James Bucky CarterJames Bucky Carter is an award-winning scholar and a leader of the comics-and-education revitalization currently underway. He is the editor of Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel, for which he was awarded te first Excellence in Graphica in Education Award in 2009, and the forthcoming Rationales for Teaching Graphic Novels. He has published articles on comics and literacy in The ALAN Review, English Journal, Educational Leadership, ImageTexT, and Classroom Notes Plus; has written comics-related lesson plans for ReadWriteThink.org; and has written chapters on the subject for books in print or forthcoming books for Corwin Press, the Modern Language Association, NCTE, and Greenwood Press. He maintains a blog on all things sequential art and education-related: http: //www.ensaneworld.blogspot.com. An experienced classroom teacher, Carter speaks to teachers across the country on how to use comics in the classroom. He is an assistant professor of English education at the University of Texas at El Paso. Read More Read Less