Definitions

• Comic Book

• Graphics Journalism

• Graphic Medicine

• Graphic Novels

• Manga

• Sequential Art
   

About Comics

• Advice on Comic Writing and Dyslexia

• American Vernacular: Chicago and the Birth of the Comic

• Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism

• Beyond Super Heroes and Talking Animals: Social Justice in Graphic Novels in Education

• The books that led her to art

• An Intro to CBML (Comic Book Markup Language)

• Comics criticism: Basic questions to ask when reading a comic — version for students

• Comics That Stare Into the Face of Terror and Loneliness

• History of the modern comic book

• How to Study Comics and Graphic Novel

• How comics work

• How Females Are Represented in Comics and Graphic Novels

• The indigenous artists making their own comics industry

• Making A Living Being Creative

• Refugees and Migration: Seeking Refuge - The Journey

• Story Hour in the Library: Gene Yang

• A Stunning Graphic Novel Uncovers The History Of Enslaved Women Who Fought Back

• Will Eisner and the "Graphic Novel"

• Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family's life under the Khmer Rouge

• 25 of the Best Comics About Social Justice for Every Reader
   

Books, graphic novels and comics

• About the scientific method, a printable graphic novel by Kate Tibbetts

• Action Comics #1 (Superman)  

• Aztec Empire History is stranger than fiction

• Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

• Best comics and graphic novels of 2020

• Existential Comics

• The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, Rudolphe Töpffer, Switzerland, 1827. Earliest example of modern comic book

• The Four Immigrants Manga written by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama in 1931

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• Graphic Journalism

  • A 24-foot Panorama of the Most Infamous Day of World War I

  • Cartoons: Pictures with Power

  • Joe Sacco’s ‘The Great War’ becomes a Paris subway mural

  • Everyone's a Critic: Being a Journalist in an Online Age | Comic-Con@Home

• Graphic Medicine

  • COVID-19 Comics

  • Graphic Medicine Lib Guides

  • MK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving.

  • National Library of Medicine

• Maus by Art Spiegelman

• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

• Pre-reading Maus - The Elements of a Graphic Novel

• Qahera webcomic (produced by Deena Mohamed about a hijab-clad superheroine addressing issues such as sexual harassment, misogyny, Islamophobia, and Islamist cultural attitudes)

• The Manga Guide To Statistics By Shin Takahashi (downloadable PDF)

• Understanding Comics: the invisible art  by Scott McCloud (Excellent resource about the formal elements of comics )    

• Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

Storyboards

• The Benefits of Storyboarding Your Next Film

• Build Your Storyboard

• Storyboards for Science

• Two methods of storyboarding (YouTube)

• The Far Side storytelling by Gary Larsen (YouTube)

• Why Your Digital Marketing Strategy Needs a Storyboard

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Tools

• Best comic creator software 2021: Create comics and manga

• Comic Creator (PC)  

• Comic Life (Great)

• Comic Life in the classroom (Great)

• Comic Master (Free)

• Make beliefs Comix

• Pixton Comic & Storyboard Builder for Education (Great)

• Write Comics

• Witty Comics  (Great)

• 7 Sites to Create Your Own Comics Online

• 20 Digital tools for making comics

 

Professional Organizations

• The International Comic Arts Forum

• The Comics Journal

• Comics Scholars Listserv

• The Comics Forum

• Spin Weave and Cut

Related Information

• Cave of Forgotten Dreams

• Cave of Forgotten Dreams- the paintings (YouTube)

• Finally, the Beauty of France’s Chauvet Cave Makes its Grand Public Debut

• Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia)

• Joseph Campbell Foundation