Comics and History: Revivals, Challenges and What’s Next
Betsy Gomez, Amie Wright, Jack Pheonix, Rachel Merrill and Henry Barajas revealed how they got into comics, what history they rediscovered through comics, Henry and Rachel working on the Gil Thorp newspaper comic strip, censorship coming back and the challenges of dealing with it, Henry spoke about not learning Latino and Indigenous history of the state in which he lives (Arizona) and how that lead him to create books on those topics, how to defend comics from banning, why comics terrify some people, recommendations for teaching history with comics.
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