College Composition and Communication Dec 2007

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

Dale Jacobs

Abstract

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.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2007-12-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20076391
Open Access
Closed
Topics
literacy studies multimodality

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