Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Matt Slayter – PCC Education Program Manager Last week, DC Entertainment released their trailer for Batman: Death in the…
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Story Prompts for Tabletop Roleplaying Game Inspiration
Young Adult Graphic Novels You’ll Love By Faith Ojebuoboh , PCC Instructor Running tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPG’s) is fun, but occasionally we as storytellers (aka: Game Masters/Dungeon Masters) struggle to plan or prepare new stories…
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Young Adult Graphic Novels You’ll Love
Young Adult Graphic Novels You’ll Love By Katherine Scott, PCC Instructor Looking for Young Adult Graphic Novels can be intimidating. When I was a teenager, venturing into a comic shop felt like a record scratch,…
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Where to Start with YA Fantasy Literature
Where to Start with YA Fantasy Literature By Katherine Scott, PCC Instructor Five books to start your YA Fantasy Lit Adventure! Listen, when it comes to real life, things are weird right now. Dystopias have…
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Pop Culture Classroom Teams with Mega Manga Publisher VIZ Media for Summer Book Clubs
Colorado nonprofit partners with #1 U.S. manga publisher for #GotManga Summer Book Clubs to unlock educational potential in Japanese-style comics Resources engage kids through popular manga titles like Beastars, Naruto, and My Hero Academia (Denver,…
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6 Anime to Keep Kids Learning Over Summer
6 Anime to Keep Kids Learning Over Summer By Terra Necessary, PCC Instructor Summer vacation makes it easy to sprawl out, throw on an anime, and let the day melt away. Binge-watching is an…
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Quarantine Cosplay: Upping Your Costume Game at Home
Quarantine Cosplay: Upping Your Costume Game at Home By Katherine Scott, PCC Instructor If you’re anything like me, all this time in quarantine means new books, movies, television shows, and developing new skills. I never…
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The Best Tools to Create Your Own Comic
By Dion Harris, Pop Culture Classroom Instructor There are so many reasons to create your own comics – career aspirations, social and emotional learning, literacy building, the love of art and storytelling. And there’s even…
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Children’s Comic Contest
Children’s Comic Contest Pop Culture Classroom is proud to launch our fourth comic book contest for kids! Calling all parents, educators, and comic book fans! Pop Culture Classroom is launching our fourth comic book contest…
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Pop Culture Classroom Launches Fun, New Distance Learning Page
(Denver, April 24, 2020) — Pop Culture Classroom, the Colorado-based educational non-profit and community group behind Denver Pop Culture Con, today launched a new, resource-rich webpage dedicated to distance learning. “So many of us engage…
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How Dungeons and Dragons Can Slay Isolation and Educate
By Faith Ojebuoboh, Pop Culture Classroom Instructor Dungeons and Dragons isn’t just a game — it also helps develop educational and social skills! Using probability to think about the chances by sneaking around a fire-breathing…
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Kids Stuck at Home? Pop Culture Classroom Has Free Comics, Lesson Plans, and More.
(Denver, CO) — As schools and libraries close across the US, Pop Culture Classroom is working to help provide educational content for students in the face of uncertainty over class scheduling. In addition to the…
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Family Fun at Denver Pop Culture Con — and It’s Affordable!
Denver Pop Culture Con 2020 is the place to be for affordable family fun this July 4 weekend. Pop Culture Con a centerpiece of part of our education and community-building work here at Pop Culture…
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Classroom Review of Raina Telgemeier’s Guts
By Madison Greenly Guts, Raina Telgemeier’s highly anticipated graphic novel and companion to Smile and Sisters, was recently released on September 17th. Based on a true story and geared towards an adolescent audience, Guts features…