Scott Tingley, who runs the website Comics in the Classroom, is also a third-grade teacher at Riverside Consolidated School in New Brunswick, Canada. His class recently received an Innovative Learning Fund grant, allowing him and his class to launch a new comic site called Riverside Reads. The site includes comics made by his students, as well as reviews of books like Squirrelly Gray and an interview with young comic creator Alexa Kitchen.

“My students have just launched a web-publishing site for their comics, stories and reviews and I couldn’t be more excited!” said Tingley in a press release. “The purpose of the site is to get kids excited about school work in general and the whole process of writing specifically.” The release also encourages kids from all over the world to submit material to the site.

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