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Category Archives: graphic novels
Teachable Moments
Now that it is summer vacation time in North America, more of our young people’s teachable moments will take place outside of school. Graphic works can play a part in the lessons they learn—especially in areas often given shorter shrift … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books, picture books, Uncategorized
Tagged all ages, animal transformation, Banksy, Birdsong: A Story in Pictures, brothers and sisters, cross-dressing, E. Eeero Johnson, early readers, empathy, gender fluidity, gender identiy, high school students, humor, James Sturm, K-1st grade, Kamishibai, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, life lessons, Minneapolis, Original Fake, peformance art, sexual orientation, storytelling, summer reading, teenagers
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Ten Plagues and Two Graphic Novels
For a few days in spring, before cable TV and streaming media, actor Charlton Heston once dominated North America’s television airwaves. Sometimes on the same weekend, Heston’s rugged features and sonorous voice would bring Biblical times to life at Passover … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, picture books
Tagged A. David Lewis, Aaron, Ben Hur; A Tale of the Christ, Ben-Hur, Bible, Bob Dacey, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlton Heston, David, Easter, Egypt, Exodus, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Fran Manushkin, Goliath, Israelites, J.T. Waldman, Jennifer Rodgers, Jesus Christ, Judaism, King David, Lew Wallace, Megillat Esther, midrash, midrashim, Miriam, Miriam's Cup: A Passover Story, Moses, movies, mpMann, Passover, Pharoah, Pharoah Ramses, Philistines, Punk Rock Jesus, Queen Esther, Ramses, Ridley Scott, Sean Murphy, ten plagues, The Lone and Level Sands, The Ten Commandments, Tom Gauld
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After the Brussels Bombings: Rethinking Heroes and Villains
This is not the blog post I had planned to write on April Fools’ Day. But reverberations from the recent Brussels bombings (and now the Lahore attacks) shifted my attention, compelling me back to 9/11 and its explosions. Read on. … Continue reading
Posted in comics, graphic novels
Tagged 9/11 attacks, Al-Quaeda, anti-Semitism, Art Spiegelman, Baba Yaga's Assistant, Belgian cartoon, bombings, Brussels, Charlie Hebdo, Christians, DC superheroes, Emily Carroll, Footnotes in Gaza, Gavrilo Princip The Assassin Who Ignited World War I, George Remi, Herge, heroes, In the Shadow of No Towers, Islamic terrorists, Joe Sacco, Journalism, Lahore, Marika McCoola, Marvel superheroes, Muslims, Nimona, Noelle Stevenson, Palestine, racism, Spiderman, terrorism, Tintin, Tintin in America, Tintin in the Congo, villains
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Let’s Be Visually Literate!
“Comics are the gateway drug to literacy.” This remark by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the graphic memoir Maus, A Survivor’s Tale (1980-1991), is not as controversial nowadays as it would have been in the 1950s. Back then, some … Continue reading
Posted in comics, graphic novels, picture books
Tagged A Birthday Cake for George Washington, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, black face, book burning, Carol Borden, Comixology, cultural literacy, Daniel Torres, diversity, Ebony White, Fagin the Jew, Francoise Mouly, Gilbert Stuart, Hansel & Gretel, Hercules, Jet Heer, Liniers, Lorenzo Mattotti, minstrel show, Neil Gaiman, Nick Sousanis, racial stereotypes, Ramin Ganeshram, reading curriculum, reluctant readers, Scholastic, Scott McCloud, The Spirit: A Celebration of 75 Years, The Spirit: The New Adventures, TOON Books, Understanding Comics, Unflattening, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, visual literacy, Will Eisner, Written and Drawn by Henrietta
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Cracking Codes and Making History: Then and Now
What connects award-winning graphic author/illustrator Gene Luen Yang and film luminary Orson Welles? Both have cracked codes—figuratively, and in Yang’s case literally, too—and made history. Welles did this back in the 1930s and 40s, when kids sometimes thought that access … Continue reading
Posted in comics, graphic novels
