I’m preparing to speak tomorrow at KSS, the KIPP charter school network’s national conference, about making and reading educational comic books in the classroom. Over 2000 KIPP and non-KIPP teachers regularly attend (http://kipp.org/00/kss2011/) so it should be an...

The following post has been written, by Bennardo, an artist from Namibia. It is extremely inspirational, so please read if you get a chance! His beautifully created comic book can be found here: Omazimo At the age of 12, I began to draw my very first comic “ Ms...

EZ Comics has partnered with the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University for a new, exciting comic book competition! Anyone who creates a minimum 5-page comic book about religious tolerance will be eligible to win a free iPad or iPhone. Many prizes...

We had an extremely successful comic book competition focused on religious tolerance with entries from 7 countries worldwide. More than anything else, we were very impressed by the book quality. In this next series of blog posts, we would like to highlight some of the...

One of the simplest, yet most touching, entries that we received was from Lorelei Shannon, a rising junior at Spring Woods High School. Lorelei’s book,  titled “Fine Foreign Friend” tells of a Jewish exchange student (from Israel) who comes to the United States for...

The most extensively and effectively researched submission we received was by Farrah Madanay, a student at Rice University. In her book, Farrah tells the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust....