We heard a lot about Bill Ayers during the 2008 election cycle; mostly attempts at using his name as a smear because of his past with the Weather Underground. But for the past forty years Ayers has been a teacher, an occupation he calls the most intellectually challenging thing he's ever done.  His book To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher has seen multiple editions, and when the publisher asked him about doing a new one, he wanted to do it a little differently. Ayers teamed up with comics artist Ryan Alexander-Tanner and created a graphic novel version of the book, To Teach: The Journey, In Comics, hoping to reach new and different audiences.

Ayers sat down with us at the Bank Street School of Education to discuss his own journey as a teacher, the new graphic novel, and what really needs to be done to reform education in the U.S.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art held its annual festival recently, with independent comics artists from all over the world convening in New York to show off their work. Some are new on the scene, and others, like Peter Kuper, co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated, have been around for decades and have had work in such mainstream publications as The New York Times.

GRITtv visited the MoCCA festival, and then visited Kuper's studio to speak with him about his new book, Diario de Oaxaca, and the unexpected events that went into its creation.