Grassroots Campaign for Literacy, Using Cartoons and Humor

reported by Cynthia Brown, LiteracyNews.comPhil Yeh, often called the Godfather of the modern American Graphic Novel, will paint a new mural promoting literacy and the arts at the annual BookExpoAmerica convention on June 1-3, 2007 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.Yeh, who founded Cartoonists Across America & The World in 1985, is on the 22nd year of his world tour, promoting literacy and the arts with humor and cartoons. He is featured in the new book Hometown Heroes (HarperCollins) just released this spring. The book collects articles that originally ran in American Profile magazine and documents how 50 Americans are changing the world. [...] Read more!

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