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About this comic
A teacher of students with special needs discovers why, to his surprise, his students had better attendance throughout the pandemic than non-special needs students. Social isolation was actually socially healthier for some students who felt, as one student explained, they could “focus on learning instead of avoiding problems” presented by school rules and by other students who bullied them.
Artist
Lara Antal
Lara (she/they) is an award-winning creative who loves black humor, black coffee, and colorful characters. Their debut graphic novel, Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars, was the recipient of the 2023 Graphic Medicine Award and a finalist for both the Ringo Comic Awards and Pop Culture Classroom’s Book of the Year. They’ve been awarded a We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) Illustrator, Author Grant and a Comics Advocacy Group (CAG) Creators Grant, and have been an artist-in-residence at The Peter Bullough Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. They regularly contribute comics to The Washington Post and were included in the Best Illustrations of 2022. They’ve been featured in The Wall Street Journal, WNYC-NPR, Kirkus, Paris Review, and more. If you dine in NYC you might see one of their infamous Choking Victim posters. Hailing from Wisconsin, they currently live in Brooklyn with their almost-toothless chihuahua, Chuck.
Storyteller
Miles Woodfield
Miles Woodfield currently coordinates the high school special education department in a charter school just outside of Cleveland. He is a graduate of the Ohio special education system himself, and has been working exclusively with students with severe emotional and behavioral disabilities for thirteen years.
