Thanks to Damiana Gibbons and Ben Devane for pointing me to the fantastic online graphic novels at Zeros to Heroes.  Here’s how their website describes their mission:

Zeros 2 Heroes Media, the “People’s Publisher”, is a Vancouver-based social media company best known for creating Zeros2Heroes.com, a thriving social network that connects thousands of creators, producers and fans of comics in a collaborative and creative environment.

Leading a movement to revolutionize how comics are created and how they reach a mainstream audience, Zeros 2 Heroes members are given the latest web 2.0 tools to showcase their own work or rate, debate and approve the content of others.

Part of the Zeros 2 Heroes mandate is to give its members a voice in shaping the ideas of entertainment studios. Zeros 2 Heroes members recently teamed with Rainmaker Entertainment to redevelop ReBoot, the classic animated episodic television series, into a trilogy of feature-length films.

How cool is that? I’m teaching a young adult lit course this spring, and I was already planning on integrating graphic novels into the curriculum. Now, I’m excited that I can show my undergraduates tools that they (and their future students!) can use to explore narration and visual art through reading and producing graphic novels.  Check out ones like The West Was Lost, Abigail’s War, and many more.

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