director Julie Tait said the campaign recognised “the power of comics to transform reading and creativity”.
“Special educational needs children particularly benefit, comics switch on in their brains in different ways,” she said.
Okay, congratulations on what they’ve achieved. But it’s to be hoped whatever they offer in education will have real value, and won’t be some woke monstrosity that comes off more as indoctrination than education. Otherwise, whatever point this news is supposedly trying to make will be meaningless.
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Avi Green was born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Israel at the age of 9. His first comic was the Fantastic Four. He considers himself a conservative-style version of Clark Kent, and his blog the Four Color Media Monitor is where he says "if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong." His blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong. Follow him on X @AviGreen1
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