Category: comics

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+ comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, graphic travelogue, Guantánamo Voices, islamophobia, Muslim, omar el akkad, sarah mirk

The Stoking of Fear

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Every so often I’ll abruptly awake, out of dead sleep, because something startled me. Typically it’s a sound, in the dead of night, with the dim light of night streaming into the room, casting shadows all around. I’ll bolt up, heart racing, fearing to move lest whatever woke me pounces as I stumble around blindly in the dark. I think about someone breaking into … Read More The Stoking of Fear

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+ comics, image comics, Pedagogy, scott mccloud, southern bastards

The Importance of Layouts in Comics

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Whenever I read comics, I always pay attention, of course, to the juxtaposition between the text and images and the ways that they work in tandem to convey meaning. I pay attention to the gutters and the spaces that my mind fills in, either spatially or temporally. Each of these aspects is important, but for me, lately, paying attention to the page layout is … Read More The Importance of Layouts in Comics

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+ american historical association, college, comics, graphic memoir, healthcare, mat johnson, mayim bialik, shane patrick doyle, ted closson

The Costs of Graduate School and Healthcare

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On January 20, Mat Johnson posted on Twitter about his insulin falling out of the refrigerator and his kid picking it up and placing it in the freezer, thus ruining it. Insurance would not replace the insulin, which costs $800, and Johnson pointed out that luckily he has enough to cover it. However, if he could not cover it, he may actually die, as … Read More The Costs of Graduate School and Healthcare

+ Ayize Jama Everett, box of bones, comics, Frances Olivia Liddell-Rodriguez, John Jennings, memory

The Memory Beneath Our Feet

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A couple of weeks ago I received my copy of Box of Bones, a project created by Ayize Jama Everett and John Jennings. Book one contains five stories, each written and illustrated by different artists. The overarching connective tissue within Box of Bones is Lindsay Ford, a PhD student in Folklore/African American Studies at UC Berkeley. Ford’s work centers on the Box of Bones, … Read More The Memory Beneath Our Feet

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+ american literature, comics, graphic novels, Literature, Pedagogy, syllabus

Multicultural American Literature and Pedagogy Syllabus

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Every semester, I post the syllabi for the course I am teaching. This semester, I am teaching “Multicultural American Literature,” a graduate level course for education majors. It is an online, asynchronous course, so my approach differs from the face to face classes or online synchronous courses I teach. Since students in this course are education majors, I wanted to focus on things that … Read More Multicultural American Literature and Pedagogy Syllabus

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