book but before say anything this are
please the show of hands how many of you
up here how many of many of you in here
have read a comic book before right good
numbers awesome now this time just shout
out the words or the first thing that
comes to your mind when you hear the
word comic book keep going keep going
alright so from what I can write here I
here love supers name for some reason
your vegetables and as well as well
entertainment and kids which is
understandable since when we look at the
comic book we see pictures and small
Texas that we think Oh simple there’s
nothing education about them nor they
are for us yes once I look at them I see
that in the images and in those texts
people meaning within them is what I am
you to tell you why we should take comic
book more seriously now before I asked
you all to join me into the geek side of
things you have to know as a comic book
reader myself I am considered to be
dorky which is great there’s code book
readers or socially isolated being dorky
and Kiki I’m proud of it so how do ask
you to join me in the dorks I’d find out
how great code book can be in doing so I
would like to tell you my origin story
it all started back in 2008 when my
parents took me to the premiere of
Ironman back then I was at eight years
old Todd we didn’t know much about
I sit down with a pale face another
movie ray but then I said watch my
expression changes it came from hell and
not expressive to this I was so pumped
because all the action and how this guy
just pulled a suit of armor we’ll check
the world no I went home I did a little
digging Wikipedia of course and I found
out that he is the comic book readers so
so to read comic books years past I was
reading also a book from Marvel to DC
and to some weird Japanese manga which
I’m not going to but I would not take
them as seriously if I should have
accidentally still find them
entertaining and just as time then this
way for me to feel time it wasn’t until
2015 where my where I take it seriously
as I am now when my friends invited me
to a competition
Oh gross scholar cop it is a debate team
competition where each year the team
changes and in 2015 where it was hosted
in Malaysia the theme at that time was
superheroes I guess for sure I knew
everything all the fact that superheroes
I knew was in my head and though they
gave us free materials and know
everything even know that Superman was a
Krypton where he was not actually the
last man of Krypton I actually have a
dog and a sister even parents somewhat
though what got me excited done me was
the questions they asked the proper they
asked me to make connection with the
comics to a real world how the problem
in the comics that are happening
actually is the one that we are facing
right now so having been done and being
challenged and we read all those comic
series I have read in the past
I discovered three things and made me
change my perspective on comic book
number one they are a reflection of our
world now how many of you here have
heard of Captain America before good
as you know Captain America is a super
super soldier so so many knighted States
and that you look more to his history
you will see that back in World War two
he was the Uncle Sam or the patriotic
icon for the United States that tells
the story of war through the pages of
comic books as kids my age in the living
room they can read through the comic
books and see what’s going on in the war
at the actual time where the Battle of
the we thought that America’s us and
about how they want and how the war
changes and Captain America was a way
for the offer to tell those stories in
the real world for us he was always
being informed with what’s going on
second it makes Big Ideas smaller now I
presume you are no x-men and if you’ve
seen the x-men movies of who in a comic
book you see that they are in Google
mutants who have extraordinary powers
and especially one thing they look
different from us then those pages of
comics they were discriminative how they
look and how they act you see any
familiar with it you see that kind of
resemble still right movement but when
x-men was created the Civil War was
occurring and the offers of excellence
were actually using them as a reference
to what’s going on and connecting the
big idea of African American population
at that time which read differently from
publish of the United States they were
discriminated and that they were treated
in horrific ways that people don’t know
when kids my age read this idea they
were able to understand the idea of
equality in their minds being planted
with that we have a fundamental idea and
a concept and what to come to be a large
world problems and yet so in the page of
comics we’re tackling the appalling
problem we’re still facing them in a
real world now even though the idea of
body
change then getting ideas and messages
from comic book isn’t know isn’t so
difficult actually really hard it would
take high-level analysis incredible team
your skills
you understand the pictures and the
words that coming out of the comic book
which is why I wake up of readers read
these things they require a high level
of analysis skills dribbling co2
understand that I have the pictures of
here of the code cover see tickle
ability a cold a Marvel characters as
well I look at them think what’s going
on to this guy so right now what’s going
through in our mind or better yet what’s
the big idea that the author is trying
to tell through this girl now keep that
might get up on your head I’ll tell you
what I see from this picture because
from well I think a small girl who being
trapped she has no way to escape even
though she is like of the room though
there might be a bit of hope for its
presence in hell and though she knows
nothing going on they even look closer
you see all come off her head I’ll be in
a medal to just from this one page well
understand the entire idea as you read
look carefully to see the entire her
entire storyline understand the eye
thick idea behind each character’s I
know this character is called X 23 or
Laura and a clone of Wolverine razor
close and I want to tell you that she is
a symbol for child abuse she did not get
this cloth or this metal gelatin from
nature because I’m from experiment
ruling
now imagine that idea being headed in
those comments that people over the
world are reading these ideas now if
they were able to understand these
messages from the page of comic they
might do something about it it may be
inspired may be empowered to do
something about this problem because
whatever is coming to this girl right
now that may actually happen to the girl
someone out there in the world
which is what the purpose of book is a
way for the author to inspire to empower
the readers do something about the
problems they are facing right now I
have told you all the reasons for why we
should take comfort seriously a section
of our world and that group on critical
thinking skills make Big Ideas simpler
yes am I still talking if they’re here
blah blah blah blah our comic book
storyline yes and still here this I said
look among the crowd I can see that none
of you are convinced now if you will
convince a comic book or more and just
for entertainment and for kids they are
a way for offers send out their message
to the audience in just a different way
they are a form of expression just like
novels in text book now pictures the
Belling of historical events such as
this one if painting this tell a story
of a historic event called
the storming of the Bastille which occur
in the French Revolution of this
painting you can see that there’s a war
that’s arisen going on and that the
people are rising up storming bushes
perhaps though you might not have the
background knowledge of the French
Revolution know what’s going on you can
look at this picture carefully analyze
them getting the take idea with this
picture is a form of expression which
occur a lot in historical text books
which is what all textbook and novels
and comics yes they are format
expression they’re equivalent to each
other there’s no reason for us to
exclude them from being entertainment
now most immediate aining textbook can
be entertaining to a physics teacher can
find a textbook entertaining through the
idea and concept a math teacher can look
at formula and see wow this is really
good even though our student may not
understand what the heck that means or
from a novel where literature’s teachers
look at them and see as a message that
that Shakespeare is trying to tell us
it’s coming book – both of them are a
form of expression and try are their
best to tell the readers what’s going on
and what the idea are being transferred
to the people so I wish to tell you why
not to exclude them from novels and
textbook they’re both educational they
have four purposes just as each other
now you might hear me talking and I’m my
age I might not know yet then thing is
believing I wish I challenge you all
today
koko may go to a bookstore as well go to
the southwest ed comic book I pick up
one read it carefully and see them
through with different lens and that’s
what my teacher out there if the next
time you think of giving us a five page
reading on economic think again you
might give us a comic book instead thank
you [Applause]