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Other comic books you could use in the classroom Claire McCarthy

By Scott McCloud
 Zot: the complete black and white collection (2008) Zachary T. Paleozogt lives in "the far-flung future of 1965," a utopian Earth of world peace, robot butlers, and flying cars. Jenny Weaver lives in an imperfect world of disappointment and broken promises—the Earth we live in. Stepping across the portals to each other's worlds, Zot and Jenny's lives will never be the same again.

This comic book is a combination of styles. He uses the best from Manga, alternative comics and superheroes into Zot. It's an innovative exploration of comics' potential that helped set the stage for his later theoretical works. The original publication (that was published more than 20 years ago). Yet, it has a great combination of styles that could be shown to children that we are not just using the standard forms that we see in our western society, that comics are a world-wide phenomena.

Destroy! (1986)



 

Making Comics (2006) If you’ve ever felt there must be something more to making comics than just copying drawing styles then this is the book for you. Topics include: In this book, it tells you about the types of techniques that a comic artist uses to make their comic book. Once again, we are using the metalanguage to be able to come up with a piece of literacy that has a certain flow and sequence to it.
 * Choosing the right moments—what to include, what to leave out.
 * Framing actions and guiding attention.
 * Choosing words and images that communicate together.
 * Creating varied and compelling characters with inner lives and unforgettable appearances.
 * Understanding body language and facial expressions.
 * Creating rich, believable worlds for your readers to explore.
 * Picking the tools that are right for you.
 * Navigating the world of styles and genres.



Reinventing Comics (2000) The controversial follow-up to Understanding Comics advocates 12 different revolutions in the way comics are created, distributed and perceived with special emphasis on the potential of Online Comics. Part One examines comics as an art form and as literature, creator's rights, the changing business of comics, public perception, and gender and ethnic diversity. Part Two explores comics and new technology, including digital production, digital distribution, and the design challenges of comics in a digital environment.

As we have seen from our group, comics have a lot of potential both in the present and even more so in the future, and this book explores where the future of this form of literacy may take us and how the digital age that we have come into may help or aid this process.

By other authors Maus by Art Spiegelman A holocaust story about a Jewish survivor and his son, who is a cartoonist, coming to terms with his father's stories of the holocaust and the struggles that his people had to go through to get to the other side. it studies the bllody pawprints that were left by the Germans and their treatment of these people due to their religious beliefs.

Bone series by Jeff Smith This critically acclaimed comic that is loved by children. It is a story about the 3 bone cousins getting lost and into all sorts of crazy adventures. It has the usual comic set up of dark forces that are trying to stop the heroes of the story but can they overcome these obstacles? This story has fun and basic drawn characters that are easy for the children to be able to follow their adventures.

Age of Bronze: a thougsand ships by Eric Shanower A comic about the ttragedy of the Trojan war. The ttention to this historic tale and appears to the supernatural tendencies that are prevelant in a lot of the ancient myths of the Gods. Yet, unlike most of those sotries, this one also favours the humanistic element of those mere mortals that also featured in this tale. The creation of the characters has a great attention to detail so much that it has been described to be 'a great example of how graphic format can actually be an inspiration to the written word.'