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This page is devoted to providing a growing database of web-resources for those interested in integrating comics into their classrooms. It was created and is maintained by Nick Sousanis in relation to his comics for educators course at Columbia University. Learn more about his comics dissertation here which is now a book from Harvard University Press, coming March 2015!

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Abel and Madden's Drawing Words Writing Pictures site - companion to their books for reading, teaching, and making comics Jessica Abel's "what is a graphic novel" - in comics form Matt Madden's History of Comics in Six Panels - clever and insightful Maria Ahokoivu's comics on teaching comics - from Dw-Wp site Gene Yang discussion of comics and education - great resource for educators Gene Yang's Comics in Education - based on his masters thesis, terrific resource for educators Gene Yang on censorship - comic for banned books week Gene Yang [|interview on comics & STEM education] - video from SmartyGirl Leadership Jarod Rosello's comic How to Move - on drawing in the classroom - in the Pank Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith's [|Power of Comics] - companion site to their book of the same name Katie Monnin's [|Teaching Graphic Novels] - blog connect to her book of the same title Ryan Goble's [|MCPOP Ning - comics in the classroom] Huge gathering of teachers and creators sharing resources on comics and education <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Canadian Website Comics in Education - resources for teaching visual narrative in K-12 classrooms <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Exercise on translating comics page into text page - from comicsineducation.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Graphic Novels & High School English (new url) - Great resource for teachers by Maureen Bakis (former url <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Graphic Novels and High School English] ) James Bucky Carter's Pedagogical paper on Teaching comics - academia.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teach/Read - [|Graphic Novel classroom notes] - great resource for teaching by Anna Smith <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Graphic Novels in the Classroom] - resource post <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Reading with Pictures] - a nonprofit effort to promote comics in the classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on Josh Elder/Reading with pictures - on Edutopia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tracy Edmunds's Slides/Pdf on integrating comics into common core - on the Reading with Pictures site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A slideshow on comics in the classroom - by Sylvia's English Online <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">An introduction to Teaching with Comics (PDF) - from University of Lethbridge <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comics in the Classroom] - lesson plans, reviews, and more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Cartoon Classroom] - UK comics/ed site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Flummery] - lesson plans for teachers and cartooning tips <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Teaching Comics] - resource site for educators, by the National Association of Comics Art Educators <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The [|Elements of Comics] - comics writing site by prof Alexander Danner <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|SANE Journal] - Sequential Art Narrative in Education <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Pencil Panel Page] - blog devotes to the study of comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">European Union Project - [|Educomics] - literacy project and more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">On [|teaching Shaun Tan's the Arrival] - Mary Catherine Miller <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Using Graphic Novels in Education - teaching 'Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong' - from CBLDF <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comics and literacy conversation] - with Jeff Smith (Bone) Neill Cameron's 5-part series on Comics & Literacy: Pt1, Pt2, Pt3, Pt4, Pt5 - from his blog (good reads) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphic Novel [|reading lesson] - Hollis Margaret Rudiger <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Humorous and importance post on [|how to read comics/combatting comics illiteracy] - by Hannah Berry <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comic for kids [|on how to read comics] - Sesame Street! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">On using comics to help students with autism - we are teachers blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Going low tech to teach literacies by Liz Losh - [|article on student organized comic con] - at UC San Diego <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mini-site on [|comics in the classroom] - courtesy U of Michigan's Language Resource Center On [|Using comics to teach transmedia] - w/Tyler Weaver from connect the Pop Interview with Tyler Weaver on Comics and Transmedia - by Henry Jenkins Carol Tilley [|on educational importance of Comics] - guest post on Connect the Pop Carol Tilley's [|TEDx talk on why kids need Comics] - video Carol Tilley Comics: a once-missed opportunity - on comics & participatory culture - from Journal of Research in Libraries & Young Adults EdTech resource article on comics creation in the classroom - lots of links Piece on Why Kids need comics - lots of resources by Louie Stowell Article on [|creating effective teaching guides for graphic novels] - by Peter Guiterrez on Diamond Bookshelf Article on Building better Readers with Graphic Storytelling - Peter Guiterrez on Reading with Pictures Article on [|Kevin Cheng using comics to convey big ideas at Companies] - Tech Crunch Video [|interview with Keegan Lannon on how comics work] - PhD Detours in Comics Article by Leonard Rifas on the history and future of Educating with Comics - in AIGA Article on [|How Comics became the hottest thing in libraries] - by Heidi MacDonald on Publishers Weekly Article on using Marvel comics in college classrooms to teach critical media - on the Conversation Strategies for [|using comics in the classroom] - from NCTE Comics in the [|Classroom educator article] - in [|the Comics Observer] A [|Case for Comics in the Classroom] - in [|the Comics Observer] Toronto Teacher's [|Approach to Using Comics in his Classroom] - brief practical ideas Article on [|schools embracing graphic novels as teaching tool] - from Sacramento Bee Article on [|using comics instead of textbooks w/lots of examples] - from Huffington Post Article on [|Changing Attitudes to Comics in the Classroom] - by Glen Downey on Sequart Discussion of Kids, Comics, and literacy at C2E2 - from Comic Book Resources Article on [|Comics in the Classroom] - from Chicago Tribune Article on Maus entering Australian University for official study - AU World News 2013 Interview w/Rob Weiner & Carrye Kay Syma on their book Graphic Novels in the Classroom - from SciFi Pulse Sarah McIntyre on getting kids to make comics - Comics adventures for kids of all ages - from the Telegraph UK <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A [|not so positive article] about comics in the classroom, comments are important... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2013 article justifying Comics in the Classroom - from Yakima Herald <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On ways of using comics in the classroom for vocabulary - from Inspired Minds (UK) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on why study comics in the classroom - from UMass Media <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on Dr Michael Bitz and the Comic Book Project - from Williamsport, PA <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on Superhero comics created to help in a mathematics classroom - from Elkhart Truth <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article for library education - comic book guy in the classroom - PDF Articles on comics in English as a Second Language classrooms - from Reading with Pictures Visual-verbal document on how comics work by kids - by Kendall Cub scouts (pdf) Article by cartoonist Danica Novgorodoff on inspiration & interdisciplinary potential of comics - Huffington Post Article by J. Stringer on Dyslexia & Comics - at Panels.net Story on Teachers using comics in their classroom - from NPR 2014 Article on Teaching Graphic Novels in the Classroom - from School Library Journal
 * Comics in the Classroom**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Matt Madden's list of constraints for making comics (Matt's 20 Lines project) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Constraint-based - 4 panel comics - ongoing in Carousel <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Abel/Madden's Panel Lottery exercise <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The original 5-Card Nancy - comics making game invented by Scott McCloud <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tom Motley's comics-generating games - from his website cartooniologist 24 Hour Comics day - make a comic in 24 hours alongside people around the world - invented by Scott McCloud <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sarah McIntyre - rules for how hourly comics day works - livejournal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The best of hourly comics day 2013 - from the Beat (variation on 24 hour comics day) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Cool remixing exercise from Lynda Barry's comics/creativity course - video <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Blog on Pictureless comics - from the Comics Grid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on John Miers's Score & Script collaborative project exploring comics mechanics - Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">John Miers on his Score&Script Project - from his site François Ayroles Palindrome comic - on WordsWithoutBorders
 * Constraint-based comics**

