• Teaching with Comics: A Reading Guide

    In the course of the Drawing on Forced Marriage project, I’ve been doing a fair bit of research on how to teach comics to students, and how to teach students with comics. I’ve really enjoyed the process and have learned such a lot, but I realised that the reading list I’ve been compiling would probably…

  • Get to Know the Team: Emma

    Who are you? I’m Emma, an artist with an interest in human rights, humanitarianism matters, and delving into intricate human-interest narratives. As a public information comic artist, I advocate for critical social issues, leveraging the distinctive storytelling prowess that comics have to offer. By harnessing the potential of art and storytelling, I love the idea…

  • Get to Know the Team: Hannah

    Welcome to ‘Drawing On’, an AHRC-funded project (AH/X004325/1) that explores the ways in which comics can be used to teach difficult topics. We’ve put together this series of little interviews so you can find out more about our team and the project. Who are you? My name is Hannah. I moved from Germany to the…

  • Comics As Educational Tool

    Film, advertisements, the internet – we live in a visual age where we are constantly presented with a vast array of images. Even within a casual chat group between friends, we express ourselves with iconography, peppering our texts with emojis, reaction gifs and memes. It is clear, then, that our students are increasingly immersed in…

  • Coming Soon

    ‘Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics’ is an AHRC funded project (AH/X004325/1) that aims to demonstrate how comics are an ideal medium for teaching secondary school students about difficult topics.