Explore curriculum & build meaning with these creative COMICS PROJECTS …
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Multiple Intelligences & Comics Education
My mission statement, drawn for an anthology by New England Comics Arts in the Classroom.
CIVICS
NH State COMICstitution
Adapting the state constitution’s text into stick-figure visuals…
- What are rights?
- How do we enact them (in actions & symbols)?
- How do various rights & interests fit together in society?
“Civic Ignorance”: David Souter on Civics Education
Adapting a 2012 talk given by the former Supreme Court Justice.
HISTORY
The Freeman Colby Series
Graphic novels drawn directly from primary sources — the journals, letters, & even artwork of eyewitnesses to history!
VIDEOS: “How to Draw Freeman Colby”
Up-close demos of stick-figure cartooning techniques, coloring, page layout, & more…
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont
Stories from the life and family lore of master storyteller Daisy Turner!
Published Summer 2021 by Vermont Folklife Center.
WORKING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES:
ARTICLE: Freeman Colby: From Primary Sources to Comics
Featuring multiple Civil War source texts & images from my research…
Hospital Cat 1: Finding F.A.S.T. in Primary Source Texts
Simple visual tools & markups to help your historical comics come to life on the page!
ACTIVITY: Comics Timeline
Classroom project outline for creating a visual timeline of a historical era.
UNIT: Civil War Comics Camp
Overview of an integrated middle school program, researching + transcribing + drawing from the prison diary of a Union veteran.
LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
POETRY COMICS: Drawing out verses & lines in panels & pages…
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Woody Guthrie’s “Tom Joad”
= Drawing out Guthrie’s musical adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel!
“El viaje más caro / The Most Costly Journey”
Life stories told by undocumented migrant farmworkers & drawn by cartoonists…
MATH
Mathematicomics = My random sporadic math cartoon feature, addressing various topics in math & art & logic…
1 Monster Invites Another
How one monster grows into a quarter-thousand (& counting)…!
Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity”: There Must Be Stars
I take this passage in Escher’s essay to be particularly appropriate for comics creators:
Museum Courtyard: Above & Below
It looks like we’ve learned our lesson from the last time we played on a three-dimensional staircase …
Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity” Part 2: Music & Eternity
“to approach eternity by means of sounds”…?
Watch Your Step
Three-point perspective staircase distortion, drawn at Currier Art Museum …
Escher Exhibit
Journal comic inspired by a recent visit to the Currier Museum’s mind-bending exposition…
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“One Monster Invites Another…”
SCIENCE
= Based on text by Michael Caduto!
Drawing sequence & detail from a source text.
The Weeks Act Story (Comic)
The origin story of the National Forests! Includes source links to the image gallery I used in my research…
John Weeks, 1911 (Music Video)
It turns out there’s poetry hidden in the congressional record! Lyrics by John Weeks, music by Big Paws.
More SCIENCE+COMICS Projects:
LoonToons
Learn about the amazing lives of loons — by cartooning them!
www.MarekBennett.com 