Capitalist-bashing terrorist Bill Ayers signs deal to turn memoir into “graphic novel”

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 7, 2009 03:11 PM

I’ve got a few graphic words for this latest bit of news about Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers’ capitalist pursuits. I bet you do, too:

Teachers College Press, a scholarly, professional and trade publisher focused on the theory and practice of teacher education, has reached agreement on a two-book deal with William Ayers, the University of Illinois at Chicago professor, lauded educational theorist and former leader of the radical 1960s Weather Underground. And, yes, Ayers is indeed the same figure dragooned into the 2008 presidential race in a controversial attempt to use his background in radical politics and a minor acquaintance with Barack Obama to undermine Obama’s presidential run.

In spring 2010, TCP will publish a graphic novel adaptation of To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, a much-praised memoir of Ayers’s life as a teacher, tentatively to be called To Teach: The Graphic Memoir with art by Xeric Award-winner Ryan Alexander-Tanner. More than a simple memoir, To Teach is also a peer-reviewed work of scholarship on Ayers’s teaching precepts as well as a vivid recollection of his adventures in the classroom. At the same time, TCP will publish a new and revised third edition of the original prose To Teach: The Journey of a Teache. One of TCP’s all-time bestselling titles, To Teach was originally published in 1993 and has sold more than 75,000 copies over three printings, the last one released in 2001.

“For an academic/scholarly press, that’s a major bestseller,” noted TCP acquisitions editor Meg Lemke, who “co-acquired” the book with TCP director Carol Saltz, who will edit the new prose edition. Lemke will oversee the production of the graphic edition. Despite the media hoopla over his radical past, Ayers is a serious and much respected Chicago-based educational activist and theorist who has been with TCP for years and published at least five books at the house.

Hat tip: DS Hube

As for Ayers’ “serious and much respected” track record as an “educational activist and theorist,” I highly recommend you read Steve Sailer’s investigation of how Bill Gates blew $2 billion on Ayers’ educational boondoggle.

How about a graphic novel of that?

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  1. #2
    On February 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, TXGator said:

    RIP:

    SHAME

  2. #3
    On February 7th, 2009 at 3:35 pm, docflash said:

    I’ve been around his ilk and wonder how many young student female admirers earned their grades.

  3. #4
    On February 7th, 2009 at 3:36 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    To TeachBlow Up Your Girlfriend: The Journey of a Bastard who Married his Second Choice After the First Turned Out to be All Thumbs

  4. #6
    On February 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, deedledee said:

    I caught the tail-end of talk host Dom Giordano in Philly saying Ayers is going to be at Millersville U. and he’s going to try to go up there to ask some questions (of the Administration?), but is hoping to do it in a way not to get arrested…but I didn’t catch the whole story. He was heartened to get a call from a parent saying his son is trying to organize a protest. Another caller offered to go up with him. Apparently it is a state college, but a private group is funding something to do with it. Sorry I don’t have all the details, but if you have family involved with this University you might want to check it out.

  5. #8
    On February 7th, 2009 at 3:40 pm, Madam President said:

    Usually “graphic novels” are drawn in the “anime” style. That’s sure to attract some politically obtuse weeabos..

  6. #10
    On February 7th, 2009 at 3:58 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    Will BO write a review?

  7. #12
    On February 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pm, zorro said:

    I highly recommend you read Steve Sailer’s investigation of how Bill Gates blew $2 billion on Ayers’ educational boondoggle.

    Wow! Now we know when and how Barack The Chicago Thug learned his con-man skills.

  8. #13
    On February 7th, 2009 at 4:43 pm, SHoward said:

    Seems kind of fitting that his memoir be a comic book.

  9. #14
    On February 7th, 2009 at 4:55 pm, rightisright said:

    excuse me, Bill Ayers is a POS and should of had his air taken away years ago.

  10. #15
    On February 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm, bradley said:

    “Graphic novels” are actually comic books, the main reading material of many of today’s uneducated masses. Perfect, if you think about it, since it’s going to be distributed to TEACHERS who probably can’t read either. This guy is an ass, and should have been put in jail. Even though he wasn’t, he’s still an ass and always will be.

  11. #16
    On February 7th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, FilmLadd said:

    Argh… and here I am working on a conservative graphic novel and he had to go and do this…

  12. #17
    On February 7th, 2009 at 5:06 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    Bill “bomber” Ayres and his lovely wife Bernadine should be in a Supermax prison somewhere for the rest of their lives.
    ***
    Or pushing up daisys after a Saddam Hussein type long drop with a short rope.
    ***
    What ever happened to the arcane theory that waging war against the U.S.A. was a crime punishable by death?
    ***
    Why can’t the still living victims and the families of all their victims (living and murdered) sue for all the Ayers bombing family money, mansions, and book sales revenues? I’m not a big fan of lawyers, but it should be possible to get some bucks from them.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  13. #18
    On February 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Hey Ladd
    I looked at your work. It’s terrific!
    You should make a “graphic novel” graphic video of Ayers life and times from the conservative viewpoint. It could illustrate some really good explosive scenes.

