Comic Culture utilizes popular urban culture, Manga and American cartooning to benefit the young people of the Bronx communities includes greater ethnic, gender, and multicultural understanding and the building of stronger artistic skill sets such as; critical thinking, drawing, writing, dynamic drawing, inking, storyboarding, sequential storytelling and even sculpture. They learn American and global history as they learn the history of the medium. They especially learn how to dissect popular culture, and discern what are the messages being presented, and gives them greater power to control and distribute their own messages.