teaching comics (canterbury english teachers' association)
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Whatare
comics?
Comics are not a genre
Michael Turner
Carl Barks, Uncle Scrooge
Charles Schulz, Peanuts
Comics are aform
Meister Bertram von Minden,The Grabower Altar, 1375-1383
Colin McCahon, 6 Days in Nelson & Canterbury (1950)
Comics are a form
used to tell many kinds of stories
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons,
The Watchmen
Neil Gaiman (et al), Sandman Brian K. Vaughan (et al), Y: the Last Man
Craig Thompson, Blankets
Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe
Chester Brown,Louis Riel
Art Spiegelman,Maus
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza
Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna, Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth
Carol Lay,The Big Skinny
A selection of Christian tracts from Jack T. Chick comics
Scott McCloud, Understanding ComicsReinventing Comics
Making Comics
David Raw,Drawing Silence
Comics have
history
“The comics erode the most fundamental habits of humane, civilised living… and they erode them in the most vulnerable element of our society, our children…
“If we ban the comics we are reducing the chances of war and preventing the further perversion of the world’s children.”
Bill Pearsonletter to Landfall (March, 1955)
Dr. FredericWertham
Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Frederic Wertham (1954)
David Hajdu,The Ten-Cent Plague
Comics are
global
Shojo Shonen
Shojo Beat Shonen Jump
MANGA
Blutch, Blotch: Le Roi de Paris
Edmond Baudoin, Le Chemin de Saint-Jean
Joann Sfar, Pascin
Jacques Tardi & JeanVautrin, Le Cri Du Peuple
Frederic Boilet & Benôit Peeters, Tokyo est mon Jardin
Philippe Dupuy, Hanté
BD
Amruta Patil,Kari & Parva
Nikolai Maslov,Siberia
Various,Congo 50
Bob Kerr & Stephen Ballantyne, Terry and the Gunrunners
(Collins 1982) Terry and the Last Moa(Finlayson Hill 1986)
Terry and the Yodelling Bull(Hodder & Stoughton 1999)
Chris Slane & Robert Sullivan,
Maui: Legends of the Outcast (Godwit 1997)
Chris Slane & Matt Elliott,
Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War I(Harper Collins NZ)
Ant Sang, Shaolin Burning
(Harper Collins NZ)
Chris Grosz, Kimble Bent Malcontent
(Random House NZ)
Nga Pakiwaituhio Aotearoa:New Zealand
Comics
Pakiwaitara + Tuhistory + writing/drawing
How to read
comics
Bill Watterson
Reading pictures
closure
Drawings are a kind of language
Visual metaphor
David B.
Vocabularies of conventional signs
Herge
Miwa Ueda, Peach Girl
Pictures can be like words
Chris WareAcme Novelty Library
Chris WareSketchbook
Dialects, Idioms, Accents
Style as individual ‘voice’
H. G. Potter / Chester Brown
Robert Crumb & Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Picture + Picture = Comics
TaniguchiThe Man Who Walks
SCOTT McCLOUDUnderstanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Syntax & Grammar
HergeTintin In Tibet
Katsuhiro OtomoAkira
Chester BrownLouis Riel
Chris Ware
Chris Ware
Words + Pictures
Will EisnerComics & Sequential Art
Jim WoodringFrank
Jim WoodringFrank
John Byrne
James Pannafino, Typographic Comics
Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus
Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus
Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus
Words can be like
pictures
Goscinny & Uderzo, Asterix the Legionary
Chris WareJimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth
Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese ComicsPaul Gravett, Manga – Sixty Years of Japanese Comics
Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels – Everything You Need to Know
(also known as Graphic Novels – Stories to Change Your life)
The Best American ComicsCover art by Michael Cho (left), Jillian Tamaki (right)
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