Once Upon A Time Teaching Fables & Myths With Graphic Novels

Cori McDonald High school librarian

Erin Hill High school English teacher

Talia Hurwich Comics educator, researcher, and writer Worth a Thousand Words: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Visual and Verbal Literacy

Alexis Fajardo Creator of Kid Beowulf

Jenni Holm Creator of Babymouse

Tracy Edmunds, M.A.Ed. Teacher and education consultant, Graphic Novels Are Elementary

Jenni&MattHolm

Babymouse

CBLDFUsingGraphicNovelsinEducation:BabymouseByMerylJaffe

EisnerWinnerAlexisFajardo

KidBeowulf

AMP!KidsKidBeowulfTeachingGuidesByTracyEdmunds

Fables, Fairy Tales, & Myths

Myth Supernatural story about

gods, ancestors, or heroes; attempts to explain mysteries

Fable Short story with a moral,

often with animal characters

Fairy Tale Story about magical

beings and lands, usually intended for children

Tall Tale Exaggerated, purposefully

unreliable story

Folk Tale Traditional tale passed down

through generations in a culture

…and Legends & Folk Tales & Tall Tales

Legend Story of a great character, real or imaginary; usually a

specific time and place

•  Usuallyoriginateinaspecificculture

•  Passeddownthroughgenerations,oftenthroughoraltradition

•  Speaktouniversalandtimelessthemes

•  Trytomakesenseofourexistence,helphumanscopewiththeworldinwhichtheylive,orexplaintheoriginofsomething

•  Passdownbothmoralandpracticallessonsandadvice

•  Oftenadaptedtothetime,place,&cultureofthestoryteller

Common Features

Why Comics? •  High-interestandengaging•  Readermustconstructmeaningbysynthesizingtextandimages

•  Opportunitiesforhigherlevelthinking

•  Readercontrolsthepace;rereading

•  Lessintimidatingtosomestudents

•  Visualssupporttextcomprehension

AnthologiesfromFirstSecond

TheDragonslayer:FolktalesFromLatinAmerica

JaimeHernandez

ClassicsIllustratedPapercutz

CapstoneGraphicSpinseriesFarOutFairyTales

ShannonandDeanHaleandNathanHale

Rapunzel’sRevenge&CalamityJack

TOONGraphicMythologySeries

YvanPommaux

MorefromTOONBooks

TricksterMattDembicki,editor

TheBlackBullofNorrowayKit&CatSeaton

GarethHinds GeorgeO’Connor EricShanower

UsagiYojimboStanSakai

EisnerWinner2018,BestLettering

MonstressMarjorieLiuandSanaTakeda

EisnerWinner2018,BestContinuingSeries,BestPublicationforTeens,BestPainter/MultimediaArtist,BestCoverArtist

Marvel1602NeilGaiman&AndyKubert

Thor:HeavenandEarth

PaulJenkins&ArielOlivetti

FablesWillingham,Buckingham,Leialoha

HellboyMikeMignola

EisnerWinner2018,BestSingleIssue/One-ShotHellboy:Krampusnacht

ForYoungerReaders•  BoneTallTales,JeffSmithandTomSniegoski

•  TheDragonSlayer:FolktalesfromLatinAmerica,JaimeHernandez

•  MightyJack,BenHatke

•  CapstoneGraphicSpinandFarOutFairyTalesseries

•  FirstSecondseries:FairyTaleComics,NurseryRhymeComics,FableComics

•  KidBeowulfseries,AlexisFajardo

•  Olympiansseries,byGeorgeO'Connor

•  Rapunzel'sRevengeandCalamityJack,Shannon&DeanHale&NathanHale

•  TheSharkKing,R.KikuoJohnson

•  TOONGraphicMythologyseries,YvanPommaux

•  Trickster:NativeAmericanTales:AGraphicCollection,editedbyMattDembicki

ForOlderReaders•  300,FrankMiller

•  AgeofBronze:TheStoryoftheTrojanWar,EricShanower

•  TheBlackBullofNorroway,Cat&KitSeaton(upcoming)

•  Fables,Buckingham,Willingham,andLeialoha

•  GarethHinds:Beowulf,GiftsfromtheGods,TheOdyssey

•  Hellboy&BPRDseries,Mignola,etal.

•  IKillGiants,JoeKellyandJ.M.KenNiimura

•  Marvel1602,NeilGaiman

•  OnceUponaTimeMachine,LeeNordlingandJasonRodriguezetal.

•  Pashmina,NidhiChanani

•  ThePrinceandtheDressmaker,JenWang

•  PrincessPrincessEverAfter,KatieO'Neill

•  RomeoandJuliet:TheWar,MaxWorketal.

•  Thor:HeavenandEarth,PaulJenkins,ArielOlivettiet.al