**Lists of Recommended Reading and Review sites**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Stergios Botzakis's Graphic Novel Resources - a blog of reviews and more for this U of Tennessee comics professor <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Reviews & Study Guides at Good Ok Bad - very useful <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Good OK Bad's Recommended graphic novels for kids - great list <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Good OK Bad's great comics for kids - excellent list <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">List of comics for six year olds - by Neill Cameron <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A visual list of comics for children - Forbidden Planet Blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Graphic Novel Reporter - reviews of essential Graphic Novels <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Graphic Novelologist - comics reviews from perspective of a 12 year old <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Guiterrez's Recommended Comics for Schools - on Connect the Pop <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Paul Gravett's site 1001 comics to read - extension of his book List of Graphic Novels in the College Classroom - recommendations by profs in the academy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Crave online's list of best comics for 2012 - diverse, educational list <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Great List of 10 Graphic Novels for the literary minded - by Kelly Thompson <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A roundup of Graphic novels worth reading - from the Chicago Tribune <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Recommended Graphics texts for jr high social studies classroom - by Mary Ann Reilly <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Recommended Graphic Texts for high schoolers - by Mary Ann Reilly <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Diverse list of 60 comics/graphic novels to read - by Buzzfeed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">List of "Fabulous" graphic novels series (for kids) - by Booktoss <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2013 recommended graphic novels - by Salon <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Great comics reads for Kids (2013) - by NY Public Library <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Deep list of recommended comics, zines, comic-like texts from 2013 - from Gridlords <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2013 Reading list of graphic novels for educators - by Comic Book Legal Defense Fund <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2013 Great list with extensive commentary of important graphic novels for the year - from the Washington Post <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Stephen Weiner's 101 best graphic novels listing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jared Gardner's mini-review of four great works of 2013 (excellent) - from Public Books <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Librarians love graphic novels - YA comics reading lists - from the Beat <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Allen Rubinstein's Comics Juice - mammoth listings for recommended graphic novel reading <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Recommended comics dealing with Religion and spirituality - from Comics Juice

Jay Hosler and Boomer study of effectiveness of comics in the classroom Study of how elementary teachers respond to comics in their classrooms - Diane Lapp, etc., authors (PDF at the link) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on benefit of reading comics in school - from CBC Article on comics effectiveness in classroom - Minnesota Star Tribune Article on resistance to comics in the classroom - EdWeek Article on Understanding comics by making comics - EdWeek TED talk by Jeremy Short on Comics as educational tools - YouTube Summary of study of comics as science literacy - w/links to study itself Anastasia Betts on Comics as tool for writing - from the comics observer Studies on How Comics help students retain knowledge - from Publishers Weekly Article on scientific support for comics and literacy - from Toon Books Blog Interview with Francoise Mouly on why comics are good for Children - from Big Think On Raising a Comics Reader - pdf by the Comics Legal Defense Fund on arguments for kids reading comics! Study on Improvement of information retention in reading graphic works over text only
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Studies and Reports **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics History** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Original use of the Cartoon from Punch Magazine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Archive of Punch Magazine - from UPenn; Punch Archive - U of Heidelberg; & Punch Archive - Project Gutenberg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">History of Comics on Comics art and Graffix gallery website <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Yellow Kid archives at Ohio State University <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Andy Konky Kru Archive of Early Comic Strips - worldwide <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Site for Origin of the Sunday Comics - Classic strips Fascinating interaction of character and panels - Sawdust Sim from 1906-7 - from the Stripper's Guide The Stripper's Guide - blog about history of the American comic strip <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Wonderfully Vulgar" - Collection of Early British comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Satirical image commentaries from the French Revolution - from Hyperallergic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">History of the first use of term "comic books" in Famous Funnies - from John Adcock <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Article revealing Marie Duval, uncredited early cartoonist behind Ally Sloper - in the Guardian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Seduction of the Innocent] - website devoted to Wertham's book and what it did to comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Article Refuting Wertham] - from Bleeding Cool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Original [|article on prof who points out Wertham's lies] - in Illinois paper <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">More on [|Refuting Wertham] - from NYTimes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview [|w/Carol Tilley on Wertham] - on comics story world <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Secret history of comic book censorship - with Carol Tilley at NYComic Con <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comics cited by Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent - scans <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Film about the Horror of Comic Books from 1955 - youtube <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Film of David Hajdu's sharing of short 1955 anti comics film - youtube Nicholas Yanes on Comic book burnings in the US in 1940s & 1950s - from SciFiPulse Article on Pretty in Ink - female cartoonists in the history of comics - from Hyperallergic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Blog exploring [|What is Manga] - Nicholas Theisen <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ryan Holmberg on Tezuka Osamu and American Comics - from The Comics Journal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">More from Holmberg on Osamu and Disney - The Comics Journal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gene Yang - [|on Boxer Rebellion project & power of pop Culture] - from his blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Study guide for Yang's Boxers & Saints - from Good OK Bad review site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with Gene Yang on Boxers & Saints - from the New Yorker Alan Baumler notes on Boxers & Saints - for English Course 1930 Chinese comics (// lianhuanhua //// - //"linked serial pictures) adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front - Slate <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Rudolphe Topffer's [|Obadiah Oldbuck comics] - at the University of Dartmouth's Library <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Possibly first African-American owned comic of the Golden Age - from Saladin Ahmed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Not comics - but [|earliest stop-motion animations] - from the Smithsonian blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">World's "oldest" comic - Scotland strip from 1825 - IBDS Conference <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Proto-comic - Bayeux tapestry discussion - at comics pusher <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">On the history of word balloons - Ptak <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The Egerton Genesis Picture Book - a Medieval "Comic Strip" - from the British Manuscript Library <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Tales of Brave Ulysses - medieval illuminated manuscript - from the British Manuscript Library <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The first woman "graphic novelist" - woodcut novels from 1920s - in HuffPo <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comics "jam" from Chicago paper in 1914 - surreal mashup <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Review of Little Big Horn - Native American Picture - New York Book Review <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on Comics-based biographies of cartoonists - from PrintMag <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Early Graphic Novels project - 1970s Graphic Novel blog - project by Paul Williams

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics and literacy outreach** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Center for Educational Pathways - the Comic Book Project Michael Bitz's project initially out of Teachers College to help teachers make comics with their students <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop - literacy comics workshops <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Marek Bennett - Comic on Multiple Intelligences - printable <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">World Comics Finland - Grassroots comics, literacy effort <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Video of power of Grassroots comics - from India <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Video on Impact of World comics inspiring journalism & justice efforts - in India & Pakistan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Water Cookbook - graphic novel on sustainability - from Sarai <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphic Narratives - site for Comics by Indian Creators - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on London Egyptian museum using comics to get kids engaged by Matt Finch <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comics Script and Assessment classroom exercise - by James Bucky Carter <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Research study on comics/visual literacy - for use as guided writing. Article on book on using comics to communicate ideas - in UX (user experience) magazine On the lingua comica project - out of Singapore Comics in the United Nations database - broad

