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+ bitch planet, comics, farmhand, graphic novels, image comics, Kelly Sue DeConnick, rob guillory, scott mccloud, understanding comics, Valentine De Landro

Having Students Analyze Comics’ Pages: Part I

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In my Literature and Composition Graphic Memoirs’ class, I am having students read various chapters from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. During the first week, they read “The Vocabulary of Comics” and “Blood in the Gutter.” At the end of the week, I brought in about 6-7 comics and graphic novels, gave them each specific pages, and had them use McCloud to … Read More Having Students Analyze Comics’ Pages: Part I

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+ alien, comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, jason jones, laura jones, lillian e smith, memory, my life in movies, ridley scott, Sigourney Weaver, the journey

Memory in Laura Jones’ “My Life in Movies”

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This semester, I am thoroughly enjoying teaching my Literature and Composition Graphic Memoirs class. There is so much to unpack, and we haven’t even gotten to the book-length memoirs yet. Recently, I had students read excerpts from Lillian Smith’s The Journey and a section of Laura Jones’ My Life in Movies. Today, I want to talk about the ways that these seemingly disparate texts, … Read More Memory in Laura Jones’ “My Life in Movies”

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+ Al Feldstein, comics, Comics Code Authority, eando binder, EC Comics, invisible man, joe orlando, judgement day, Qiana J. Whitted, ralph ellison, the teacher from mars

Positioning the Reader in “The Teacher from Mars” and “Judgement Day!”

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Last post, I wrote about the ways that Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” serves as a commentary on racism and Jim Crow during the mid-twentieth century. Today, I want to look at Otto Binder, Al Feldstein, and Joe Orlando’s adaptation of the story for EC Comics’ Weird Science-Fantasy #24 and at Feldstein and Orlando’s “Judgement Day!” Specifically, I want to focus on some … Read More Positioning the Reader in “The Teacher from Mars” and “Judgement Day!”

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+ comics, george takei, graphic memoir, graphic novels, harmony becker, idw publishing, justin eisinger, lillian e smith, paul ricoeur, stephen scott, the journey, they called us enemy

“Memory is a wily keeper of the past”: The Narrative of Memory

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Throughout our lives, we create memories, then we reconstruct those memories, and they appear again and again within our mind. For me, one memory that always pops up concerns a time when I was a kid, riding a four-wheeler at my grandfather’s camp. I sat down on the seat, my dad sitting behind me, and I pulled the throttle back with my right hand. … Read More “Memory is a wily keeper of the past”: The Narrative of Memory

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+ arkansas, comics, graphic novels, little rock, nate powell, race, southern literature, southern studies, two dead, van jensen, world war ii

The Official Record in Van Jensen and Nate Powell’s “Two Dead”

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The back matter of Van Jensen and Nate Powell’s new book, Two Dead, describes it as, “at once a white-knuckled and unputdownable thriller, a roman à clef inspired by true events, and a book about post-traumatic stress disorder and the underlying social traumas of how war and segregation affect their survivors on all fronts.” Today, I want to look at a brief section from … Read More The Official Record in Van Jensen and Nate Powell’s “Two Dead”

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