I really enjoyed participating in the conference. I also want to say thank you to everyone who listened and asked me questions, and thank you for all of the postive feedback I have received about my presentation so far.

I have now added the text of the presentation as comments to each slide on flickr, at the following URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30903051@N05/

I posted the full transcript of the presentation and discussion, along with images here.

We had a very interesting discussion at the Con's Teaching Comics roundtable about the place of criticism in the comics classroom. I believe the moderator argued for excluding professional or scholarly criticism, in order to encourage the discovery and expression of critical reading tools the students already possess.

While I am very much in favor of this, I was also reminded, during Andrew Edward's superb discussion of Alan Moore's background as a cartoonist, that Watchmen is a m… Continue

This is the link to the annotated list of Web Comics Creation Tools that EduPunker Kate Hagerty built for the Web Comics Con. Our afternoon panel was terrific, plus our first presenter had a few technical glitches, so Kate graciously cancelled her session to make more time for the panelists. Many thanks to Kate! But I also know that some of those in attendance really wanted to hear her presentation. So here… Continue

Derik Badman was giving a riveting presentation on the OUBAPO movement in comics when his avatar was raptured. He didn't tell us what it was like to meet Jesus when he came back. And much to our dismay, we had to move on to other presentations without allowing him to finish. Boo-hoo! However, he has posted his entire presentation, with audio, here. Thanks, Derik!

It's worth hearing more than once anyway. I'm going to g… Continue