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics and the academy** List of academic comics journals - on comics research Storify from Comics Studies Conferences ICAF 2014 & Comics Forum (UK) by A. David Lewis Educational Resource List - by Online Colleges quite Good <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Karen Green's Comic Adventures in Academia Columbia's comic book librarian extraordinaire talks comics and academia every month <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with Comics Librarian Karen Green on comics/visual culture - on the Clyde Fitch Report <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with comics Librarian Karen Green - at Mixed Media <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Paul Thomas' Adventures with text - blog for comics in the classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|Comics Studies] at University of Florida - includes Comix Scholars Listserv and many more resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Listing of [|various comics listservs] - on the Comics Studies site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|Comics Forum] - UK site discussing the educational value of comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The [|Comics Grid] - journal of comics scholarship <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The [|Comics Grid links page] - journal of comics scholarship <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The [|Comics Grid - Year One] - collection of comics scholarship <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dr [|Mel Gibson's resource page] - (not that Mel) good academic/comics resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Prof Robert Loss's [|Literature in the Gutter blog] - for Columbus College of Art/Design comics course <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Image and Narrative] - scholarly journal on comics out of Belgium <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|ImageText] - scholarly comics journal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics - formed in 2010 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Calendar of comics events and cfps] - provided by Comix Scholars [|Upcoming comics events and cfps] - University of Southern Denmark's list (international) University of Florida's [|Comics Studies Program] - within UF's English Program Broadview Entertainment Arts University [|Bachelors of Fine Arts in Comics and Sequential Art] - in Utah [|Comics Research Bibliography] - list of resources, dissertations organized by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'bitstream vera sans',verdana,sans-serif;">The //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'bitstream vera sans',verdana,sans-serif;">Bonn Online Bibliography for Comics Research //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'bitstream vera sans',verdana,sans-serif;"> - international bibliographic database for scholarly literature about comics, graphic novels, manga & related <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'bitstream vera sans',verdana,sans-serif;">A Comics research bibliography - by Mike Rhode Website of the [|Comic book professor] - Mark D. White [|Comics Forum]'s [|Scholars directory] - listing of comics scholars worldwide California College for the Arts [|announces MFA in comics] - in SF [|International Bande Dessinée Society] - site for conversation on French comics [|Graphixia] - a collaborative, scholarly comics blog Reflections [|on the 100th issue of Graphixia] Essay [|Towards a philosophy of teaching comics] - on Graphixia Interview with [|Jessica Abel on the artist in the comics classroom] - Matt Finch's [|Books and Adventures] site Interview with [|Yen Yen Woo on DimSumWarriors, comics & Literacy] - Matt Finch's [|Books and Adventures] site Interview [|w/Nick Sousanis on comics and the classroom] - Matt Finch's [|Books and Adventures] site Pt1 of interview w/[|Steve Saville on publishing Comics in the classroom] - Matt Finch's [|Books and Adventures] site Pt2 of Interview w/[|Steve Saville on comics/creativity in the classroom] - Matt Finch's [|Books and Adventures] site Interview with [|Walter Biggins on Comics Studies by Jeet Heer] at the Comics Journal Abstract for presentation [|Back to the Drawing Board: exploring visual rhetoric through comic art] - by Susan Kirtley, Portland State U Web-chat on Graphile-Complexity and Graphic Novels in education - w/Stergios Botzakis, David Low, and more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on academics taking comics seriously - from the BBC

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Illustrated Comics Syllabus for Laurence Musgrove's comics course - on the illustrated professor <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Syllabus from Jonathan Bass's [|Composing Graphic Narratives Course] at Rutgers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Syllabus from [|Aaron Kashtan's Comics & Contemporary Media Course] - at Georgia Tech (Aaron's GWU talk on the Graphic Novel) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Syllabus from [|Henry Jenkin's Comics & Graphic Storytelling Course] - at USC <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Course outline for William Kuskin's Coursera comics class - online course <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Suggested course outline for teaching comics in Medieval Classrooms - by Forrest Helvie <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Notes and sketches (!) for a visual thinking course - by Laurence Musgrove + exam in comics form that students made <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Derek Mainhart's Teaching comics to teens - on Drawing Words & Writing Pictures site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Exercise of drawing as a response to reading - from Laurence Musgrove's course <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Frank Santoro's comics making correspondence course - some details <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Syllabus for Janice Fernheimer's Eng401: Graphic Representations of Israeli-Palestinian conflict(s) - U of Kentucky <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Syllabus for Christoper Pizzino's Comics & Graphic Narratives Course - U of Georgia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Syllabus for Chris Gavaler's course School for Superheroes - from Hooded Utilitarian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Syllabus for Dale Jacobs's Comics Theory Course - at University of Windsor Charles Hatfield's comics courses and syllabi - California State University Northridge <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Assignment - tracing paper & annotating comics - from Mark Sample's ENGL 300 Graphic Novel Course Assignment - digitally annotating comics - from Amanda Starling Gould's course (based on Sample's)
 * Syllabi**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Educational Comics Makers** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jorge Cham's [|Piled High and Deeper] - PhD comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jay Hosler's [|Active Synapse Comics] - Science comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jay Hosler's Student-Made comics on animal behavior - from his comics-biology course <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Interview with Newcastle Science Comic Team - on Teaching physics through comics - from the Beat <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ryan Claytor's [|Elephant Eater Comics] - comics teacher and maker <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Matt Dembicki's [|blogsite] - DC comics maker <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Andrew Wales's [|Panel Discussions] Art teacher and doctoral student Wales' musing on education and life through comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Nick Sousanis's [|Spin Weave and Cut] - philosophical essays in comics form <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For teachers: [|Building trust in classrooms with comics] - Guest post on Drawing Words/Writing Pictures <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Presentation on [|communicating research in comics form] - by Selina Lock of Coventry U Library <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on [|Gareth Morris conducting research in comics form] - in LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Site for Damian Duffy's academic comics work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">John Miers' comics site - UK comics maker/researcher Rubaiat Habib's partial comics dissertation - Singapore <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Comic on what teachers make - by Taylor Mali/Zen Pencils <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Yo Miss - A serialized graphic novel about life in the trenches of urban education by Lisa Wilde <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Comics making workshop for kids - Neill Cameron's blog

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics makers' sites** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dean Haspiel shows his process - from breakdowns to scripts to finishes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jessica Abel - on using indesign for scripting comics re: Bechdel - from her blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Raina Telgemeier on how a graphic Novel is born and raised - from Inside a Dog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Matt Fraction on breaking down a Batman Year One page to practice script writing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Scott McCloud's site - he's Scott McCloud, 'nuff said! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Writer Kurt Busiek's site - creator of Astro City, Marvels, and many of other smart comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jim Ottaviani's GT Labs - comics about science & history <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">R. Sikoryak's site - the creator of [|Masterpiece Comics] (mashups of cartoons and lit) and the comics [|Carousel] slideshow <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comics artists offer their 10 Rules for Drawing Comics - ongoing blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">James Sturm comic The Sponsor - on pursuing your work

