Category: the teacher from mars

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Positioning the Reader in “The Teacher from Mars” and “Judgement Day!”

Last post, I wrote about the ways that Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” serves as a commentary on racism and Jim Crow during the mid-twentieth century. Today, I want to look at Otto Binder, Al Feldstein, and Joe Orlando’s adaptation of the story for EC Comics’ Weird Science-Fantasy #24 and at Feldstein and Orlando’s “Judgement Day!” Specifically, I want to focus on some … Read More Positioning the Reader in “The Teacher from Mars” and “Judgement Day!”

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Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” and Jim Crow

In my Literature and Composition Graphic Memoirs class, I taught Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” along with the graphic adaptation written by Otto Binder and Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando. Today, I want to talk about the story, and in the next post, I want to look at the some of the elements of the adaptation along with Feldstein and Orlando’s … Read More Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” and Jim Crow