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Comics

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Genres and Topics

DEFINITION

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WEBSITES: CURRICULUM AND LESSON PLANS

 

WEBSITES: TO ASSIST STUDENTS IN CREATING COMICS

 

WEBSITES: CARTOON COLLECTIONS 

 

WEBSITES: POLITICAL CARTOONS

 

WEBSITES: GENERAL RESOURCES ON COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

 

ARTICLES (about comics in the classroom)

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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

• Norton-Meier, L., (2002 November). Graphic novels for multiple literacies. [Electronic Version].  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Retrieved April 15, 2008 from http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/jaal/11-02_column

• Rhett, M.(2007) The graphic novel and the world history classroom. World History Connected.  Retrieved April  25, 2008 from http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/4.2/rhett.html

• Toppo, G., (2005, May 5).  Teachers are getting graphic.  USA Today. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2005-05-03-educational-comics_x.

 

ARTICLES (about comics)

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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

• Pink, D. (2007, Oct 22). This is your brain on Manga.  Wired Magazine. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga_chiba

• Spiegelman, A. (2006, June).  Drawing blood: outrageous cartoons and the art of outrage.  Harper's Magazine.  Retrieved April 14, 2008 from http://harpers.org/archive/2006/06/page/0045

• Spiegelman, A. (2002, July 22).  Ballbuster: nernard krigstein's life between the panels. The New Yorker. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/07/22/020722crbo_books

• Thompson, J. (2007, Oct 22). How manga conquered the U.S., a graphic guide to Japans coolest export.  Wired Magazine.  Retrieved April 14, 2008 from http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2007/1511_ff_manga

• West, M. (2007, Jan 30).  'Last' man creates differen world on 'Lost'.  CNN.com. Retrieved April 14, 2008 from http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/01/30/brian.vaughan/index.html

 Smith, Jeremy N. (2008, July 26). Catching up on Comics, what to read in order to get the big picture on graphic fiction. Chicago Tribune. from http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-graphic-novels-26jul26,0,3527775.story

 

BOOKS (about teaching this topic/genre)

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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

• Fisher, D. & Frey, N. (Eds.). (2008).  Teaching visual literacy: using comic books, graphic novels, cartoons and more to develop comprehension and thinking.  Thousand Oaks, CA; Corwin Press

• Gorman, M. (2003). Getting graphic: using graphic novels to promote literacy with pre-teens and teens.  Columbus, OH; Linworth.

• Lyga, A. with Lyga, B. (2004). Graphic novels in your media center: a definitive guide.  Westport, CT; Libraries Unlimited. 

 

BOOKS (general information about comics)

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• McCloud, S. (2006). Making comics. New York, NY; Harper. 

• McCloud, S. (2000). Reinventing comics. New York, NY; Harper. 

• McCloud, S. (1993). Understanding comics. New York, NY; HarperPerennial.

 

BOOKS (classroom friendly comics)

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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.

• Moore, E., & Ware C. (Eds.).  (2006).  The best american comics 2007.  New York; Houghton Mifflin.

• Mouly, F., & Spiegelman, A. (Eds.). (2006). Big fat little lit.  New York, NY; Puffin Books.

• Satrapi, M. (2004).  Persepolis: the story of a childhood.  New York, NY; Pantheon.

• Satrapi, M. (2004).  Persepolis 2: the story of a return.  New York, NY; Pantheon.

• Spiegelman, A. (1986). Maus I: a survivor's tale: my father bleeds history. New York, NY; Pantheon.

• Spiegelman, A. (1992). Maus II: a survivor's tale: and here my troubles began. New York, NY; Pantheon.

• Stassen, J.P. (2007). Deogratias, a tale of Rwanda.  New York, NY; First Second.

• Winick, J. (2000). Pedro and me.  New York, NY; Henry Holt and Company

• Yang, G. (2007). American born Chinese.  New York, NY; First Second.

 

ONLINE VIDEO, SHORT FILMS & MOVIE CLIPS

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Stefan G. Bucher's Daily Monster - short time elapsed videos of monster cartoons.

 

RADIO/PODCASTS

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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. 

 

MOVIES

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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 

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