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Little Lit] - imprint by Spiegelman & Mouly <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Power Lunch] by Dean & Trippe <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jeff Smith's [|Bone Series] - by Scholastic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comics for [|Kids reading list] - on Stowell's Cosmology
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kid Lit **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Tools for making comics** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|ComicLife]software, easy to drop images and add text, promotes itself as having: " // Zero Learning Curve // — so easy, you and your dog will be making comics in minutes." Most popular one out there. Most flexible too. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Printable Comics Templates] - big start big end panels <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Lego Comics builder] - looks like fun! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|Kerpoof] V. simple, painfully cutesy - lots of template drawing tools. Suggests possibility of integrating user photos, images from google maps, etc., to recreate scenes without drawing skills. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|ComicSketch] Simple, gets you started drawing panels right away. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|BitStrips for Schools] : Lots of good characters, kidsy, cute decent model. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|Comic Creator] : Allows users to: choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet" My assessment - sucktastic. But, the ease of use and ability to drop characters, etc., suggests there are better out there. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">  [|Make Belief Comics] : Pretty cool, easy to use, user friendly - good characters to choose from - promising. About founder Bill Zimmerman:  A journalist and prize–winning newspaper editor, Zimmerman for 13 years created an interactive, syndicated Student Briefing Page for Newsday newspaper to teach young people about current events. It pioneered the use of interactive techniques found in his books to encourage young readers to express their opinions about the world they live in and brought in hundreds of thousands of letters. The page was nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize. At Newsday, Bill also created a series of comic books to teach history and current events to young readers. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Balloon Talk], samples of dialogue/thought/etc balloons - from [|Blambot] fonts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Resource-filled [|article on comics making tools for teachers] - plus video with 26 tips for using comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article with [|Five Comics generator tools for educators] - from Marygrove college in Detroit! Comics generators and literacy - [|interview w Bill Zimmerman] on Connect the Pop Comics [|generation tools] - on connect the pop More [|comics generation tools: bitstrips] - from connect the pop Article on Bitstrips - from the Guardian Lesson on using an ipad to make comics with students - from Nathan Stevens

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**MiniComics Making Guides** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Minicomic] @ BigTimeAttic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A simple [|Minicomic] guide <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on [|making mini comics] @ comics reporter <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Minicomic making] by the Cartoonists League <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Minicomic video] - on YouTube <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Making a simple [|Mini-Comic] - by Abel and Madden <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jessica Abel's [|mini-comics making guide] - extensive! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comics manifest by [|Josh Shalek] - on 5 page [|folded minicomic] site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cool [|Muster List of Mini-Comics] and how to get them... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Guide and printout for [|making accordion style mini-comics] - by Grant Thomas [|Foldy Comics] - guide and examples Alec Longstreth's minicomic on making/publishing minicomics - talk at the Center for Cartoon Studies Lydia Wysocki's mini comic guide to making mini comics - the pdf of her comic Comic on How to Make your Own Biographical Comic Strip - Matt Boyce on DW&WP Frank Young & David Lasky - talk how to collaborate on a graphic novel - regarding their book the Carter Family

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Drawing, Simplified** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Cynicalman] - longrunning mini comic by Hamtramck legend Matt Feazell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|XKCD] - webcomic of math, romance, humor... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Neat [|visual thinking exercises/curriculum] - based on Christopher Niemann's work

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics Culture Sites** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|The Comics Journal] - long running comics commentary magazine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interviews [|Sequential Highway] - new pub, looks good <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comics Reporter] - like the name says... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Site Graphic Policy - Comics and Politics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Irving and Kushner's [|Graphic NYC] - comics creators in NYC <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Drawn Word] - Interviews, articles, and comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|The Hooded Utilitarian] - comics cultural criticism site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Academic writing on comics [|the Comics Grid] - peer-reviewed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Beat] - blog of comics culture <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Bleeding Cool] - news, rumors on comics (superhero genre oriented) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Newsarama] - comics news, previews, and interviews (superhero genre oriented) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comicbookresources] - news, reviews, and previews site (superhero genre oriented) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comics @ IGN.com] - pop news and reviews (superhero genre oriented) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Andy Earl's [|Comic Archives] - early history of comics site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">John Adcock's [|Yesterday's Papers] - profiling comics past <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Info on political cartoonist [|Thomas Nast] - from Adcock's blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Info on [|Randall Caldecott] - from Adcock's blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1863's [|Mokeanna] - from Adcock's blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comic Book Radio show] - audio archives and more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Neil Cohn's Emaki Productions] - comics scholar's philosophical explorations on visual language - Now at Visual Language Lab - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comics worth reading] - comics commentary blogsite <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Comics Reporter] - comics site by Tom Spurgeon <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians] - CLAW! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|No Flying No Tights] - graphic novel review site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comic Attack] - reviews and comics journalism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Good Comics for Kids [|best of 2011] - on School Library Journal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on[| comics heroes initiative] - from the NYTimes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Ink/Tart] - journal devoted to women working in graphic art Graphic section of Words without Borders - international online journal of writing, poetry, comics The Risha Project - consortium of comics sites intended to connect north African, Middle Eastern, & European comics artists

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Institutions and Conventions** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">MoCCA [|Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art] - NYC <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Toonseum] - Pittsburgh's comic museum <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Center for Cartoon Studies] - Vermont comics school <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The [|Sequential Artists Workshop] - Florida school for developing new cartoonists <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival] - intimate and educational The [|British Cartoon Museum] - in London NYC [|Comic Book Marketplace] - convention Comics and NYC [|Symposium]at Columbia U (March 2012) [|MoCCA-Fest] - small press/comics expo in NYC, sponsored by MoCCA (Annual) [|Space Convention] - in Columbus, Ohio (Annual) NYC's FlameCon - LGBTQ comics con

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Online Archives** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Lambiek Comiclopedia - illustrated compendium of cartoonists around the world <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Golden Age Comics] Archives <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comic Books Plus - [|Public Domain Comics Database] - Golden age and more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Digital Comics Museum - downloads of Golden Age comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the [|Complete Will Eisner P.S. Archives] - at Virginia Commonwealth U The [|Complete Winsor McCay Little Nemo!] - scans from the [|Comic Strip Library] Winsor McCay's Rare Bit Fiend - scans from the Comic Strip Library Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur - first keyframe animation - bleeding cool The [|Comic Strip Library] - online database of public domain strips Chinese comics archives from the 1920s - Lianhuanhua (linked serial pictures) - from the University of Hawaii Archive of Educational Comics - University of Nebraska Lincoln

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics Library Collections** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Michigan State University archives] - impressively extensive, run by archivist Randy Scott <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">List of [|comics research libraries] - provided by Michigan State University <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Bowling Green State University's Comics Library archive] - housed in popular culture <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Cartoon Library and Museum] at Ohio State University <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Columbia University's [|Butler Library Comics/Graphics Novel collection] - curated by the supercool Karen Green <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on the [|Columbia U collection] - from the Wall St. Journal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hal Foster at [|Syracuse University] - Library Collection <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">First US "comic book" [|Ferdinand Flipper] - at Dartmouth Library List of Comics research library collections - at comicsresearch.org by Gene Kannenberg Jr. Underground comix collection - at Iowa State University of Nebraska's collection of educational and government comics here and here - available online U of Florida's comics collection - archive

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Stergios Botzakis's explanation what is a graphic novel - from Graphic Novel Resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Scott McCloud's TED Talk - from 2005 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Audio podcast with Scott McCloud from UCSB 2013 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Audio interview with Scott McCloud, comprehensive - Glassworks Magazine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Inventing comics - a look at McCloud's definition of comics by Dylan Horrocks <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Derik Badman's essay Panel & Pictures, defining comics as a "family" - from his blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An academic article examining comics definitions by Aaron Meskin Blog post exploring comics definitions by Patrick Holt Post examining whether comics should be defined - on pencil/panel/page Essay exploring definitions of Sequential Narrative Art - by Salgood Sam Noah Berlatsky - considering comics as a genre rather than medium - lots of conversation in the comments Grawlix - symbols in comics On Grawlixes and more - from FastCo Design On the origin of the grawlix - from Slate Comic - Onomatopoeia gone mad by Kurtzmann and Wood - from Bleeding Cool Pascal Lefevre's - more than 100 comics related words - in 8 languages! (awesome list) Andrei Molotui's list of terms for comics studies - on the comics forum Andrei Molutui's list of terms for comics studies illustrated! - super cool!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comics definitions articles **

