Can fandoms fix the gender gap in technology and computing fields? This was the question Jessica McDonald, CMO of SparkFun Electronics, asked at her Sunday SXSW Interactive panel of the same name. Fandoms are communities, often largely online, which come together in mutual admiration of various comics, anime and/or video games. They may share fan-fiction, […]
Stories are powerful, just how and why all depends on the story . Christian Blauvelt is the Deputy Editor for Culture at the BBC. Christian’s thoughts on the new mainstream of comic book movies have a lot to do with the messaging in each film and what comments each of them make about our society. They […]
Waltrip High School math teacher John Baird first began using sequential art comics while he taught literacy soon after leaving college. Students who otherwise resisted writing liked to imagine dialogue and a storyline to go with the pictures and speech balloons and seemed eager to write. It wasn’t long, however, before John was exploring other […]