Graphic Novel
Final Project Explanation and Rubric - Spring 2019
Course Description, Policies, and Procedures
Mr. Svab's Cartoon Collections
Graphic Narrative Explication Instructions - Spring 2019
Scene From A Book/Poem/Song explanation & grading rubric.
Storyboard That logging on instructions.
Blankets
Review of Blankets from Time magazine.
American Born Chinese & Ghost World
"Transformed into White Gods" - Gawker.com essay about Korean American identity
New York Times article about Asian and White community tensions in a high-achieving school district in NJ.
"How To Live Without Irony" - New York Times essay about hipsters.
Suggested Reading
Art Spiegelman: In The Shadow of No Towers
Relatively Indolent but Relentless: A Cancer Treatment Journal - Matt Freedman
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
Garry Trudeau:
The Long Road Home
The War Within
Will Eisner: A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (1978)
Webcomics (possible adult language)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Other random cool things
--A Bill Watterson (of Calvin & Hobbes fame) speech on life advice, drawn as a C&H-esque cartoon by Gavin Aung Than
--Webcomic from Foreign Policy magazine about Syrian refugees trying to get into Europe. Read the full article HERE.
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