Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Preparing for the English Student Summer Camp



A Message from Robin Murray about “Reading and Writing Comics and Graphic Novels, or ‘Comics are just words and images. You can do anything with words and images’ (Harvey Pekar)



Welcome Campers! To prepare to read and write comics and graphic novels, all you need to do is surf your favorite comic books or their television or film adaptations and bring along a list to share. We will have a selection of comics and graphic novels to read as models. But we’ll also explore the massive collection in EIU’s library, so you can find (or align with) your favorite genre(s).  By exploring a variety of comics and graphic novels, we hope to get a sense of the comic/graphic novel medium as multi-genre. 





After reading our selections, our goal will be writing our own comic book scripts, telling different kinds of stories and speaking to diverse kinds of audiences. Together we will also create teaser trailers for the camp Student Showcase. As Petropolis author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi explains, “It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium; you can say any kind of story in comics.” To get you started, here are a few links to comics you can read online, as well:


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