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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Stan Lee and MTV

Stan Lee Joins With MTV To Create New Comic Series
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

CHALLENGING GENRES: Comics and Graphic Novels

My new book (the first volume in a new series I edit at Sense) is now available; this blog is a companion to the work I conducted to write this book:

CHALLENGING GENRES: Comics and Graphic Novels
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The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum (graphic journalism)

  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III

Scholarship on Comics/GN

  • The "Decline" of Reading in America, Poverty and Access to Books, and the use of Comics in Encouraging Reading, Krashen
  • Adventures in genre!: rethinking genre through comics/graphic novels
  • "Junk Food is Bad For You...," Krashen and Ujiie

Teaching and Unit Ideas

  • Batman
  • Considering Censorship
  • Considering Fundamentalism
  • Considering Identity
  • Considering Life after 9/11
  • Considering the News
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Justice Unit
  • Multigenre/Adaptation Unit
  • Paul Auster: City of Glass
  • Sci-Fi Multigenre Unit: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Sons of Liberty (graphic novel web site)
  • V for Vendetta
  • Watchmen

P. L. Thomas, EdD, Associate Professor, Furman University

  • Conventional Language (online writing text)
  • Furman University Education Department
  • Living & Learning in Poverty
  • Radical Scholarship
  • Reading, Learning, Teaching Kurt Vonnegut
  • Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood
  • Reading, Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison
  • the becoming radical
  • Young Adult Literature Blog

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FYW Course Resources

  • APA Resource/ OWL
  • APA, MLA, CMS, styles compared (PDF)
  • Adaptation Unit 1
  • Adaptation Unit 2
  • Advice on Writing, Trish Roberts-Miller
  • Advice to Students and Authors: Submitting Your Work
  • Alan Moore and Adaptation
  • Chicago Manual of Style
  • Conventional Language
  • Critical Approaches to Text
  • Essay Submission Guidelines
  • FYS Support (Furman University)
  • Helpful guide to conventional usage
  • Logical Fallacies
  • More Logical Fallacies
  • Multigenre / Tom Romano
  • Plagiarism Tutorial
  • Prompt Analysis
  • Prompt Analysis for Genre Awareness (A. M. Johns)
  • Radical Scholarship
  • Style, Joseph Williams
  • Temple University Writing Center
  • The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay
  • UNO Freshman Writing Program
  • University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts
  • We Write
  • Why Are There Different Citation Styles?
  • Why are there so many Different Citation Styles?

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Challenging Genres: Comics and Graphic Novels

Challenging Genres: Comics and Graphic Novels

Resources

  • 50 Greatest Comic Characters
  • A Bibliography of Comics Articles in the Journal of Popular Culture
  • A Complete History of American Comic Books
  • ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens
  • Alex Maleev
  • anne elizabeth moore
  • Atomic Robo
  • Batman and Philosophy
  • Bronze Age Collection/ University of Iowa
  • Bryan Talbot
  • Cabbage Rabbit Review of Books: Comics
  • Center for Cartoon Studies
  • Comic Art and Graffix Gallery
  • Comic Book Covers
  • Comics [entry] in Boy Culture
  • Comics in Education
  • Comics in Education: Gene Yang
  • Comics in the Classroom
  • comics research bibliography
  • Comics Worth Reading
  • comicsclassroom wiki
  • comicsedu
  • DC Comics: 30 Essential Graphic Novels
  • Essential Graphic Novels (Comics): A Resource
  • Graphic Novel Resources
  • Graphic Novels for Mulitple Literacies
  • Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to KNow
  • Graphic Novels: Resources (UW-M)
  • Graphica in Education
  • History of the Modern Comic Book
  • ImageText
  • Introduction to Graphic Novels (podcast from readwritethink.org)
  • jen wang
  • JH Williams III
  • Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
  • lowbright.com
  • Making Comic Books
  • Neil Gaiman
  • no flying, no tights
  • Read About Comics
  • Recommended Graphic Novels for Public Libraries
  • Salon article on Alan Moore
  • Sandman annotations
  • Scott McCloud
  • Seduction of the Innocents and the Attack on Comic Books
  • Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
  • Spin, Weave, and Cut
  • Teachingcomics.org
  • The Annotated Watchmen
  • The Comic Book Project
  • The Graphic Classroom
  • The Helm
  • V for Vendetta Annotations
  • V for Vendetta Shrine
  • Watchmen and Philosophy
  • Will Eisner

Miscellaneous. . .

  • Wes Anderson's Spider-Man
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