How comics became literature — and entered serious world of academics: ‘The battle has been fought, and won’

By Douglas Quan. As a toddler, Nick Sousanis’ first word was Batman. In high school, he produced and sold his own comic book called Lockerman. 
Then reality set in. At university, he traded in his pencils for a calculator and studied math. After all, who studies comics at university? But a career in numbers just didn’t compute. More...