  14. #20
    On February 7th, 2009 at 5:27 pm, tpitman said:

    as well as a vivid recollection of his adventures in the classroom

    ?????? Adventures in the classroom? That must have been one hell of a class he taught to have had “adventures” in. The only “adventures” I ever had in a classroom as an undergraduate were “give and take sessions” of the carnal variety after hours because there was nowhere else to go.

  15. #22
    On February 7th, 2009 at 6:32 pm, FilmLadd said:

    On February 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm, FamilyMan said:

    I looked at your work. It’s terrific!
    You should make a “graphic novel” graphic video of Ayers life and times from the conservative viewpoint. It could illustrate some really good explosive scenes.

    Ha! It’s too bad I don’t do “live action” work… only 3D animation… although it might be interesting to animate all those explosions…

  16. #24
    On February 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm, Helene said:

    We need to just ignore this yahoo. What a putz!

  17. #25
    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:02 pm, torabora said:

    I like the graphic novel wherein Bill and Bernadine are caught for the act of setting a bomb off in The Pentagon .

    In their ensuing trial they are found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by firing squad.

    In the last minute of their miserable rodent like lives, as they are being blindfolded by their executioner, Bill declares boldly to the uncaring world “I wish we could have done more!”. Bernadine wets herself.

    The shots ring out and they both slump against their bindings as their blood trickles on their Birkenstocks.

    Their bodies are tossed in a sanitary EPA approved landfill and buried with the days trash.

    Finito.

  18. #26
    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:07 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Why can’t the still living victims and the families of all their victims (living and murdered) sue for all the Ayers bombing family money, mansions, and book sales revenues? I’m not a big fan of lawyers, but it should be possible to get some bucks from them.

    I’m pretty sure most laws about this are like the ones here in the People’s Socialist Quagmire of California.

    The perp must get convicted and then try to profit from the story. If Hollyweird fictionalizes the story using different names, the families have no standing.

    “Guilty as hell, free as a bird.”

  19. #27
    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:18 pm, DaveC said:

    Take a page from Abby Hoffman and steal a copy..

  20. #28
    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:23 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:

    They’re making a comic book about the President’s political officer adviser.

    A comic book. :shock:

    You know – that pretty much sums up the democrat party perfectly.

  21. #29
    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:30 pm, Prickly Pear said:

    Communist scum like Ayers has done more to destroy this country through education and indoctrination(though I repeat myself)than the KGB could’ve ever imagined.I pray that in my lifetime that I see him standing in front of that bullet pockmarked brick wall for as long as it takes the firing squad to carry out its duty.

  22. #30
    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:42 pm, Valerie said:

    And who’s funding this?

    Follow the money. I’ve got kids going to college in a few years. The operative words are “exposure” and “boycott.”

  23. #31
    On February 7th, 2009 at 8:21 pm, Arbalest said:

    Doubtless, several pages will be devoted by Ayres to his uncanny ability to evade the fearsome Conservatives with their dreaded arsenal of Intellectually Honest Questions while still managing to speak to The People at open university forums.

    His recent televised brush with a reporter armed with questions, where he was forced to rely on the local police for protection, will doubtless be a harrowing tale.

  24. #32
    On February 7th, 2009 at 8:23 pm, regularguy said:

    Comic book?! Sounds like low grade porn to me.

  25. #33
    On February 7th, 2009 at 9:22 pm, FilmLadd said:

    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:07 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    The perp must get convicted and then try to profit from the story.

    Uhm… two letters: O and J.

    Remember that the Goldmans and Browns sued OJ Simpson under a “wrongful death” suit. And won.

    The family members could go after Ayers and his wife, for sure. A civil suit doesn’t require conviction in criminal court first – although it does help.

  26. #34
    On February 7th, 2009 at 10:07 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Capitalist-bashing terrorist Bill Ayers

    Michelle, you are too kind.
    Ayers is not just a “Capitalist-bashing” terrorist…

    Ayers is a Violent, Revolutionary Communist.
    What is Obama?

  27. #35
    On February 7th, 2009 at 10:23 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On February 7th, 2009 at 7:30 pm, Prickly Pear said:

    Communist scum like Ayers has done more to destroy this country through education and indoctrination(though I repeat myself)than the KGB could’ve ever imagined.

    This indoctrination IS KGB/FSB activity!

    Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov (a.k.a Tomas Schuman) explained over 25 years ago that only 15% of the KGB budget went to the spy activities that people usually think of as indicative of the KGB.

    The reality is that 85% of the KGB budget went towards IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION.

  28. #36
    On February 8th, 2009 at 12:00 am, havok said:

    Anyone have ayers e-mail addy? I’d like to send him a message every day asking if he has met his quota of dead innocents.

