EVERETT — As a kid he drew cartoons on his math papers. Now he draws math in his cartoons. What’s up with that? “I Hate Math” is a new comic book by Ian Brown, 37, a third grade teacher at Challenger ...

The words have lived in my mind for 37 years. It was 1986 and the professor of one of my upper-level journalism classes was handing back our papers – magazine articles we had written. On top, in red ...