Comics & Representation

Comics is a form of media students may wish to explore as well. If students can draw, they may wish to examine comics as media representation. Here is a comic strip made with Pixton, but a friend with a disability said it's only okay, not great. Why might that be so? Also, use the project rubric to determine why this would or would not be appropriate for a project for this PBL.

Consider this web article about Disabilities in Marvel Comics: The Necessity of Normalization. Then, examine the links to examples of comics regarding people with disabilities.

Have you figured out yet why the comic strip above is not great? Here are some links to cartoon / comic creation sites. Examine whether each is appropriate as a tool and start with whether different people are represented. Do they have a range of characters with disabilities? Cartoons/comics can be created, read with a video recording, and presented to YouTube. This is only one example of many that are possible for this project. There is a realm of possibilities available.