Deep off the coast of Tazmania, the distress call is sent: divers are trapped in a cave by a giant sea monster! Heeding the call in his mini-sub, the Dolphin, is Capt'n Eli, intrepid Sea Explorer and inventor. In the endless depths he discovers everything is not as it seems.
The Goblin of the Deep is a new 6-page Captn Eli story by Maine comic book author and illustrator Jay Piscopo. This story is featured in Reading With Pictures first anthology. Reading with Pictures Volume 1 is a full color, 192 page collection of works by more than 30 comic creators. A full list of contributors can be found at this link: http://readingwithpictures.org/Reading_With_Pictures/Anthology_Creators.html.
Reading With Pictures is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that advocates the use of comics in the classroom to promote literacy and improve educational outcomes for all students. There is a trend in education towards using graphic novels as a teaching tool to motivate and inspire students. Comic books and graphic novels are now being used in classrooms as tools for teaching everything from early reading to course texts for college. A collection of articles on this topic can be found at this link: http://bookshelf.diamondcomics.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=20&s=165&ai=37674.
Piscopo is the author and illustrator of The Undersea Adventures of Captn Eli graphic novel series.
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