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Comics in the Classroom: Teaching Democracy

For Immediate Release

With a comic book designed to help educators teach their students about democracy and governance, CCS cartoonists are visiting classrooms in the Midwest this fall.

White River Junction, VT, September 16, 2019 — The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey finds that only 26% of Americans can name all three branches of government. The Mikva Challenge and The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), two non-profit organizations, are teaming up to increase that number.

This is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance is a 32-page comic book that will be distributed to classrooms in Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, and more this fall. This comic book is the result of a collaboration of educators and word-class cartoonists and is designed to help teachers who are working hard to prepare students to be empowered, informed, and civic-minded. At each school, CCS instructors will give away comics and work with teachers to help students gain a deeper understanding of how their government works (and doesn’t work) and how they can make a difference in their communities and beyond.

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Dan Nott ′18 on Drawing Democracy

Dan Nott ‘18 is the lead cartoonist on This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a graphic guide to governance. Now on Kickstarter, The Center for Cartoon Studies is working with The Mikva Challenge, a non-partisan non-profit organization working toward a stronger, inclusive democracy, to connect to classrooms. CCS instructors will visit schools to give away comics and work with teachers to help students gain a deeper understanding of their government.

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Cartooning at Civics Summer Institute

Mikva Challenge Action Civics Summer Institute is coming on July 18th and 19th at Loyola University Chicago. As part of the outreach for This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a comic guide to democracy, CCS co-founder James Sturm, Dan Nott ′19, and student Courtney Fehsenfeld will be talking about the project, providing copies of the comic. This class is part of the Mikva Challenge’s immersive program.

Kickstarter Tote Bags

This Is What Democracy Looks Like is currently on Kickstarter through July 31 to fund a tour with workshops and demonstrations. Fund the Kickstarter today to get a tote bag, signed copy of Berlin from Jason Lutes, or one of the other amazing rewards.

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