We don’t need just the DFC, we needs lots of comics, and what’s more, we can make them. Let’s get to it!

Gibson, Mel (2010) We don’t need just the DFC, we needs lots of comics, and what’s more, we can make them. Let’s get to it! Inis Magazine (33). pp. 19-23.

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Abstract

Comics have too often been dismissed as unsophisticated, popular culture texts or as a phase of reading which children are encouraged to move out of towards more ‘worthy’ literary fare. Mel Gibson, in exploring the recent comics-book initiative by David Fikling, The DFC, defends the attraction and value of comics culture and the complexity of its multimodal narratives.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: W800 Imaginative Writing
W900 Others in Creative Arts and Design
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
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Depositing User: EPrint Services
Date Deposited: 31 Aug 2011 08:10
Last Modified: 17 Dec 2023 16:01
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/249

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