Liz Losh & Jonathan Alexander on Making Things Graphic as a form of interpretation - re: their book Understanding Rhetoric: A graphic guide to writing Aaron Humphrey's abstract for talk on What Can we learn from Educational comics? - at Comics & the Multimodal World conference Aaron Kashtan's text for his talk on multimodality - from Comics & the Multimodal World conference Aaron Kashtan - teaching multimodal literacy with comics - DragonCon talk Review of Dale Jacobs' Graphic Encounters: Comics & the sponsorship of multimodal literacy - by Aaron Humphrey on the comics Grid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comics and [|multimodality] - scholarly articles <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Comics and Literacies] - sequential art and literacy intersections <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Damian Duffy on [|Comics and Multimodality] - good information <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Taylor Quimby [|on multimodality in comics] - focus on speech balloons in Sandman Damian Duffy on [|designing a multimodal learning environment] - comics as foundation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Wiki page on [|Comics Studies] - some good references to Multimodality <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Julian Darius on Tensions between Text & Image in Comics - from Sequart
 * Comics and Multimodality**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Articles** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Henry Jenkins & Scott McCloud discuss the future of comics - with video <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Neil Cohn on the architecture of visual narrative comprehension - from Frontiers in Psychology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with Neil Cohn - on his study of the grammar of comics - from the Guardian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article by Neil Cohn - on breaking comics grammar to learn it - from Visual Linguist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on Neil Cohn on the Science of Comics - from fastco.design <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Video of Neil Cohn talking visual language - YouTube Fantom Comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Neil Cohn's discussion of Australian sand narratives - referencing Dr Jennifer Green's book on the same - from his site <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Bill Kartalopoulos on the importance of comics in internet age (nice bit on meta-bi-lingualism) - from HuffPo <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on [|Multilingualism in American Born Chinese] - by Philip Smith on the Comics Journal [|How to read Nancy] - wonderful analysis exercise by Karasik and Newgarden <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2015 Interview (podcast/transcript) with Scott McCloud about The Sculptor - Dan Berry/Make It Then Tell Everybody <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with [|Scott McCloud] by Comics historian Hillary Chute <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A look at McCloud's Understanding Comics 20 years later - at Ad Astra Comix <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|A Dazzling Lack of Respectability] - comics and academic history article by David Huxley on [|Comics Forum] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comics Scholarship 2.0] - article by Ernesto Priego on [|Comics Forum] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Supergods and Spirituality [|ComicCon Interview] with Grant Morrison and the Chopras <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hooded Utilitarian's [|survey of top 100 comics internationally] - extensive survey, good place to find out about comics worth checking out <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|NYTimes article on comic book art] as high art in books <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Scott Marsden on tension between art and comics/words and pictures - from Graphixia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gene Yuen Lang on [|Comics and Christianity] - on the Jewish origins of each <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mindscape of Alan Moore - documentary film now online <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Analyzing symmetry in Watchmen - Fure and Moulthrop - awesome analysis of Ch V of Watchmen... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Symmetry in William Blake and Alan Moore - by Roger Whitson from Image-Text <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Thinking on Alan Moore & the Fourth Dimension - by Mark Bernard & James Bucky Carter from Image-Text <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Panel w/Karasik/Mazzucchelli/Auster/Spiegelman discussing City of Glass - at CAB <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Coverage of Spiegelman's performance piece "Wordless" - by Brian Cremins <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Examination of [|Ben Katchor's work & vanishing memory] - on the Comics Grid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview w Robert Berry on Ulysses adaptation - "comics becomes the purest language for recounting memory" (on Broken Frontier) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Eric Berlatsky on 4D Time in Comics - at Hooded Utilitarian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on [|Art & Comics & Splash Pages] - at Hooded Utilitarian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Study guide to [|Nao of Brown] - at [|Good Ok Bad] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Study guide to [|Asterios Polyp] - at [|Good Ok Bad] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Business profs using [|graphic Novels as Textbooks] Article in the Oklahoma Daily <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with author of the [|Atlas Black] - business education graphic novel <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">More on [|comics and economics] - article with links to other resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Will comics save Business Journalism? - [|article in] PSK <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ottomaniac's Post on [|Moore and a New Tomorrow] - blog article on Moore and Veitch's amazing "four floors of fear" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lynda Barry [|interview] and profile of her writing workshops at the NYTimes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lynda Barry interview on her creativity courses - 2013 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lynda Barry comic on 20 stages of reading - Washington Post <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lynda Barry's Two Questions on creative process - from the Great Comic Book Heroes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lynda Barry 2014 Interview on importance of making art - from Art News <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with Gabrielle Bell on autobiographical comics & being an introvert - from Huffington Post <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with Chris Ware on Building Stories + thoughts on Common Core - from Salon 2014 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview (excerpt) with Chris Ware - on process and creativity 2013 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Panel depicted in comics form w/ Chris Ware, Seth, and Ivan Brunetti - by Gordon McAlpin <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comics Studies articles on [|Documentary Comics] - University of Dundee Course Interview with Brooke Gladstone on the Influencing Machine (and Part Two) MLA 2012 comics sessions - includes panel on comics and picture books Marc Clegg's 1978 thesis on understanding comics - early work on comics and theory Short essay on Reading Comics - by Dr. Chris Murray Bank Street mini course on teaching with comics - by Ayers and Alexander-Tanner U of Dundee Scotland Comics studies - Fun Home & Persepolis - discussed Classroom notes on - Teaching and Learning from Persepolis - by Jeff Brackett TED talk on visual narrative and teaching Persepolis - on comicsineducation.com U of Dundee Scotland comics studies - Eddie Campbell - discussion of autobiography and metafiction Eddie Campbell - essay on comics "The Literaries" - in The Comics Journal Comics College article on Phoebe Gloeckner - Robot 6 Blog Comics College article on Marjane Satrapi - on Robot 6 Blog Comics College article on David B. - on Robot 6 Blog Comics College article on Winsor McCay - on Robot 6 Blog Comics College-Robot 6 - list of all articles Noah Berlatsky on Postmodernism and Comics - from Hooded Utilitarian Bart Beatty - interview on comics vs. art - on the comics grid Interview with Paul Gravett on his book Comics Art - from Comics Bubble Article on Paul Gravett's UK exhibition Comics Unmasked - from the Guardian Article on increasing connections between Comics & Fine Art worlds - from ArtNews Series of articles devoted to the [|comics works of Neil Gaiman] - on Image TexT Secret Origin of the [|term Graphic Novel] - predating Eisner's usage Peter Sanderson on [|1986 the Year That Changed Comics Part 1] and [|Part Two] - in Sequart Julian Darius on [|Why Comics Have failed to Achieve respect since 1986] - in Sequart The business of the strips - [|economics/comics historical essay] by David Westbrook Review of book [|Multicultural Comics] by Orion Kidder Review of Hannah Miodrog's Comics and Language - by Neil Cohn Pynchon's [|comic book mythology]- in Gravity's Rainbow Academic project on [|Creativity and Project Management] - using comics NYT [|Obituary of Anthony Horton] - man who lived beneath NYC and co-author of graphic novel Pitch Black Interview [|with Art Spiegelman] on the BBC 2014 article on Françoise Mouly & Toon Books educational comics - in NYTimes 2013 Interview with [|Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly] - National Post 2014 Interview with Francoise Mouly on Toon Books & education - Muth Magazine by Meg Lemke 2013 interview with Francoise Mouly on Toon Books/comics as literacy gateway - from Design Mom Review of Art Spiegelman's 2013 Retrospective at Jewish Museum - NYTimes Review of Spiegelman's Jewish Museum Retrospective "in the shadow of art spiegelman" - from Hyperallergic Review by Alisa Solomon of Spiegelman's Jewish Museum Retrospective - from The Nation 2013 Interview w/Art Spiegelman by Molly Crabapple - vice.com Jeet Heer's twitter essay - on Spiegelman, Maus as Detective Fiction - Art Matters blog Alan Moore's [|review of Arcade magazine] - from RAW Interview [|with Derf Backderf on Dahmer] - in Young Adult Lit mag Jack [|Kirby through Art History] on [|Abstract Comics]' site Andrei Molotiu [|on Abstract comics and Geometry] - on the Abstract Comics blog [|Kirby and Collage] - from Salon Wally Wood's [|22 Panels that Always Work] - via Oeming on Bleeding Cool The Original [|Wally Wood's 22 Panels that Always work] - flickr One more collection of [|Wood's 22 Panels] - on Bleeding Cool Article on [|Ellipses (spatial temporal jump between panels) in Gilbert Hernandez's Poison River] - David Turgeon (references Harry Morgan) Article on Book [|Lost Comics of the 1960s] - in Mother Jones Bill Griffith's Zippy [|on comics attaining "legitimacy"] - cartoon Links from the 2012 U of Chicago comics and philosophy symposium - featuring 17 major comics folks Interview with Barbara Postema on Silent Comics - from Ryerson University (CA) Malwina Chabocra - Magic in the Gutter, reflections on comics - w/references to McCloud, Madden, etc Greg Carpenter series in search of a Comics Canon - parts One, Two, and Three - on Sequart Michael Dooley article on cartoonists dealing with Censorship - in PrintMag The censored comics of Mike Diana - from Lambiek Comiclopedia Bob Mankoff on the link between cartoons and tweets - from the New Yorker <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on Applied Cartooning Program at CCS - from the BBC

