UNL Digital Collections | Browse - 3 views
Morning International Comic Competition M.I.C.C. - 2 views
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Interesting: changing the name from "manga" to "comics" to reflect the desired scope of submissions. "While this is the fourth time that this competition has been held, it is the first since its name was changed from the Morning International Manga Competition (M.I.M.C.) to the Morning International Comic Competition (M.I.C.C.). Throughout the previous three competitions, we found ourselves keenly noticing something. While in Japan the word "manga" (マンガ) encompasses many broad genres and is still home to innovation and freshness, the term "manga" abroad refers to works of fantasy that are drawn in a specific style, and further confined to a small genre. This time, we saw an immediate change resulting from the contest's revised name, as we received many submissions that could be classified as "seinen manga," the genre that our magazine Morning primarily publishes. Not only that, we also received many highly exciting works with stories and visual designs that we could not imagine ever seeing from creators within the Japanese industry. We value this quality, as seen by the prize-winning works."
New England Webcomics Weekend - 1 views
CFP: "Teaching Graphic Narrative in the Literature Classroom" (M/MLA 4-7 November 2010,... - 1 views
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Increasingly comic books and graphic narratives/novels find their way onto literature syllabi. Recent anthologies such as _Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills_, edited by Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, and _Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel,_ edited by James Bucky Carter, emphasize the use for such texts in secondary schools. But what are the benefits of teaching comic books and graphic narratives/novels in college? And how do we best go about doing it? This panel seeks papers that discuss the benefits of teaching these new genres in the Literature classroom. Papers may address pedagogical issues and concerns as well as sample lesson plans and/or anecdotes from experience.
Closure - The Game - 1 views
Recordings of the 1970 San Diego Comic-Con #1: Listen to them Here! - Comic-Convention ... - 1 views
Hayao Miyazaki article "Dreams Grown Red and Black" - 1 views
The Grimace Project - 1 views
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This is an amazing website! To see the theory of facial expression and emotion described by Scott McCloud (which inspired this project), see pp. 80-101 of Making Comics. Description: Grimace is a free Flash-based web component which displays emotions through facial expressions of a comic-like face. It is based on the idea that the face can serve as an accurate representative of emotional information, which is difficult to express verbally. The face is simple yet highly expressive and can represent subtle emotional changes through arbitrary blending of 6 basic emotions. The design is derived from the book Making Comics by Scott McCloud. Possible applications include experimental research settings and the augmentation of textual descriptions on websites with emotional information.
High Tech High - Graphic Novel Project - 1 views
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The mission is: "To serve as a professional endeavor to create, make, and deliver to the public professional grade comic books and/or graphic novels. The HTH Graphic Novel Project produces stories that consciously serve the community in a positive way. We seek to encourage the help, support, and critique of professionals in related industries to the project in order to create the best products possible. The project is free to join. We, the members, recruit and encourage membership based on enthusiasm and seriousness towards meeting project goals and deadlines. We do not discriminate towards any person based on age, gender, race, or handicap."
Newsarama.com : Comics With A Purpose: DIARIO de OAXACA - 3 views
Reason for Higher Education :: Comic Books 101 | The Contemplation - 0 views
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Anthony Enns, cultural theorist
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“There are many different ways to teach (this course),” says Prof. Enns. “One obvious (way) would be to take a strict literary approach—read more highbrow comic books and make an argument for comic books as literature… If you were going to teach the course that way, I think you would probably not bother to teach superheroes. I think that would be a mistake. “So much of graphic material is made up of the superhero genre. It would be wrong to just ignore it.”
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“Is Wonder Woman a strong feminist figure, or is she a kind of a sex kitten? … (William Moulton) Marston, the creator, was really into S and M, he loved being tied up … there’s some aspect of sexual titillation to the Wonder Woman character.”
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Review: The Art of Jaime Hernandez - 0 views
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Todd Hignite's text for the Abrams' pretty The Art Of Jaime Hernandez is like the best testimonial ever written for a fancy tribute dinner, the kind of speechifying that makes you tear up a little bit in shared love for the subject of its adoration. One reads a lot of writing about cartoonists, but very little of it makes you want to shake the writer's hand, as is the case here. The love that many comics fans have for the work of Jaime Hernandez may be unique in comics because he's an artist that brings out that emotion in people that I would suggest are largely distrustful if not outright contemptuous of how frequently such feelings are expressed on behalf of so many other artists working in the medium. Jaime is a a comics artist people that find it hard to love artists love. Further, I think that people love Jaime for all the usual reasons one may love a comics artist, and then some folks love him a little more for all the reasons they love a great artist working any medium, and then a few folks love him that much more for being the avatar of a certain kind of relationship to comics, growing in seriousness of intent and human scope just as they were ready to read stories like that.
GNARP! Graphic Narrative Academic Reference Project - 0 views
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Home of the work-group building GNARP, based currently in an online Collaboratory of the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Features posts for discussion on various topics relating to graphic narratives such as graphic novels, manga and comics, as well as tools for interaction between members of the collaboratory. Contact the founder of this Diigo group for more information or to join the effort to pool the exciting scholarship being done on graphic narratives and its explosion in current pop culture.
300 - IMDB - 0 views
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First lets analyze what exactly this film is made of. Basically, the whole thing is just one epic fighting scene after another. Most noticeably is the camera work and the visual effects. Every shot seems like it was intended to be a work of art. The colors, the characters, the costumes, the backgrounds... every little detail has been given so much attention. During the big fights you'll also instantly notice the unique editing. There are a lot of "time slowdowns" throughout the battles which show what exactly is happening. Fatal wounds that slowly leak blood spatters in the air, decapitated heads traveling in slow-motion across the screen... it's all there. The story on the other hand isn't very complicated, in the sense that the whole movie could probably be described in a sentence or two. The dialogs are simple and most often talk about moral values like freedom and honor. If you would look at the script, it would probably look like another movie that has nothing more to offer then idealistic visions of how life should be.Reviewers of this title seem to be split up in two groups. They either love it with passion calling it an epic movie of the 21th century, or hate it even more and throw it off like a piece of garbage consisting of mindless action and silly cliché phrases. I feel reluctant to take a position in this argument. Normally it's tolerable to weigh out both sides of this matter to result in a fair judgment about a movie. Not in this one. On the one hand the visual are surely among the best to be witnessed in a movie. Every detail, every background, every special effect set to the scenes are so mindblowingly stunning. On the other hand the plot and dialogs are of the most simplistic and quite frankly dumb kind. "I fight for freedom! I'd rather die in honor then live in shame!" Sounds familiar?
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If you are easily impressed by beautiful landscapes, wonderful camera-work and editing and powerful acting then go see this. Right. Now. You'll be missing out if you don't. There is so much to see, so much power in the way this comic is translated to the big screen... It'll leave you in awe.