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# McLuhan and Ong Would Be Proud
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/868/
- Published: 2005-05-04T20:27:47.000Z
- Updated: 2005-05-04T20:27:47.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong recognized the legitimacy of comics. Today, they're back on the rise.

> The push for comics has produced an interesting set of bedfellows. A collaboration of artists, teachers and scholars, the National Association of Comics Art Educators, is distributing study guides and lesson plans that include "An Aesthetic History of Comics."

> And a Columbia University professor is leading a 10-city, after-school project that gives 30,000 students, from elementary school through high school, a chance to have their own comic books professionally published.

> In previous editions, students have tackled AIDS and the plight of Tibet, among other issues.

> "Kids are writing about very real topics," says Michael Bitz, a senior research associate at Columbia's Teachers College and the founding director of the Comic Book Project. It began in 2001 at an after-school program in Queens, N.Y., and has produced three published student collections.

> "It's become sort of a national movement," he says. "It's really been fantastic."

[Link](http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050504/en%5Fbo%5Fusatoday/teachersaregettinggraphic;%5Fylt=AvuGoyuyA1rcRjdlA%5F1a1j9xFb8C;%5Fylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

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