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Page and Thematic Analyses** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An analysis of [|Frank Miller's composition] for a page from Wolverine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An analysis of a [|unique Marshall Roger's composition] - for a Silver Surfer Page <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An analysis of [|David Mazzuchelli] - from Batman Year One <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An analysis of an [|Eddie Campbell page] - from From Hell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An analysis of a [|Frank Quitely page] - from Flex Mentallo <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Overview analysis of [|Neal Adams' X-Men art] - from Comics Grid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On [|Irony in the Dark Knight Returns] - visual-verbal essay at the Comics Grid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pieta [|homage covers] and [|still more]- from various artists/publishers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Not analyses - [|but links to various Comics writers' scripts] - good diversity <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alan Moore's "rule" for 35 words per panel - courtesy Brian Cronin Comic Book Resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comics [|reading visual analysis] - from YouTube <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Video essay - [|From panel to frame, analysis of Scott Pilgrim] - by Drew Morton <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analysis of [|Adapting Harvey Pekar to film] - from [|Graphixia] Analysis of John Hankiewicz's "the Kimball House" - on The Comics Journal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analysis of [|Intertextuality in Watchmen] - from Sequart <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analysis of [|Karasik & Mazzucchelli's adaptation of Auster's City of Glass] - on Comics Forum <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analysis of [|themes in Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp] - Forrest Helvie in Sequart <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analysis of [|visual linguistics in Mazzucchelli's City of Glass/Asterios Polyp] - by Henry Jenkins <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|A look at XMen pages over the ages] - how panel/text use has changed in last 40 some years, v. cool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analysis of [|Huizenga's Balloon Page] - exploring literal presence of word balloons in Comics Grid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analysis of how speech balloons can be used to show simultaneous dialogue - Frank Bramlett in Hooded Utilitarian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article series from conference discussing Thierry Groensteen's theories of panel composition - on Hooded Utilitarian Eric Wong on How Comics Visualize Sound - Sequart Laura Sneddon on Wordless Comics - Comic Book Grrrrl Artist Igor Kordey - design of page structure - Neil Cohn's blog Neil Cohn on the interaction between narrative structure & page layout - in Frontiers in Psychology

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics dealing with war/trauma** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Graphic Novel helps Navy corpsmen cope] - from the LA Times on "the Docs" - produced by the Navy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on [|the Navy's "The Docs"]- for helping Navy Corpsmen cope with Trauma <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Online copy of[| the Navy's "the Docs"] - for dealing with the stress and danger of the military <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interactive [|Comic-Game for training for soldiers] in Afghanistan <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|Comic artist embedded] with US military in Afghanistan starting in 2010. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|War is Boring] : war correspondent blog and cartoons, with tagline, "we go to war so you don't have to." <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|Comics go to war] : A look at several comics written from war situations. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Afghanistan embedded [|comic journalism] Course on [|wartime comics] - article in comicbookresources.com Karen Green article on [|Ritual Suicide/War] - on comixology Health Care Reform [|explained in Graphic Novel Form] - by Jonathan Gruber Comics as [|propaganda] - and other aspects Propaganda comic in [|Granada] - produced by CIA in 1983-4 Comics as [|Propaganda in Cyprus & US] - from Bleeding Cool Article on how the Government used comics as propaganda - from Reason.com Chilean how to read Donald Duck - imperialist ideology in the Disney Comic Article on [|comic helping imprisoned youth return to life] - from Bleeding Cool Prepping for [|Zombie Apocalypse with comics] - by Matt Finch on the [|CDC's Zombie Preparedness comic] Article on children's comic Azzi in Between on refugee status - from [|Playing by the Book] (children's books blog) Comic on a refugee's story from Iran - Red Cross website Website for Comics for Heroes - site to donate comics to soldiers/others Comic of soldier's recovery after Afghanistan in DC hospital - Daily Beast Comic recounting veteran's struggle with returning home - by Jess Ruliffson Sketches and stories of returning soldiers by Richard Johnson - in Washington Post Kate Polak on teaching Deogratias (detailing the Rwandan genocide) - from Hooded Utilitarian

