Graphic Novels & Comics

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For people interested in discussing comics in the classroom!

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Latest Activity: Dec 28, 2019

Comics Creation Software Comic Life • Kerpoof • Comicssketch • Comics Lab/ Extreme • PikiStrips • Toondoo • Bubblr • Comiqs • My Comic Book Creator • BitStrips • ReadWriteThink's Comic Creator • Make Beliefs Comix • Myths & Legends Story Creator • Cartoonist • Pixton• Chogger•

• 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 25, 2010 at 5:22pm: Great news Marcy! Happy Holidays! RRG:)

Comment by Susan Stephenson, the Book Chook on December 24, 2010 at 1:55pm: That's wonderful news, Marcy!

Comment by Marcy Prager on December 24, 2010 at 9:00am: Thanks to everybody for the information about Graphic Novels for young readers. The P.T.O. gave me almost $300.00 to replenish my classroom library with graphic novels. EVERY child is so anxious to read!!!!!!

I even ordered multiple copies of a graphic "book" that teaches the kinds of graphs that can be read and made by students. Every child had a "part" to read. Now students are prepared to make their own graphs by the way graphing was presented in all of the bubbles.

Students are now electing to write non-fiction in cartoon form using bubbles as one form of formative assessment.

My second graders are now reading 45 minutes without looking up or being distracted. They are sharing their books. Thank you, all the writers, for making reading "pop" for kids!

Comment by Tony O'seland on December 13, 2010 at 6:53pm: Ah...I think I understand now. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Comment by Ryan Goble on December 13, 2010 at 12:42pm: LOL - well Tuesday we do crowdsource ?s - see this - and info on the general tech term = here

Comment by Tony O'seland on December 13, 2010 at 10:23am: Crowdsource? What is this mysterious Crowdsource you speak of? I turned my back for a year or so and all this new nomenclature and technology snuck up behind me and I didn't notice.

Comment by Ryan Goble on December 11, 2010 at 10:28am: Tony, that might be a crowdsource ? You could have them download trial versions of Comic Life? (See the software list above).

Comment by Tony O'seland on December 11, 2010 at 10:19am: Does anyone know what happened to Plantwide Software's Comic Book Creator program? They seem to have just vanished off the map. I was wanting to list this as one of the resources for my class I'll be teaching this summer but its no where to be found. I don't want to use the online comic creator websites because we don't have student computer access in all our classrooms. Suggestions and comments?

Comment by Ryan Goble on November 25, 2010 at 10:53am: Tony - here at least - lesson plans and any resources are great to share above in the discussion forum!

All resources that help w/ teaching and learning = good resources.