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Ryan's crappy website click here!!!!
Cooperative Comics, A Teaching Tolerance activity for grades 4 and up.
Crafting a Minicomics - Excercise from Mac McCool
WEBSITES: TO ASSIST STUDENTS IN CREATING COMICS
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Th(ink) - Single panel cartoons tackling political and social issues impacting communities of color.
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Art Spiegelman's biography at Random House
Blog: "UN to Investigate Jyllands-Posten 'Racism'" (re: the Danish Muhammad Cartoons)
The Center for Cartoon Studies
Eye Classics - Canonical Literature in Graphic Novel Form (all available from US Amazon)
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• Cleaver, S. (2008 March/April) Comic books: Mr. Weatherbee, don't blow your top. It's actually a good thing. Scholastic Instructor. Retrieved April 30, 2008 from http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article
• DeSimone, B. (2006). Drawing on justice. Teaching Tolerance. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?cid=644
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• McHugh, H. (2008, Feb 25). The Cold War assault on comic book culture revisited, Wired Magazine. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-03/pl_print
• Pink, D. (2008, Oct 22). Japan ink: inside the Manga industrial complex. Wired Magazine. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga
• Pink, D. (2007, Oct 22). Manga does Shakespeare. Wired Magazine. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga_sb
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• Carter, J. (Ed.). (2007). Building literacy connections with graphic novels: page by page, panel by panel. Urbana, IL; National Council of Teachers of English
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• McCloud, S. (2006). Making comics. New York, NY; Harper.
• McCloud, S. (1993). Understanding comics. New York, NY; HarperPerennial.
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• Guibert, E. & Sfar, J. (2006). Sardine in outer space. New York, NY; First Second.
• Klein, G. (2006). The lost colony, book one: the snodgrass conspiracy. New York, NY; First Second.
• Moore, E., & Pekar H. (Eds.). (2006). The best american comics 2006. New York; Houghton Mifflin.
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• Stefan G. Bucher's Daily Monster - short time elapsed videos of monster cartoons.
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• NPR (January 26, 2004): Morning Edition January 26, 2004 "Intersections: Of Maus and Spiegelman" an interview with Art Spiegelman.
• WNYC (January 14, 2008): The Brian Lehrer Show "Reading with Pictures" a discussion with Michael Bitz (the Comic Book Project), Francoise Mouly (art editor at The New Yorker and editorial director of TOON books) and Stanford Professor Psychology Barbara Tversky.
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• American Splendor (2003, R) Dir. Sheri Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
• Crumb (1994, R) Dir. Terry Zweigoff.
• Persepolis (2007, PG-13) Dir. Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud