Silver Spring school aids budding comic creators
Fourth-grader Diana Franco makes a comic at JoAnn Leleck Elementary School at Broad Acres in Silver Spring during an after-school comics club on Monday. Ivan Mendez has been reading comic books since at least first grade. Through an AmeriCorps program, the fourth-grader at JoAnn Leleck Elementary School at Broad Acres in Silver Spring now is learning to make his own comics. “I like Marvel comics like ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Star Wars,’” Ivan said. “I get to learn how those are made and work on my own comics.” Gregory Silber formed the after-school comics club late last year at the school as a writing enrichment instructor in the AmeriCorps program Project Change. He works with students during school hours on regular writing.