Texts

Recommended texts and texts about comics, and comics in education - this comes from my class list and a recent paper proposal, i'll be adding to it and reorganizing it as this site grows... Feel free to send me recommended readings to add to the list. - Nick

Madden, M. & Abel, J. //Drawing words and writing pictures.// McCloud, S. (1993). //Understanding comics.// Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, Inc. Monnin //Teaching graphic novels// Carter //Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels.//

Ayers, W., & Alexander-Tanner, R. (2010). //To teach: The journey in comics.// New York: Teachers College Press. Bakis, Maureen. The graphic novel classroom. Barry, L. (2010). //Picture this: The near-sighted monkey book.// Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly. Bitz, M. //When commas meet kryptonite//. Carter, J.B. //Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels.// the Comic Book Project: [] Drooker, E. //Flood//. Eisner, W. //Comics and sequential art.// Eisner, W. //Dropsie avenue: The neighborhood.// Fleming, A.M. //The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam//. Gaiman, N. //The Sandman.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Groensteen, T. (2007). //The system of comics.// (B. Beaty & N. Nguyen, Trans.). Jackson, MS: University <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Press of Mississippi. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Guibert/Lefevre. //The photographer.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kuper, P. //The system.// <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Madden, M. & Abel, J. //Drawing words and writing pictures.// [|Drawing Words Writing Pictures] [|SITE] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Making Curriculum Pop educational resource network: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">On teaching graphic novels: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mazzucchelli, D. //Asterios Polyp.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mazzucchelli, D., & Karasik. //Paul Auster’s City of glass//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">McCloud, S. (1993). //Understanding comics.// Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, Inc. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">McCloud, S. (2006). //Making comics.// New York: Harper. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">McKean, D. //Cages//. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Monnin, K. //[|Teaching graphic novels]// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Moore, A., & Gibbons, D. (1987). //Watchmen.// New York: DC Comics Inc. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Moore, A., & Lloyd, D. //V for vendetta//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Neufeld, J. (2009). //A.D. New Orleans after the deluge.// New York: Pantheon Books. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ottaviani, J., etc. //Fallout//, and other titles <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ottaviani, Cannon/Cannon. //T-minus: The race to the moon.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Pekar, H. & Haspiel, D. //The quitter//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Pekar, H., & various. //American splendor.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sacco, J. //Palestine//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Satrapi, M. //Persepolis.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Small, D. //Stitches.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Spiegelman, A. (1997). //Maus: A survivor’s tale.// New York: Pantheon Books. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Talbot, B. //Alice in Sunderland.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tan, S. //The arrival//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Thompson, C. //Blankets//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ware, Chris. (2000). //Jimmy Corrigan: The smartest kid on earth.// New York: Pantheon Books. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Comic Book Literacy Film: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Carter, B. (2007). Transforming English with Graphic Novels: Moving toward Our "Optimus Prime" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Ujiie, J., and Krashen, S.D. (1996). Comic Book Reading, Reading Enjoyment, and Pleasure Reading Among. Understanding Rhetoric: A graphic guide to writing by Liz Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon Review of [|Multicultural Comics] by Orion Kidder [|Watchmen as Literature] by Sarah J. Van Ness [|V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche] by James R. Keller //[|Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore] Edited by Comer and Sommers// Trevor R. Gertz, illustrated by Liz Clarke Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History, (Oxford, 2011) 'Portraying 9/11. Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Films, and Theatre' McFarland Press. Health Care Reform [|explained in Graphic Novel Form] - by Jonathan Gruber Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: [|Heroes and Superheroes] - by Bart Beatty & Stephen Weiner The Daniel Clowes Reader edited by Ken Parille - pdf book overview Barbara Postema // Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments //, explains how comics create meaning for readers by cleverly combining still images with text. Interview w/Rob Weiner & Carrye Kay Syma on their book Graphic Novels in the Classroom - from SciFi Pulse Review of Hillary Chute's "Outside the Box": Interviews with Contemporary cartoonists - by Seamus O'Malley Heroines of comic books & literature: portrayals in popular culture by Bajac-Carter, Jones, & Batchelor.
 * Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle** //by Frederick Luis Aldama.//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">COMICS: A Global History, 1968 to the Present **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner (2014)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**More recommended (by others) on comics** Graphic novel guides for libraries: Cornog, Martha and Timothy Perper (ed.): Graphic Novels Beyond the Basics. Insights and Issues for Libraries. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. Matz, Chris: "Collecting comic books for an academic library." In: Collection Building 23 (2004), pp 96-99. ( [] ) Pawuk, Michael: Graphic Novels: A Genre Guide to Comic Books, Manga, and More. (Genreflecting Advisory Series.) Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. The Reader's Advisory Guide to Graphic Novels, Francisca Goldsmith Comic Book Collections for Librarians, by Brian and Jody Fagan The Librarians' Guide to Graphic Novels for Children and Tweens, by David Serchay (there's also one for Adults by this author) Robert G. Weiner's (2010) Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc 500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate guide, Gene Kannenberg Jr. Graphic novels now: building, managing, and marketing a dynamic collection, Francisca Goldsmith The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, Danny Fingeroth Stephen Weiner //The 101 Best Graphic Novels// Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives ed. by Stein, Denson, & Meyer From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative*, edited by Jan-Noël Thon and Daniel Stein: @http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181989 // The Superhero Reader //, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield, UP of Mississippi. [|http://www.superheroreader.org]

**References**

Abel, J., & Madden, M. (2008). //Drawing words and writing pictures.// New York: First Second. Arnheim, R. (1997, 1969). //Visual thinking.// Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Bitz, M. (2010). //When commas meet kryptonite: Classroom lessons from the comic book project.// New York: Teachers College Press. Bosman, J. (October 8, 2010). Picture books no longer a staple for children. //The New York Times// (online). Retrieved from [] Calvino, I. (1993). //Six memos for the next millennium//. New York: Vintage International. Carter, J.B. (Ed.). (2007). //Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels.// Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Chute, H. (2009). History and graphic representation in //Maus//. In J. Heer & K. Worcester (Eds.), //A comics studies reader// (340-362). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. Dewey, J. (2005, 1934). //Art as experience.// New York: Perigree. Ghiselin, B. (1952). //The creative process.// New York: Mentor. Harvey, R.C. (1979). The aesthetics of the comic strip. //The Journal of Popular Culture, XII//, 640-652. Hoffman, D. (1998). //Visual intelligence: How we create what we see//. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Ogborn, J., & Tsatsarelis, C. (2001). //Multimodal teaching and learning: The// //rhetorics of the science classroom.// London & New York: Continuum. Langer, S.K. (1957). //Philosophy in a new key: A study in the symbolism of reason, rite, and art (3rd// //ed.).// Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Lewis, D. (2001). //Reading contemporary picturebooks: Picturing text.// London and New York: RoutledgeFalmer. McCloud, S. (1993). //Understanding comics.// Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, Inc. Monnin, K. (2010). //Teaching graphic novels.// Gainesville, FL: Maupin House Publishing, Inc. Moore, A., & Gibbons, D. (1987). //Watchmen.// New York: DC Comics Inc. Root-Bernstein, R.S. (1985). Visual thinking: The art of imagining reality. //Transactions of the American// //Philosophical Society, New Series, 75(6)//, 50-67. Sundstrom, L. (April 13, 2011). A scroll to the editor: We love to read! //The New York Times// (online). Retrieved from [] Vygotsky, L. (1986). //Thought and language.// (A. Kozulin, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.