BW’s Saturday Article Link> The Educational Value Of Comics

Fredrick Wertham will haunt me and this site for as long as we both exist. I took a whole summer just dissecting Seduction Of The Innocent, based on his snobbish beliefs that comics would ruin reading. On the opposite and more logical end of the discussion comes this article from Bleeding Fool contributor Ammie Barger making the case that comics actually improve literacy skills. From my own experience I can’t really tell because I’ve always enjoyed reading in any form, prose or comic, but she makes a better case in one article than he did in an entire book.