2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Nominations OpenFor Immediate Release: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021Contact: Chris Burley, c.burley [at] popcultureclassroom.org Annual Awards Honors the Best in Fiction and Nonfiction Graphic Novels Publishers and creators can...

6 Tips and Tricks for Being a Great Dungeon MasterEach February, we celebrate the essential contributions of the African diaspora to our shared American experience during Black History Month. Pop Culture Classroom has created free original comics and shareable...

6 Tips and Tricks for Being a Great Dungeon MasterBy: Faith Ojebuoboh, PCC instructor As someone who’s been playing tabletop games for about 7 years and running games for friends, students, and newbies to the game for almost 5 years now, I know running a tabletop game...

Social-Emotional Learning, Black Panther, and Chadwick Boseman’s Legacy By: Matt Slayter, PCC Education Program Manager A Hero Falls     The influence of Black Panther cannot be overstated. For many, especially young Black Americans, the hero’s inclusion in...

Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories)   A New Weekly Pop Culture Show   Coming this week — PopStream, a brand-new weekly program from Pop Culture Classroom and Denver Pop Culture Con. This new...

Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Faith Ojebuoboh, PCC Instructor   Pop Culture has always raised political and social themes, especially comics and cartoons. The monsters in classic...

Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Matt Slayter – PCC Education Program Manager   CURRENT EVENTS FOR BACK TO SCHOOL DISCUSSION   Epic Games, the creators of Fortnite, have waged an...

Celebrating the 19th Amendment and Women’s Suffrage On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Enshrining the right to vote regardless of gender, ratification offered new political power for millions of women — and heralded other...

Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Erik Jacobson, PCC Instructor   Ask any educator or parent: the 2020-2021 school year is going to be a unique and challenging one. Right now, virtual...

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 Family. Labeled as an...

Young Adult Graphic Novels You’ll LoveBy 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 for our players. Here are a...

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, followed by silence as I tried to browse the shelves....

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 dominated the Young Adult Fantasy genre for a long time, and...

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 anime fan’s favorite pastime, and in the summer of COVID-19 there’s lots...

Quarantine Cosplay: Upping Your Costume Game at HomeBy 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 learned how to cross-stitch, and with the...

The Best Tools to Create Your Own ComicBy 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 more...

Children's Comic ContestPop 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 for kids, and we're asking for your help to...

(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 with pop culture on a...

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 dragon? Cooperating to solve a riddle to...

(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 free comics and other educational resources currently...

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 Classroom, so we’ve packed this incredible event with exciting guests...

By Madison Greenly Fanfiction, or fan-created stories based on books, movies, TV, etc., has become increasingly popular on the internet. Creators use it to explore new media, to share ideas, and to connect with stories on a personal level. But fanfiction can be used...