Comic Boom - Episode 3 dip into comics history with Dr Hattie Earle

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Dr Harriet Earle (Hattie) is a senior lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University and research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at the University of Nipissing. She is the author of Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017) and Comics: An Introduction (2020) – and she writes mostly on war and violence.

In this episode we explore some of the historical reasons that comics sit on the outskirts of the educational mainstream and discuss their otential, their universality and the possibilites of comics for promoting social justice.

Hattie's book, Comics: An Introduction is available here - and by pdf if you email her!!

Links to everything  discussed, including Hattie's reading recommendations can be found on the podcast padlet.

Follow Hattie on Twitter at  @Harriyot
Host: @Lucy_Braidley
Contact: [email protected]

Music by John_Sib from Pixabay