Comic Boom - The Comics in Education Podcast: Yo Comics! A Comics Fair for and by Kids!

About this episode

In this episode, Lucy discusses the Yo Comics fair with its co-directors, focusing on comics in education.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Lucy is joined by Helen Jones and Hannah Lee Miller, the Co-Driectors of Yo Comics - a Comics Fair for and by Kids, run in South London at Stanley Arts. Helen Jones is a lecturer in Primary Education at UCL Institute of Education and a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths. Alongside Lucy Starbuck Braidley, she has written a soon to be published book about comics in the classroom. Helen edited the book Children’s Literature In Action and has published her work academica...

People in this episode

Host: Lucy Starbuck Braidley

Guests: Helen Jones, Hannah Lee Miller

Topics covered

• comics
• education
• children's literature
• comics fair
• primary education

Keywords

• comics
• education
• children
• fair
• primary education
• UCL
• Goldsmiths

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UCL Institute of Education, Goldsmiths

Books & works: Children’s Literature In Action

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