Comic Boom - S2 Ep.4 Exploring Manga with Lucy Forrester

05/10/23 • 40 min

A double Lucy episode! This week Lucy chats to specialist Manga librarian from Peters the bookseller, Lucy Forrester.
Lucy Forrester has been a children's librarian since 2006, and a comics fan since she can remember. Working for Peters Booksellers, she has made comics and manga her specialist field, and has taken part in conferences, conventions, and book awards to promote and increase understanding and appreciation of the graphic format.
Lucy shares just a fraction of her expansive knowledge of comics and manga in this episode - there are a whole lot of recommendations and some facinating insight into the history of manga and the industry that surrounds it.
Links to everything discussed, including Lucy's recommendations can be found on the podcast padlet.

Producer and Host: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]

Music by John_Sib from Pixabay

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This week Lucy talks to Natalie Scarlett about Afro Manga Club - a joint project run by The National Literacy Trust and Black Heritage Support Service for young people in Birmingham AND we hear from the young people themselves as the podcast hits the road and visits the club in session (huge thanks to roving reporter and National Literacy Trust Hub Manager Kyle!).
You can find out more about the work of the National Literacy Trust by following the links below:
Website: www.literacytrust.org.ukTwitter: @literacy_trust
Links to everything discussed, including the Amber and Natalie's recommendations can be found on the podcast padlet.

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In this episode Lucy is joined by American educator Shveta Miller.
Shveta Miller is a national literacy leader and serves on the Governor’s Council for
Educator Advancement in Oregon as a professional learning facilitator. A former high school Language Arts teacher and author of Hacking Graphic Novels: 8
Ways to Teach Higher-Level Thinking with Comics and Visual Storytelling, she is a
passionate advocate for using multimodal texts of all kinds to create engaged,
insightful, curious readers and thinkers who are comfortable with the complex.
Contact her at [email protected]
Follow her on Twitter as @ShvetaMiller
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Keep up with her latest articles and resources for teachers by visiting her website www.ShvetaMiller.com.

Links to everything discussed, including Shveta's recommendations can be found on the podcast padlet.

Producer and Host: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education - Comic Boom - S2 Ep.4 Exploring Manga with Lucy Forrester

Transcript

Lucy SB00:01:43.075

Hello and welcome to Comic Boom Lucy.

Lucy Forrester00:01:45.721

Lucy.

Lucy SB00:01:46.868

Now, our starting point for the podcast is always to ask people about their personal journey into becoming a comics reader. Can you cast your mind back? When did that all start for?

Lucy Forrester00:01:56.611

Uh, very, very young. Um, I think pretty much as soon as