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Don Jackson teaches "the art of sequential storytelling" as a constructivist pedagogical method to help students develop higher-order thinking skills. His "Cognitive Comics" approach grew from Jackson's original enterprise of developing interactive multi-media comics for promoting literacy in teaching English comprehension.

Scott McCloud's official webite, with links to his speaking engagments and the livejournal blog his family contributes to as well as news about his projects and appearances.

J. Caleb Mozzocco is a freelance writer based in Columbus, Ohio. This is his delightful blog that is mostly about comic books.

Todd Hignite's text for the Abrams' pretty The Art Of Jaime Hernandez is like the best testimonial ever written for a fancy tribute dinner, the kind of speechifying that makes you tear up a little bit in shared love for the subject of its adoration. One reads a lot of writing about cartoonists, but very little of it makes you want to shake the writer's hand, as is the case here. The love that many comics fans have for the work of Jaime Hernandez may be unique in comics because he's an artist that brings out that emotion in people that I would suggest are largely distrustful if not outright contemptuous of how frequently such feelings are expressed on behalf of so many other artists working in the medium. Jaime is a a comics artist people that find it hard to love artists love. Further, I think that people love Jaime for all the usual reasons one may love a comics artist, and then some folks love him a little more for all the reasons they love a great artist working any medium, and then a few folks love him that much more for being the avatar of a certain kind of relationship to comics, growing in seriousness of intent and human scope just as they were ready to read stories like that.