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Common Core + Comics: Election Edition!

Here’s a look at how the COMMON CORE Anchor Standards factor into a recent comics feature:

A powerful quote from Jonathan Shay’s ACHILLES IN VIETNAM:

Here’s a hopeful card for you from COMICS WORKSHOP…

I take this passage in Escher’s essay to be particularly appropriate for comics creators:

It looks like we’ve learned our lesson from the last time we played on a three-dimensional staircase …

Drawn from a quote in the introduction to D. Soyini Madison’s “Critical Ethnography”…

“to approach eternity by means of sounds”…?

So you’ve drawn your 8-page comic (including covers & inside pages)… Now let’s PUBLISH it!

Three-point perspective staircase distortion, drawn at Currier Art Museum …

Mini-comic drawn to accompany a CCS Applied Cartooning seminar on teaching comics:

Journal comic inspired by a recent visit to the Currier Museum’s mind-bending exposition…

Drawn at a workshop at Plymouth State University’s Karl Drerup Gallery.