Chester Comix
Making history interesting for reluctant readers!
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Founded:
Chester Comix began in 2003, but the character has been around since Earth Day in 1995! www.chestercomix.com
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Photos

2 of 35 albumsSee All

Wall PhotosCreated about 2 weeks ago
World War 1 Web rough draftsCreated about a month ago
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Chester Comix

Chester Comix was supposed to sign books and hang with Santa at the National Museum of the Marine Corps today -- but DC is in the middle of getting 24 inches of snow and the Quantico base is on red alert and everything there is shut down. Santa might be able to make it in, but not me and the crab!!!!!!!!

December 19, 2009 at 7:59am
Renee Cline Sumner
Renee Cline Sumner
Thank you, we will vote and report after Christmas!
December 19, 2009 at 8:09am
Jodie Slothower
Jodie Slothower
We got our books, too! We're excited to get started with them. They look great!
December 24, 2009 at 5:59pm
Chester Comix

Chester Comix Here's the line at the POffice at 2 p.m. today -- 45 minute wait, but I got a lot of comix shipped out and had some great conversations in the line (the woman in the photo used to teach kindergarten in Wmsbg and her husband was a principal here - she said she loved Chester Comix when it was in the paper!).

Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Awesome! You should grow one of those groovy beards I was always insisting you put on the Civil War guys. That would be hot.
December 19, 2009 at 9:29am
Chester Comix
Chester Comix
ha! I'll never forget that request from you -- and good news: I'm looking to crank out 2-3 Civil War items in 2010 as we ramp up to the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States, so you'll be getting your Historic Beard fix!!!
Tue at 8:42pm
Chester Comix

Chester Comix A Time Inc. tablet?? Rumors of an Apple tablet?!? This is a good look at why I'm scrambling to get Chester Comix onto the iPhone -- and why I no longer work for a newspaper.

michaelhyatt.com
A few days ago, I watched a video demo of the “SI Tablet,” a new eBook device developed by Time, Inc. and The Wonderfactory. It demonstrates how a touch screen, portability, and the convergence of text, audio, and video can create unprecedented opportunities for content providers. ...
Chester Comix
Chester Comix
Please!
It's weird to think about Apple doing both the iPhone AND a tablet, but there's no doubt this has been The Future for a long time -- I wrote about all these ideas back in 1995 or so in a special series for my newspaper, the Daily Press! (So if newspapers saw all this coming years ago and had years of archived stories and all this new and ... See Moredaily content to provide and had these big staffs of knowledgeable and literate people to apply to new models, HOW did newspaper companies miss the digital media boat so badly?!?!?! That question will be pondered for generations to come . . . )
December 14, 2009 at 12:07pm
Chester Comix

Chester Comix is looking for a developer to work with on cocoa software to get Chester Comix onto the iPhone. Anybody know anybody??

December 13, 2009 at 9:50am
Donald E. Boyd
Donald E. Boyd
I sent a name to Wendy.
December 13, 2009 at 12:03pm
Chester Comix

Chester Comix FINALLY!!! After years of disappearing interns, the sea change of NCLB, web glitches, and a distracted owner, the Chester Comix website can at last show you how my books match a specific state's social studies standards! First up: North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania. MORE SOON!!!

www.chestercomix.com
"Thank you so much for making a comic that children WANT to read and learn from."Niesa Wilhelm, 2nd grade teacher in Virginia
Donald E. Boyd
Donald E. Boyd
I think you have a great idea Bentley and I'm confident you will perfect it to perfection! -love, Dad
December 12, 2009 at 7:53am
Chester Comix

Chester Comix HA! I talk about this all the time in my literacy/author's purpose presentations to schoolkids. I use Egyptian writing and Dr. Seuss' forgotten classic "On Beyond Zebra" to make the point: we should not be afraid to make new pictures to communicate -- this is how culture and language grow.

www.theonion.com
NEW YORK—Dynamic, sleek, and sexy is how a panel of typographic and marketing experts described the 15 new replacement letters they unveiled Monday in an effort to reinvigorate the faltering English alphabet.
Donald E. Boyd
Donald E. Boyd
I fully agree, Bentley. You are doing great work! -love, Dad
December 11, 2009 at 9:42am
Chester Comix

Chester Comix Here are rough draft pages for another comic I am drawing for release in 2010: THE WORLD WAR I WEB. And I'm inviting any teacher to let their class EDIT these pages to help me make the book better! I think this interactive project will help classes across the country build their writing skills by helping improve mine. ;-)

Chester Comix

Chester Comix yesterday got the first advance copy of the Homeschool All-Stars comic! My first hardcover looks GREAT!!! (Now you all know what you're getting for Christmas . . . )

December 6, 2009 at 12:13pm
Joyce
Joyce
Glad it looks GREAT!!!!
December 6, 2009 at 2:59pm
Chester Comix

Chester Comix Many educators see comix as a faster way than a textbook to get info to kids, but here is a great blog from an educator about using drawing to get kids to slow down and relate more deeply to a book. Kids love to draw! We can use that love to boost comprehension.

ow.ly
Some see ‘comprehension’ as an old fashioned term that has lost its relevance in the ‘digital age’. I don’t see it this way. Helping children to comprehend better involves ...
Chester Comix

Chester Comix A set of signed history comix make a unique holiday gift! A mom in Louisiana just got hers and then wrote me: "Thanks you so much for taking care of this for me. I know your books will be one of Laurance's favorite Christmas presents."

December 1, 2009 at 5:07am
Chester Comix
I’ve been blessed to meet most of my cartooning heroes in the past 20 years, but I never got to meet Charles “Sparky” Schulz. Until two nights ago. I ha...
Kelly
Kelly
I love this, Bentley.
November 28, 2009 at 9:58am
Joyce
Joyce
This is beautiful, Bentley!!
November 28, 2009 at 10:33am
Chester Comix

Chester Comix is thankful for Amazon! We just got our biggest weekly order ever in the middle of our biggest month for Amazon orders ever! Whooo hoooooooo! (now off to pack up 293 comix . . .)

November 22, 2009 at 6:13am
Angela Malicki
Angela Malicki
Congratulations! Your success is well deserved. I'm sure there are thousands of happy Chester Comix readers out there who are glad their teachers are offering them such a fun and effective way to learn about history:)
November 24, 2009 at 12:01pm
Laurie
Laurie
That is wonderful Bentley and so deserving! Whoooooo hoooo:}
November 25, 2009 at 5:46am
Chester Comix

Chester Comix Finally, Chester Comix is on Twitter! Connect! or Link! or Friend! or whatever they call it over there . . .

twitter.com
A series of educational comics about history for elementary students and reluctant readers
Chester Comix
Woah, there are a lot of librarians on Twitter!!! And plenty of other cool people, too. So now ChesterComix will be a Tweet you can follow as I hack my way through history. I remember hearing about Twitter for the first time on an NPR talkshow in 2007...
Donald E. Boyd
November 22, 2009 at 6:53am
Laura Robertson-Boyd
Laura Robertson-Boyd
As I have said before, I have found twitter to be extremely useful in connecting me to my professional network AND as the primary news source for what is happening real-time in my own community. It is an invaluable resource for me both personally and professionally. And I have been promoting my business on twitter since 2007, too! As the little sister, am I allowed to say: "I told you so"?????

Welcome to twitter!! :)
November 22, 2009 at 5:59pm