ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a few contemporary individuals who have made an impact on bringing comics education to a wider audience. Ray Browne documented in Against Academia how comics were being studied and presented when the Popular Culture Movement, in academic circles, was in its infancy. This was also a time when studying anything related to popular culture was often suspect and looked down upon by much of higher education. Uslan discusses everything from comics, including folklore, history, cultural mirrors to our society, contemporary relevance, psychological relationships, other media and comics, comics as art, censorship, the educational potential of comics, and how comics are created. These are just a few of the pioneering educators and innovators in comics studies surveyed for "Comic Book Project". Teaching comics provided a mirror into humanity's collective memory, and it was worth fighting for its justification. It's hard to imagine that there is still some resistance in higher education to the study of sequential art.
