The Myth of the Student Hero and the “Dreaded Lit Review”

Acknowledgements

I am much indebted to Susan Gardner Archambault and Melanie Hubbard of the William H. Hannon Library for their support and many contributions, both in terms of the creation of this book and sending it into the cosmos. Also, thanks to others affiliated with the William H. Hannon Library, including Library Dean Kris Brancolini, and librarians Jenn Masunaga and Rhonda Rosen.

Thanks to the many students who created comics in my courses. I thank them for their willingness to try their hand at comics and for letting their comics be displayed and published. In particular, I thank the students whose images grace this book, including Carina Adra, Nouf AlMarzook, Sean Baker, Jade Byrd, Lauren Delisle, Claire Dobyns, Valente Dolcini, Justice Domingo, Alexandra Fiore, Nicole Franko, Christina Gallo, Quinn Heinrich, Madeleine Jones, Qinglan Li, Liat Lieberman, Amanda Martinez, Kateri Milanesa, Emily Moore, Leah Morris, Maria Nelson, Jordan Philips, Madelyn Ryan, Renee Samuelson, Scarlett Sanchez, Juliet Sivori, Willow Wittliff, and Chandler Wright.

Many thanks to Keith Tucker, who has influenced my interest in images and graphic storytelling through our collaborative partnership on a graphic novel.

Thanks to Professor Holli Levitsky, who invited me to co-teach a course, Jewish Graphic Novels, which led to my decision to have students create comics.

Thanks to Julie Patterson and Loyola Marymount University’s Institutional Research Board, who helped me with the process of developing research proposals that allowed me to conduct research on students’ comics.

Thanks to Professor Michele Hammers and Lisa Lugo, who have supported and scheduled me to teach courses about comics and graphic novels.

Thanks to Professor Judy Battaglia, who sends me links to online comics.

Thanks to CFA Dean Bryant Keith Alexander and Associate Dean Judy Scalin for supporting my scholarship, and creative work. And Rachel Van Houten, for giving me articles and books on comics and graphic novels.

Thanks to Professor Jane Brucker for her support of the Student Comix Show, which presented 40 of my students’ comics, which was hosted by the Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery. And to Professor Molly Corey and her class for curating the show. And to Professor Gino Brancolini for creating the video about the show.

Special thanks to Professor Susie McDaniel, my wonderful life partner, and spouse, for our numerous conversations, her editing, her ideas about this project, and her support of my interest in comics. And to our dogs Brigit and Molly, who may someday be characters in their own comic.

Special thanks to my dad and mom, Bob and Barbara Scheibel, and my brother Ian Scheibel, and my sister, K.C. Fox, for their support of my research and interest in comics and graphic novels.

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