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics and Narrative Medicine** Graphic Medicine - resource site for graphic illness narratives Sketchnotes from the 2014 Graphic Medicine Conference - by Shannon Loomer Roundup of 2014 Graphic Medicine Conference - Whit Taylor in The Comics Journal Introducing Graphic Medicine by the Bad Dr. & Comics Nurse - on the NY Academy of Medicine Talks from the 2014 Graphic Medicine conference - on YouTube How comics are improving doctor practice - from the BBC Article on comics and medicine - in the Conversation UK <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Strip Aids and its sequel Strip Aids USA - anthology AIDS comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Death talks about Life - Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean AIDS comic narrated by Death from Sandman <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Blue Pills - a Positive Love Story - French comic on living with AIDS (translated) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Comic project with kids on dealing with HIV - Cardiff University, South Africa <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tom Hart's devastating comic on loss of 2 year old daughter - webcomic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tom Humberstone's comic on dealing with Crohn's disease - amazing 24 hour comic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">NYTimes article on addressing Asperger's Syndrome using comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article on comics as Graphic Medicine - great overview <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike Keeper's comic on Crohn's Disease - via graphic medicine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Document on Graphic novels addressing illness narratives - provided by Columbia U's Marsha Hurst & Pat Stanley <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scott McCloud post on future of comics - including role in narrative medicine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article summing up conference on comics and medicine - in Toronto <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ellen Forney's Marbles - memoir on bipolarism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article on bipolarism & Forney's Marbles - in Huffington Post <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Michael Bise's Life on the List - comic about being on the waiting list for a heart transplant <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article on Narrative Medicine (no comics) - from the Journal of the American Medical Association <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article on using comics to prevent surgery errors - in Medscape Today <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr. Michael Green's comic on preventing surgery errors - article/comic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Podcast on Diversity in comics: race, gender, sexuality... - on the Comics Alternative Tumblr Better-drawn - comics by people dealing with long term mental or physical illnesses Joe Ollman's comic on dealing with his father's death - at The Comics Journal Online Comic on Depression - Hyperbole and a half How Comics represent Depression - from pencil-panel-page Short list of comics dealing with health issues - blog Die Awesome Paula Knight on responding to 'do you have children?' - infertility comic Paula Knight's comics on fertility, miscarriage, and childlessness - from her site Luchie comic on being introverted - lovely Kriota Willberg examination of EC comic on cancer - insightful Adam Bessie & Dan Archer on Pink Ribbon Envy - Brain Cancer comic - from the Nib <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On using comics to help students with autism - we are teachers blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Drawing Autism - [|a visual tour by kids w/autism]- on Brainpickings <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pat Grant's comic about his father - powerful piece... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comic about dealing with Rape & Sexual Abuse - from Nina Burrowes - the cartooning psychologist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Designer working w/Mayo Clinic on patient narratives - from Arcade <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Cartoonist Julia Wertz on dealing with Alcohol and Depression - from Narrative.ly <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Interview w/ Ian Williams founder of Graphic Medicine - in GP Online Comic on motherhood and cartooning - by Rina Ayuyang Call for articles on intersections of comics and mental health - Asylum Magazine (Sept 2014) Rachel Masilamani's "The Subject" & Spontaneous, Inevitable, Habitual - in Mutha Magazine Ryan Alexander-Tanner's comics interviews with on miscarriage - on Medium.com Kate Waldman on Comics & Mental Illness (Marbles, Swallow me Whole...) - in Slate Site for public service Comics with Problems - archive The Comics Nurse - when comics and health care converge - Mayo Clinic site

Introduction to Comics Journalism, lots of resources - by Adam Bessie Lukas Plank's Drawn Truth - interactive essay on Comics Journalism - very useful Interactive comic on [|Chicago 2012 NATO protest] - from cartoon movement [|Cartoon Movement] - comics journalism site Interactive Comic on homelessness in Brazil - from Cartoon Movement Interactive comic [|Disaster Capitalism] - on [|archcomix.com] Online & Tablet [|Comics Journal Symbolia] - launched in 2012 Article on [|Symbolia] - comics journalism Article on Comics & Visual Journalism - from Columbia Visuals Ben Woo on [|Sacco/Comics Journalism] - paper Joe Sacco - Great War digital annotations - Slate Douglas Wolk - on Sacco's Great War - Washington Post Significant [|Political Cartoons] - from Victor Navasky's book on the same (Buzzfeed) Lessons on political cartooning from cartoonist Jeff Danziger - The Comics Journal Art Spiegelman interview on importance of Cartoonists/Charlie Hebdo - Democracy Now Comic by Josh Neufeld on comics journalism - "comics don't have to be funny!" Josh Neufeld - comics journalism on Hurricane Sandy - from medium.com Josh Neufeld on what is comics journalism - in the medium.com Andy Warner's poverty cartoon infographic - from KQED The Graphic History Project - a project about graphic activism by the Graphic History Collective Meet the Somalis - illustrated stories of Somalis in 7 cities in Europe - on Open Society Foundations Clever visual journalism on adulteration of Olive Oil by Nicholas Blechman - in the NYTimes Visual story on what a guard sees inside a detention center - from the Global Mail <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on comics journalism - and history of comics as journalism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Book reviews in cartoon form by Ward Sutton Kristen Radtke's illustrated book review of Hall of Small Mammals - in Oxford American <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Adam Bessie - This School is not a pipe - drawn by Josh Neufeld <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lukas Plank's comic & site on comics journalism ethics - comprehensive <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on Paul Buhle's Radical Jesus/Graphic History of Faith - from Truthout <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Essay on working as a comics journalist - by Susie Cagle <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comic on travel as a woman - Natalie Nourigat <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Graphic Novels on historical, social, & environmental issues - mentioned in the Independent (UK) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Feeding 9 Billion - Food Crisis comic - from Feeding 9 billion's website <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Petter Bagge comic on teaching and adjunct unionization - on Reason.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Erin Polgreen - on how comics work for powerful journalism - from Harvard's Nieman reports <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comic on the role of climate change in the Syrian conflict - from Medium.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on How Comics Journalism Brings stories to life - in Columbia Journalism Review Interactive comics journalism site on Michael Brown/Ferguson shooting - by Dan Archer Josh Neufeld - Crossing the Line, on racial profiling at US Borders - from the Nib/Medium Keith Aoki's Bound by Law, comic on copyright - at Open Culture
 * Comics Journalism**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics and Architecture/Sculpture** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Stuart Immonen's [|Icosahedral Comic] - interesting possibilities <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sousanis' [|Little Boxes] - an essay about categories - boxes - that can be made into a box <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Sculpture and comics] - conference as part of Comics Forum <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Sculpture and comics essays] - on comics forum site (this is #2 of a 3 part series) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Architecture and Comics] - series on Hooded Utilitarian Article on what comics tell us about cities & how cities are depicted in comics - from the Guardian UK Website city strips - famous comic cities with text, action removed - just cities! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article on [|Citizens of No Place] - on Comics Grid Architecture book in Comics - [|Yes is More] - an Archicomic Hannah Means-Shannon on [|BCGF conversation between Ware, Spiegelman, & R McGuire] - on the Comics Beat Review/Close reading of Richard McGuire's Here - by Tim Peters in Harpers Chris Ware on Richard McGuire's Here - in the Guardian Behind the scenes of Richard McGuires Here - 5 Dials Ilan Manouach's Shapereader Textured comic for blind readers! - very cool Article on Life: a comic for the blind - fantastic idea, hope it opens new possibilities Liana Kerr's textual, panel-by-panel description of Watchmen - for blind readers Mexican comic in braille - from Cool Hunting Interview with Georgia Webber on her comic Dumb about damaging her vocal cords - in Paper Darts Fantastic list of experimental comics - from Flavorwire Experimental interactive interwoven comic by luetkemj Jimenez Lai - website on architecture and comics - author of Citizens of No Place Lovely comic about sign language as 3D communication - by Matt Boyce Interactive web comic Undine - by Melanie Hölscher The Story Museum, UK transformed into a giant comic - by Neill Cameron Asher Klassen's [|walk through comic book installation] - senior thesis, cool project! Experimental hypercomics - from E-Merl <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Abstract Mondrian-esque comic - by Frédérique Rusch <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maps in Comics - Comic Cartography - Tumblr <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tom Motley's multidirectional, die-based comic - 46,656 possible stories!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comics Oubapo - constraints of form - poetry in comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Drunken Boat - Oubapo comics poetry site - with examples Matt Madden on haiku comics - from his blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Matt Madden's list of constraints for making comics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comics-Poetry Journal - Ink Brick - launched in 2014 Alexander Rothman's Versequential - comics poetry site Bianca Stone's Poetry Comics - site Hillary Chute on Comics and Poetry "Secret Labor" - at Poetry Foundation Interview w/ Julian Peters his Comics versions of T.S. Elliot's poems - from the Boston Globe Matt Madden interview on 6 Treasures of the spiral - a comics sestina Nicolas Labarre's comics poetry translation (E. Dickinson) - translated from French Brazilian Comics Poetry collective - gramatologia Tom de Freston - Poetry-comic the Charnel House - painted Laurence & Myra Musgrove - My Song, poem/comic - from the Illustrated Professor A visual poetry anthology - Fantagraphic Books Essay on Joe Brainard and Grids - Daniel Worden on nonsite.org
 * Comics and Poetry**

