STUDY COMICS: Graphic novel journalism explains the news better (Street)
Comments(3) Look at this list of award-winning graphic novels. Especially if you want to understand another item in the news, like Kosovo peeling itself away from Serbia (graphic journalist Joe Sacco‘s Balkan War novels shed ink and insight on the region. To understand what’s popping off in Palestine, check out Sacco’s book of the not-quite-a-recognized-country‘s same name.) And how else would a layman understand the 9/11 Commission’s report? –Kell Dailey
[Here at BGSU, freshman students are required to take two composition courses, Eng 111: Introduction to Composition and then Eng 112: Varieties of Writing. I am currently teaching Eng 112 and students gain exposure to reading academic articles while learning to argue in writing, but they often complain that articles are not entertaining enough. I wonder if students might be more interested in composition and English as a subject if a textbook presented material in graphic novel format like Scott McCloud‘s Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics. BK]
category: Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Really? That’s cool. Is that because graphic novels are one step closer to film or television news than print journalism is?
That would be a neat conference paper…