Tagged 1930s films, 1930s Macbeth, American Born Chinese, Bill Foster, Black History month, Black Macbeth, Boxers and Saints, Chinese-American, code switch, computer programming, Craig Voe, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, jewel theft, Jonathan Cash, Macbeth, Mike Holmes, mystery, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Norris Borroughs, Orson Welles, racism, Secret Coders, Sonny Lieuw, Superman, teen, The Last Airbender, The Shadow Hero, The Untold History of Black Comic Books, tween and up readers, upper elementary readers, Voodoo Macbeth
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It’s About Time! Beginning Anew
It’s a new year, but calendars only measure one kind of time. Its passage is also reflected in our mirrors and the clothes our youngsters outgrow. That straightforward march of days is why a new calendar year is often depicted … Continue reading
Posted in comic book collection, comics, manga
Tagged "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Dream of a Thousand Cats", Bram Stoker Award, Calliope, dark fantasy, Dave McKean, Dave Stewart, DC comics, DC superheroes, Dr. Who, Dream, Father Time, graphic storytelling, Hitler, horror, J.H. Williams III, Morpheus, Neil Gaiman, New Year, non-linear time, Shigeru Miizuki, Shigeru Mizuki's death, Showa: A History of Japan 1953 1989, teens, The Endless, The Sandman, The Sandman series, The Sandman: Dream Country, The Sandman: Endless Nights, The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition, time, Todd Klein, Vertigo Press, World Fantasy Award
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The Marvels and Pleasures of Rereading
I am smiling as I sit down today to share thoughts inspired by The Marvels (2015), the newest beautiful book by award-winning author/illustrator Brian Selznick. The Marvels continues the hybrid format—interspersing pages of prose with pages of wordless visual narrative—that … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books, picture books
Tagged A Wrinkle in Time, AIDS epidemic, Brian Selznick, British characters, compulsive rereading, Deaf Culture, deaf education, Dennis Severs House, early movie history, Great Expectations, Gunflint Trail, Hugo, hybrid novel, Kidnapped, London, Martin Scorsese, Minnesota, picture book, rereading, Shakespeare, The Adventures of Hugo Cabret, The Boy of a Thousand Faces, The Hugo Movie Companion: A Behind the Scenes Look at How a Beloved Book Became a Major Motion Picture, The Marvels, tween and teen readers, Wonderstruck, wordless storytelling
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Refugees: Haunting Thoughts at Halloween
Nowadays, Halloween is a time for kids to play at being scared or scary. Wearing fierce masks or dressing up as superheroes, children reassure themselves that monsters do not exist and that they themselves can be powerful. There is really … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels
Tagged "The Unwanted", A Game of Swallows, Alexis Siegel, Annemarie Young, Anthony Robinson, atheism, Chechnya, child refugees, Congo, elementary school, France, Gervelie's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Greg Salsado, Halloween, Hamzat's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust, Hungary, I Remember Beirut, Iraq, Jews, Joe Sacco, June Allan, Kurdish, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Loic Dauvillier, loss of faith, Malta, Marc Brown, Marc Lizano, Meltem's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Mildred Batchelder Award, Miriam Katin, Mohammed's Journey: A Refugee Diary, R.L. Stine, refugees, Seeking Refuge, Soviet, Sydney Taylor Book Award, The Little Shop of Monsters, Turkey, We Are On Our Own, World War II, Zeina Abirached
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Sunny Side Ups and Downs
Life’s ups and downs for ten-year olds are very different from those of senior citizens. Yet there is also common ground that ultimately unites ten-year old Sunny Lewin and her Gramps in Sunny Side Up (2015). This brand-new, semi-autobiographical memoir … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, memoir, picture books
Tagged 10-year olds, 1970s, 7 to 10 year olds, 8 to 14 year olds, A Year Told through Stuff, BabyMouse Goes for the Gold, Babymouse series, collage, drug abuse, Eighth Grade is Making Me Sick, Elicia Castaldi, Faith Ringgold, Florida, Ginny Davis, granddaughter, Grandfather, Jennifer Holm, Lark Pien, Matthew Holm, memoir, Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf, Newberry Award Honor Book, retirement community, school year, semi-autobiographical memoir, senior citizens, Squish series, start of school, suggested reader ages, Sunny Lewin, Sunny Side Up, superhero comics, Tar Beach, The Fourteenth Goldfish, Turtle in Paradise, tween literature
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