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• James Bucky Carter author of Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel blogs at http://ensaneworld.blogspot.com/
• Peter Gutierrez blogs on comics and other media at Connect the Pop for School Library Journal
• Jay Hosler, is a biology professor and author/artist whose books on Evolution (The Sandwalk Adventures and Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth) also shares his work-in- progress at his blog http://www.jayhosler.com/jshblog/
• Matt Madden is an author, artist and teacher whose books include 99 Ways to Tell A Story: Exercises in Style and Drawing Words & Writing Pictures (with Jessica Abel). He also blogs at http://mattmadden.blogspot.com
• Katie Monnin author of Teaching Graphic Novels blogs at http://teachinggraphicnovels.blogspot.com
• Jim Ottaviani is a librarian and author of many science themed graphic novels through his Ann Arbor based imprint GT Labs. Heck, Jim is so cool he has a wiki page.
• Hyeondo Park is a manga artist whose work can be found at http://www.hanaroda.net. His illustrations include Wiley adaptations of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar & Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Nick Sousanis is a comic artist whose fascinating philosophical comics about education are collected at http://www.spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/
• Award-winning artist, illustrator and teacher Gene Yang is the author of many graphic novels including American Born Chinese, The Eternal Smile & Prime Baby. His personal website is http://humblecomics.com. You can also read about his webcomics for Algebra Students here.
• Maureen Bakis has a book about teaching graphic novels coming soon through Corwin and blogs/shares resources at her Ning www.graphicnovelsandhighschoolenglish.com
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Comment by Ryan Goble on December 23, 2009 at 4:15pm
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Marek & Lindsay
1. Great additions.
2. Yeah, Lindsay - Marek is on point - in the future if you have a question feel free to post them up in the discussion forum so that
a. it is archived and not lost in the comment wall
b. it keeps the discussion between folks who want to hang with it...
In the meantime, it was still cool to fill up the comment wall :)
Happy holidays!
Ry:)
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Comment by Marek Bennett on December 23, 2009 at 10:50am
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Re: names, it's Interesting how two Jewish fellas were so careful to create an extremely Anglo mythos... Why wasn't Superman's girlfriend called, I don't know, Gabriella Goldstein?
Two links for your mythos project, LL, in case I didn't already send these to ye:
-- Diane Rehm's show about Moses ("America's Prophet") = http://wamu.org/programs/dr/09/12/22.php#29258 ... A caller does call in to ask about connections between Moses & Superman (orphaned by genocide, Hebrew-Krypton connections, use powers to help adopted people, &c.)
-- "Superman Is A Dick" = Just a great belly-laughin' collection of actual covers & panels that totally undermine Superman's reputation as a straight-laced morally unambiguous good-guy.
When, oh when, will we move this discussion into the DISCUSSION FORUM?!
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Comment by Lindsay Lombardi on December 23, 2009 at 9:18am
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Thank you Caitlin that definitely makes sense.
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Comment by Caitlin Plovnick on December 18, 2009 at 2:31pm
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This is not very scholarly, but it could refer to your initials? Major ladies in Superman's life are Lois Lane and Lana Lang. As somebody with L.L. initials, you too (Lindsay Lombardi) could be a girlfriend of Superman. That might be what they meant anyway.
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I'd go with some of these definitions to answer that question ..
• A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythos
• (1) Approaching the world through poetic narrative and traditional ritual rather than rational or logical thought. ...
web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_M.html
So idea of Superman is a part of our cultural mythology and a reflection of our ideology as Americans over time - Peter Gutierrez does a nice presentation about how Batman changes over time to reflect different ethos (like mythos) over time as a media lit activity - maybe he has some ideas also
Maybe some of the comic scholars can weigh in?
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OK so can someone explain to me what it means when someone says "Supermans' Mythos"....I was told my name could be part of the superman mythos/
Not sure what that means, never heard about this before.
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Lindsay, my pleasure!
Ryan:)
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Amazing thanks Ryan!!
The books are already on order!
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Also - these two books would be worth your time to check out...
Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross (Hardcover)
Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Studies in Popular Culture) by Ri...
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Hey Lindsay!
Thanks for posting. In the future, feel free to post questions like that in the discussion forum above as it is nicely archived and allows us to follow one discussion thread (instead of this crazy comment wall). In the meantime, here are some discussion forums you might check out:
ARTICLE: Supergirls Gone Wild: Gender Bias In Comics Shortchanges S...
Sexuality in comics
ARTICLE: Comics Make for Colorful Learning
You can browse the whole archive by clicking "View All" above or clicking here.
It is also worth noting you have many comics pros here at MC POP who might be worth reaching out to on the Ning.
Katie Monnin just published Teaching Graphic Novels (http://maupinhouse.com/index.php/authors/katie-monnin/teaching-grap...) on Maupin House press! Katie's full biography is here (http://maupinhouse.com/index.php/authors/katie-monnin.html) and you can contact and friend her via the Ning here (http://mcpopmb.ning.com/profile/katiemonnin?xg_source=profiles_memb...).
And James Bucky Carter wrote Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Pa...
Also John C. Weaver has done some work around your topic and wrote about Watchmen in the classroom - see Teaching Watchmen at the High School Level and in my response at the bottom of his post you'll see a link to his article.
Lastly, this wiki (I abandoned this wiki when I started MC POP) is LOADED with comics resources - check out each thread: http://popresources.pbworks.com/Comics
Those are the tip of the expert iceberg here but you might drop those folks notes via the Ning as they are loaded with resources and ideas!
Hope this helps!
Ryan:)
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