comics scholar, library educator, youth advocate
I have compiled a public bibliography about the experiences and demographics of Black comics readers. This initial release includes more than 50 sources – a mix of photographs, theses, journal articles, and more – that provide direct (or really compelling) evidence of the reading experience.
I am a former high school librarian. For more than twenty years I have taught graduate students who plan to work with young people in public and school libraries. I am also a historian who studies the intersection of comics, young readers, and libraries in the US during the mid-20th century. Unsurprisingly the recent surge…
When Barrie Schindler was young, her mother Jane Krom Grammer mentioned to her that she had drawn art for comic books. Jane kept a package filled with several issues of Supersnipe Comics from the mid-1940s and pointed to the Dotty stories in them. But Jane’s name didn’t appear anywhere on the art and there were…