World Book Day

World Book Day is a wonderful celebration of all things reading and learning, encouraging a love of books and the written word among young people. What we love about World Book Day at Dekko Comics is that it celebrates the written word in all its forms, and yes, comics have their place too.

Not every child is a natural reader nor does every child have the ability to focus on large amounts of text. Comics have always been a great way for those who struggle to learn off the page or engage with written stories. By mixing small amounts of text with visual storytelling in the form of illustrations, comic books make stories and learning accessible, easy to manage and understand. Without being aware of it, comics have made reading fun for countless young people who would normally shy away from opening a book.

Dekko Comics was founded on this simple idea, make learning through reading fun by creating a comic book that supports classroom teaching.

Now, comic books are all about origin stories and Dekko has a pretty great one of its own. As a teenager Rossie Stone, founder of Dekko Comics, struggled with his learning due to his Dyslexia. As an avid fan of childhood comics such as the Beano and a keen drawer, Rossie found that if he turned his revision notes into drawings, he could unlock his learning. Skip ahead a few years and that same teenager, now a university graduate, took that idea and created Dekko Comics – comic books that aligned with the National Curriculum and supported learning by mixing short amounts of text with visual story telling.

Just like any good comic story that origin story has given us a mission, to use a mix of written and visual language in the form of fun comics to help young people unlock their learning.

They may have more pictures than most books, but comics still have their place in helping young people enjoy reading and learning. Maybe we’re biased, but comic books are pretty great things.