{"id":1487,"date":"2026-10-09T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:19:20","slug":"is-reading-comics-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/is-reading-comics-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Is reading comics bad for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The podcast from the English and Creative Writing department at The Open University is available to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, PocketCasts, and all major providers.<\/p>\n<p>Our new episode features Dr Francesca Benatti and Dr Shafquat Towheed discussing comics.<\/p>\n<p>Are they are good quality reading material?<\/p>\n<p>Search &#8216;OU Literature Podcast&#8217; on Apple, Spotify, Pocketcast, and all major podcast providers.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the transcript of this episode here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OU-Literature-Podcast-Episode-2-Is-reading-comics-bad-for-you-\u2013-transcript.docx\" >OU Literature Podcast Episode 2 Is reading comics bad for you \u2013 transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find videos of our podcast episodes on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@OULiterature<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on social media: @OULiterature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The podcast from the English and Creative Writing department at The Open University is available to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, PocketCasts, and all major providers. Our new episode features Dr Francesca Benatti and Dr Shafquat Towheed discussing comics. Are they are good quality reading material? Search &#8216;OU Literature Podcast&#8217; on Apple, Spotify, Pocketcast, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/is-reading-comics-bad-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is reading comics bad for you?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,121,356,87,437,8,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborations","category-creative-writing","category-english-literature","category-news","category-public-engagement","category-reading-pleasures","category-research","category-teaching-and-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}