This post was updated Oct. 26 at 7:27 p.m. Most book talks hinge on their words. But for Jillian Tamaki, sharing her work was all about the slideshow. On Tuesday, the English and gender studies ...

Tom Kealey has taught a lot of writing classes at Stanford University, but never one that asked students to consider the dramatic pause provided by the "page flip." Or how wide to draw "the gutter." ...

Comic books, graphic novels, sequential art narratives—call them what you want, but the words-and-pictures genre is here to stay. Slowly but surely, graphic novels are becoming more widely accepted as ...

Mat Johnson leans back in his chair as 10 of his students dissect a short piece about a group of unlikable friends. Though the discussion intensifies, he remains calm in his long sleeve T-shirt and ...