Literacy, mental health, parenting, and the magic of reading — from our team to yours.
4 Apr 2026
In 1943, the U.S. Army used comics to achieve near-universal functional literacy among recruits in eight weeks. Eight decades of academic research has confirmed what the military discovered by accident.
5 Apr 2026
Comics expose readers to 53.5 rare words per thousand — more than children's books and comparable to adult literary fiction. The assumption that comics are linguistically undemanding is false, and it is testable.
11 Apr 2026
In 2010, a free monthly comic appeared at Kenyan kiosks. By 2014, it had five million readers and was generating measurable rural productivity gains. Kenya has not been waiting for a comics-literacy revolution. It has been quietly running one for fifteen years.