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Marveling at The Man Called Nova: Comics as Sponsors of Multimodal Literacy

2007; National Council of Teachers of English; Volume: 59; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.58680/ccc20076391

1939-9006

Dale Jacobs,

Digital Storytelling and Education

This essay theorizes the ways in which comics, and Marvel Comics in particular, acted as sponsors of multimodal literacy for the author. In doing so, the essay demonstrates the possibilities that exist in examining comics more closely and in thinking about how literacy sponsorship happens in multimodal texts.