Mark Waid's [|Thrillbent] - digital comics Interview with [|Mark Waid on Thrillbent] initiative - in Publishers Weekly Interview with [|Mark Waid and more on digital] comics - in NYTimes Yen Yen Woo & Colin Goh's [|Dimsumwarriors] - kung fu and language learning all rolled up into a tasty dim sum... Interactive comic on [|Chicago 2012 NATO protest] - from cartoon movement Infinite canvas comic by Boulet (in English) - pretty sweet Pretty neat Infinite manga on Shueisha Infinite Canvas comic "to be continued" by Ghetti & Trimarchi Anders Nilsen - Me & the Universe - at the NYTimes Anders Nilsen - 2015 On Optimism - in Medium Bouletcorp digital comic - Our Toyota was fantastic - animated gif comic Another Boutletcorp animated gif comic - Heavy Light - beautiful Gif-comic GIF-Novel - in conjunction with Jameson ad Boulet's 24 hour comic - 2014 Partially animated comic on memory by Lilli Carré in the NYTimes Paddy Johnston's lecture on Chris Ware's iPad comic - w/images and audio Joe Sacco - Great War digital annotations - Slate Interactive game/comic Icarus Needs - Kano games Leap motion interactive comic Breathing Room - by Erik Loyer Web comic - The Firelight Isle - by Paul Duffield & Kate Brown Game for making virtual and real popup books - for iPad Article by Frank Santoro on how scrolling is changing comics format - The Comics Journal
 * Digital Comics**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Comics in History** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Comics in Church] - images of Russia's St John the Baptist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Selection of [|Illuminated Manuscript Pages] - courtesy Lynda Barry's blog More illuminated manuscripts - Spanish <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comics-esque - Hildegard of Bingen - illuminated manuscripts

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jack [|Kirby Museum] website <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Robert Beerbohm's [|History of Comics] - blog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Mike's Amazing World of Comics] - Publishing history of many major publishers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Charles Hatfield's response to the PBS comics/superheroes documentary - blogpost New Yorker Article on [|Superheroes and costumes] by Michael Chabon, v. cool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|the superhero supply co] - an 826project - ridiculously cool, and a good cause <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Wally Wood's [|SuperDuperMan] - superman parody (obviously) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Alan Moore & Mike Collings's parody of Miller's Daredevil - 1983 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Article: [|why i read superhero comics] - by Mark D. White <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">On [|teaching and superheroes] - by Matt Finch <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Documentary film (trailer) [|Wonder Women] - the untold story of American superheroines <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with [|Steve Ditko on Spiderman] by Jonathan Ross <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Timeline of [|Superman at 75] - from newsarama <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Exhibition of [|appropriation of Roy Lichenstein] - whom appropriated from comics Ian Gordon on Superman and myth - academic article
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Superheroes **

Responses to the new Muslim Ms. Marvel - NPR Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman and Feminism - the New Yorker Tackling gender/culture issue - Qahera Egyptian female superhero - webcomic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On the [|Rise of Gay Superheroes] - by Jeet Heer <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Overly-sexualized [|representations of women] in superhero comics (brokeback/tumblr) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on when overly-sexualization kills the story - from Comics Alliance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The original women in refrigerators site - by Gail Simone <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Depiction of women - particularly Starfire in DC Comics - from short packed! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On the costumes of super heroines - from io9 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Improving depiction of female superheroes? - from Comic Book Resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Comic meta-commenting on PowerGirl's costume - by Doerge and Berg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On women and comics - [|ladydrawers] - site Article on Pretty in Ink - female cartoonists in the history of comics - from Hyperallergic 23 Female cartoonists on drawing their bodies (nude) in comics - from Buzzfeed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">New [|superheroine focused comic to counter gender stereotypes] - from the Guardian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Walt Hickey - analysis of gender skewing in mainstream comics - from 538 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Project of Female Superheroes - for people in conflict areas <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Recommended Best LGBT Graphic Novels 2013 - from the Advocate <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Qiana Whitted asks 'what is an African-American comic' - in the Hooded Utilitarian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article on cartoonists who paint new picture of social justice - from Color Lines <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dominic Umile on civil rights graphic novel The Silence of Our Friends - in PopMatters <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Francesca Lyn's women write about comics - blog column, VCU doc student <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2014 Article on female readers of comics - by Noah Berlatsky in the Atlantic <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Romance comics - Sequential Crush blog - by Jacque Nodell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Gene Yang's speech on Diversity at the National Book Awards - in the Washington Post
 * Race, Gender in Comics**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Website for Mike Rohde - and his book on sketchnoting Sunni Brown's Doodle Manifesto - and more Sunni Brown sketchnotes - from flickr On the higher purpose of doodling - from CBS News On the importance of drawing all day - from Salon Post on Visual User-Generated visual notetaking - overview Mike Rohde on Visual Thinking - from a list apart Giulia Forsythe on Visual Notetaking - lots of references Learning about visual notetaking - more from Giulia Forsythe On Graphic facilitation - from Making Ideas Visible On visual notetaking in the classroom - from Ed Weekly On an array of visual resources for student work - by Derek Bruff Slides on visual thinking - resources by Derek Bruff Article on how visual thinking improves writing - Mindshift classroom Neil Anderson - blog on using word clouds & Visual thinking to help generate writing/ideas - writing as aesthetic work Visual Mind Mapping for students - from ConversationEd Lesson plan on visual narrative meets visual note taking - from comicsineducation.com Genis Carreras's Philographics - Visualizing philosophy Adobe says Drawing should be like writing - from Wired On the importance of doodling for focus & memory - from The Wall Street Journal Sketchnotes on the shift from text to visuals by Scott Torrance Nancy Margulies - On Visual Thinking: Symbolic Ways of Representing Ideas - Johns Hopkins School of Education On Drawing as a curriculum essential - the Guardian Moose Allain - How to Draw Anything - the Guardian Interview w Lynda Barry on drawing & Future of education - on Open Culture Ian Robson's Visualizing Practice - education/drawing blog
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sketchnoting **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- visual-verbal notetaking, related to comics

Ken Robinson's Changing Education Paradigms whiteboard animation - RSA Animate Tricia Kelleher's talk on education animated - Stephen Perse Learning Foundation Christopher Niemann's World Cup Curse interactive animated story - in NYTimes
 * Education Animations**