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Dave Gibbons, bestselling graphic novelist and Watchmen artist, has just been named the UK’s first comics laureate.
The creation of the laureate role, which will go to a comics writer or artist in recognition of their “outstanding achievement” in the field, is just one of a range of activities planned by new charity Comics Literacy Awareness with the intention of improving children’s literacy by raising awareness of the “variety and quality of comics and graphic novels today, particularly in the education sector”. The charity’s board of trustees include publishers, authors, librarians and academics.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/20/dave-gibbons-comics-laureate-child-literacy-watchmen
“In many other countries, comics and graphic novels have been used extensively in literacy drives,” said charity trustee and graphic novelist Bryan Talbot, winner of the 2012 Costa Award for best biography for Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes, on which he collaborated with his wife Mary Talbot. “The sheer accessibility of the medium, the way in which complex information can be easily absorbed through its combination of words and pictures, actively encourages reading in those intimidated by endless blocks of cold print.”
