COMICS: Kafka Metamorphosis + Comics - etc.
Hey everyone, I culled this post from the lively series of wall posts in the Graphic Novels & Comics Group.
Wall to Wall comments are fun but they tend to get lost/buried. That is the reason we try to move resource discussions into the discussion forum - that way all our collective great ideas are easy to find for future MC POPPERS!
MC Popper Margery Willis started talking about the use of Peter Kuper's graphic novel Metamorphosis to teach Kafka.
I can't embed the video, but if you go to the official site for the book at Random House you can watch a sweet preview / trailer and check some sample pages.
From there, Comics International stud Marek Bennett went on to mention R. Sikoryak's Masterpiece Comics adaptation of The Metamorphosis (into the comic strip world of "Peanuts")?
Then Louann Reid reminded everyone of R. Crumb & David Zane Mairowitz's landmark biography Kafka
I wanted to add this wonderful Art Spiegelman (be advised, Art does use the other f-bomb in the comic) comic published in the New Yorker September 18, 2006 pg. 51 that makes a cool allusion to The Metamorphosis
I think this comic is included in Spiegelman's book Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Lastly, the wall discussion talked about how students were making their own Kafka comics. As a reminder, if you have kids that are not great at drawing you can always use www.mycomicbookcreator.com, www.comiclife.com, www.bitstrips.com, or http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ to help students create high quality comics!
If anyone has any editorial thoughts or other Kafka resources or student work to share (graphic novel or otherwise) please post thoughts/ideas below!
Also, Margery, please make a separate discussion post when you share your student comics, folks would love to see a gallery of their work!
Wall to Wall comments are fun but they tend to get lost/buried. That is the reason we try to move resource discussions into the discussion forum - that way all our collective great ideas are easy to find for future MC POPPERS!
MC Popper Margery Willis started talking about the use of Peter Kuper's graphic novel Metamorphosis to teach Kafka.
I can't embed the video, but if you go to the official site for the book at Random House you can watch a sweet preview / trailer and check some sample pages.
From there, Comics International stud Marek Bennett went on to mention R. Sikoryak's Masterpiece Comics adaptation of The Metamorphosis (into the comic strip world of "Peanuts")?
Then Louann Reid reminded everyone of R. Crumb & David Zane Mairowitz's landmark biography Kafka
I wanted to add this wonderful Art Spiegelman (be advised, Art does use the other f-bomb in the comic) comic published in the New Yorker September 18, 2006 pg. 51 that makes a cool allusion to The Metamorphosis
I think this comic is included in Spiegelman's book Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Lastly, the wall discussion talked about how students were making their own Kafka comics. As a reminder, if you have kids that are not great at drawing you can always use www.mycomicbookcreator.com, www.comiclife.com, www.bitstrips.com, or http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ to help students create high quality comics!
If anyone has any editorial thoughts or other Kafka resources or student work to share (graphic novel or otherwise) please post thoughts/ideas below!
Also, Margery, please make a separate discussion post when you share your student comics, folks would love to see a gallery of their work!
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This is all wonderful stuff! I am planning for my reading class, which is a beginner English Language Learner class. We want to emphasize the theme of transformation in light of their immigration experiences and transition from adolescence to teen/young adult. Anyone have suggestions for comics featuring literal or metaphoric transformations? I am sure there are a lot of rich examples out there in popular culture.
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