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.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2007-12-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20076391
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multimodality literacy studies
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  1. Peter et al. (2020)
    “Figure 4, Peyote”: Comics and Graphic Narrative in Anarchist Cookbooks, 1971-Present
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Sánchez (2020)
    Examining Methectic Technical Communication in an Urban Planning Comic Book
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  3. Walters (2010)
    Toward an Accessible Pedagogy: Dis/ability, Multimodality, and Universal Design…
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  4. Alexander (2007)
    Reciprocal Literacy Sponsorship in Service-Learning Settings
    Literacy in Composition Studies

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