For this week’s session, the FIG discussed their upcoming book project that will highlight their appreciation of Graphic Novels and how it can be used in the classroom.
As of right now, this is the current status/lineup of the book:
Donna-Lyn Washington: Science Fiction/Black Bodies, 5K Teen Titans/New Mutants, 5K Comics, Green Lantern, 5K Race, Memory and Identity in House of Whispers, Gender Performativity/ 5K, Wakanda’s Women’s in Comics 5K
Patrick Hickey Jr.: Intro/Preface
Dungeons and Dragons/Flowers for Algernon
Wild Rover/Anthropologist on Mars
The Killing Joke/One Flew Over, Bull
Ashizah Shah: M. Night Shalamon/Unbreakable/Epic Myths Hefestus
Gene McQuillan: Gatsby and Fun Home.
Sul Larokko: Toy Story
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Once upon a time, Patrick Hickey Jr. was a student at Kingsborough and over the next ten years, went on to become the Editor-In-Chief of both Kingsborough's student newspaper, Scepter and Brooklyn College's Kingsman. After college, Hickey freelanced for publications such as the New York Daily News, the New York Times, The Syracuse Post-Standard and Complex Magazine. He has also held editorial and senior writer positions at local newspapers and publications the likes of Bay Currents, New York Sports Day and NBC's Integrated Media division. Currently, Hickey is a Full-Time Lecturer of English and Journalism at Kingsborough, as well as the Editor-In-Chief and Founder of ReviewFix.com and a National Video Games writer at Examiner.com. He has also taught Multimedia Journalism at Brooklyn College, instructed at John Jay College and represents Kingsborough on the City University of New York Journalism Discipline Council. 
