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Saving the Day, One Nerd at a Time
Hi, folks! Thanks for bearing with us through our conclusions, and sticking around to hear our reviews pertaining to the literary quality of some great graphic novels. To round off our more serious discussion of what we would call the … Continue reading
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The WWWWWH of Graphic Novels
After a few months of additional exploratory graphic novel reading, I’m finding myself more compelled than ever to make a case for this genre in the classroom, and to back up my initial desire to expand my knowledge about this … Continue reading
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Stitches: A Memoir
Overview: In his New York Times # 1 Bestseller graphic memoir, David Small recounts his childhood and adolescence in Midwestern USA during the 1950s, relaying the simultaneous whimsy and trepidation inherently embedded in the universal process of growing up. Suffering … Continue reading
A.D.: New Orleans After the Flood
Overview: In his web comic turned graphic novel, A.D.: New Orleans After the Flood, Josh Neufeld follows the stories of five real-life Katrina survivors along with their friends and family, chronicling the experiences of these disaster-braving people before, during, and after … Continue reading
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Tagged A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans
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Feature: Graphic Novels in High School Libraries
In researching other online platforms advocating for the usage of graphic novels in the classroom as a contemporary, relevant genre of literature, I stumbled across this great roundtable discussion, facilitated by Josh Hogan on Graphic Novel Reporter, with three high … Continue reading
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Why Spiderman is Poetic
Confession: before my partners in crime here at the Graphic Novel Hovel pointed out to me the merits of comic books and their influence on my beloved graphic novels, I had never picked one up myself, had never become acquainted … Continue reading
“It’s MY comic book”
If you’ve been anywhere near a high school English class, you’re all too familiar with the classic archetypes of literature: trickster, sage, devil, hero (hello, comic book characters), but I bet you never read about this one in school: the … Continue reading