  29. #38
    On February 8th, 2009 at 12:33 am, Member-VRWC said:

    And, yes, Ayers is indeed the same figure dragooned into the 2008 presidential race in a controversial attempt to use his background in radical politics and a minor acquaintance with Barack Obama to undermine Obama’s presidential run.

    Not so minor. Ayers, after all, wrote at least the first of BO’s autobiographies, if not both.

    It’s sad, really, to see how bankrupt academia has become that a punk terrorist could come to be a “lauded educational theorist.”

  30. #39
    On February 8th, 2009 at 9:53 am, JT said:

    On February 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, deedledee said:

    I caught the tail-end of talk host Dom Giordano in Philly saying Ayers is going to be at Millersville U. and he’s going to try to go up there to ask some questions (of the Administration?), but is hoping to do it in a way not to get arrested…but I didn’t catch the whole story. He was heartened to get a call from a parent saying his son is trying to organize a protest. Another caller offered to go up with him. Apparently it is a state college, but a private group is funding something to do with it. Sorry I don’t have all the details, but if you have family involved with this University you might want to check it out.

    I periodically search http://www.supportbillayers.org for supporters from my alma mater. I’ve pulled all my financial support to the school. It was significant. I told the school that as long as these terrorist supporters were employed, I would no longer be giving financial support.

    So far, I have 10 other successful grads that have pulled theirs.

    Since I did that, the number of supporters has gone from 3 to 8. Proof that liberal stupidity only grows in academia, but hardly ever recedes.

  31. #40
    On February 8th, 2009 at 10:21 am, granite said:

    In spring 2010, TCP will publish a graphic novel adaptation….

    Graphic novel…in other words, a comic book.

    Or, as my father, who passed away a few weeks ago, called the Uncle Scrooge, Bugs Bunny, Turok Son of Stone, etc. comics I used to read as a kid: “Funny Books”.

    TCP:

    Teachers College Press, a scholarly, professional and trade publisher focused on the theory and practice of teacher education,….

    So grade inflation has not been bad enough; now, we have a

    scholarly, professional and trade publisher

    announcing an agreement to bring out a comic book.
    As Clint Eastwood says in “The Enforcer”, “Marvelous”.

    …focused on the theory and practice of teacher education,….

    That tells us all we need to know right there.

  32. #43
    On February 8th, 2009 at 12:18 pm, greenfairie said:

    The “graphic novel” industry is full of mouth-breathing pinheads who worship the likes of Bill Ayres.

  33. #44
    On February 8th, 2009 at 12:36 pm, havok said:

    I wish you guys would not paint the ‘graphic novel’ industry this way. I have someone who works for me who does graphic novels (and he has written a regular novel as well) as side work and he is far from a flaming liberal. He can’t stand Obama and our current mess of so-called ‘leaders’.

  34. #45
    On February 8th, 2009 at 2:08 pm, twofoot said:

    Teachers College Press, a scholarly, professional and trade publisher focused on the theory and practice of teacher education, has reached agreement on a two-book deal with William Ayers, the University of Illinois at Chicago professor, lauded educational theorist and former leader of the radical 1960s Weather Underground. And, yes, Ayers is indeed the same figure dragooned into the 2008 presidential race in a controversial attempt to use his background in radical politics and a minor acquaintance with Barack Obama to undermine Obama’s presidential run.

    So, I suppose according to this logic, thirty years down the road we can look forward to Muslim terrorists being rebranded as simple “radicals”.

    Sorry, if I had such a “minor acquaintance” in my background, I wouldn’t be able to get a security clearance high enough to clean toilets at the Pine Bluff Arsenal.

    It’s good to know idiots like this have a say in the modern education system.

  35. #46
    On February 8th, 2009 at 5:25 pm, tbear44 said:

    Bill Ayres you are a punk and a huge POS! You do not belong in this country unless it is to occupy a jail cell.

  36. #47
    On February 9th, 2009 at 8:19 am, Gwillie said:

    Can four hour Spanish language movie with English subtitles be far behind?

  37. #48
    On February 9th, 2009 at 10:13 am, frostrt said:

    On February 9th, 2009 at 8:19 am, Gwillie said:
    Can four hour Spanish language movie with English subtitles be far behind?
    ————————————–

    Perhaps, but Benny Del Toro doesn’t look that much like Ayers . . . bet Sean Penn would LOVE to play him.

    One thing we know for sure; no signings in Canada – they won’t let him in!

    Smart country, at least as far as that goes.

    I smell a MEGA FLOP.

  38. #49
    On February 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm, DanVanSmak said:

    Don Henley was right when he sang:

    “out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.”

    Ain’t it amazing how all these anti-establishment hippies are getting over today with the help of the very things they STILL disparage?

    *out*

  39. #50
    On February 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, frostrt said:

    On February 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm, DanVanSmak said:
    Don Henley was right when he sang:

    “out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.”

    ————————————-

    You know, I never caught the irony of that image until you pointed it out.

    “Down with Capitalism, unless I’M the one who can afford the Cadillac!”

    LOL

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