Doensbury Comics

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Favorite Comic?

Key features Comic Books and Graphic Novels

• Considered literary works, even if autobiographical or biographical in nature 
• Written text, including use of captions, word balloons, and display lettering  
• The inter-relationship between the visual image (illustration) and the written text
  
• Illustrations, including use of colour, shading, shape
  
• Spatial mechanics (how space is used within each panel)
  
• Temporal mechanics (how time is stopped, slowed down or speeded up)
  
• Use of gutters (white space between the panels)
  
• Use of panels – the impact of their order, shape, size
  

What is the difference between a comic artist and a cartoonist?

Whereas cartoonists' work is short form, either a single panel with a caption or several panels with some dialogue, the comic book artists' work follows a narrative; they create images in sequence to align with a story.

A comic is a medium, employing panels to tell a story sequentially; whereas a cartoon is a style, usually recognized as whimsical in nature with exaggerated elements.

A cartoonist draws illustrations that convey a particular message or idea. The illustrations that a cartoonist draws are called cartoons. They typically can stand on their own and often have a specific purpose, such as inviting consumers to purchase a product or providing a political opinion. For example, a cartoonist might draw a political cartoon to offer their own commentary on a current event.

A comic artist designs the visual aspects of comics and graphic novels, including the panels, characters, settings and text. Most comic artists draw the illustrations for comics that they don't write the story or dialogue for, which means they typically have to find ways to incorporate text from other writers and story artists when creating each page.

Comic strip: a single line of two or more panels that tells a story within its concise format. 

 most often appear in newspapers, magazines and online publications.

Comic book:  use sequences of comic strips that appear on full pages to convey narratives. 

Graphic novel:  a long-form comic book that tells a complex story using several pages of panels. 

Comic strip: A comic strip is a single line of two or more panels that tells a story within its concise format. Comic strips most often appear in newspapers, magazines and online publications.

Comic book: Comic books use sequences of comic strips that appear on full pages to convey narratives. You can typically read and purchase comic books at comic bookshops, bookstores and digitally through online retailers.

Graphic novel: A graphic novel is a long-form comic book that tells a complex story using several pages of panels. Graphic novels are most similar to comic books, but they're typically much longer and might take more time to read.

Authorial Intent

 Authorial intent refers to an author's intent as it is encoded in their work. Authorial intentionalism is the view, according to which an author's intentions should constrain the ways in which it is properly interpreted.

We as readers are manipulatedprogramed by the author to think the way we think. Chance to watch The Social Dilemma on netflix.

Estimated Work Load 5-6 hours

For this lesson you will need

• Internet connection 
• Access to the group link sent to you via magistar
• Access to Lessonup link sent to you via magistar
• Doesbury comic workbook - handed out in class. 
• Note book and colour pens/pencils for annotation. 
• Previous Notes on Global Issues and BOW's 

Plan your time over a period of one week

NOT NEEDED anymore

Before you begin keep in mind

formative assessment - is FOR learning and no grade is given

summative assessment - is OF learning and a grade is given

Be able to distinguish between these two for this module. 

Begin with the end in Mind

Formative assessment - proof that you have followed the program. Your teacher will view your progress.  

Summative assessment - there is no summative assessment for this module but your work will be added to your portfolio for possible use in an Individual Oral in 2024/25. You may also be called upon in class to tell your views on a certain comic. 

 

Read the comics

 Today -  

Look at your Global Issues and your Doensbury Comics. Pair each GI with a Doensbury Comic. Why is is funny? 

Tuesdays Class

Be ready to present a three minute oral  about one of global issues and how it relates to one of the comics.  

Don't procrastinate.  

WATCH THE FOLLOWING TWO VIDEOS AND TAKE NOTES ABOUT THE CARTOONS AND THE AUTHOR. THINK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IS CLASS AND FOCUS ON THE LANGUAGE USED REGARDING COMICS IN GENERAL AND DOENSBURY IN PARTICULAR. 

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Take notes on this video  

What kind of cartoonist is Trudeau. Think about back ground, types of themes that he focuses on . 

Know your characters names, and their background. 

Who is Doensbury?

Click the next slide to go to the wikipedia page which explains a bit about the main character

Take note of any information you may find useful. 

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Start at 3.18 

Have students take notes on what he is saying.

Teacher takes notes on the board first about the key words he uses. Then other board on the four panels including key words. 

First panel - exposition - what is that in your cartoon. Why is this important

Second/Third panels moves the story forwards and builds up the suspense to

Fourth panel - not just funny but surprise or patronising or cynical or satirical or whatever he uses to make us first laugh then think and sometimes as in his 30 years of cartooning Turmp - he hits the proverbial nail on the head - saying directly what we all want to say. 

Select six comics (one per global issue) and think about :

Which field of inquiry

Which global issue is being represented and WHY and HOW

How is meaning constructed

How has the meaning been negotiated

What is the view point being expressed

How would a reader interpret this meaning

Write a short paragraph for each cartoon answering the above and add this to your portfolio. 

Think about the seven concepts and the fields of inquiry and the areas of exploration to help you. 

Lesson Two 

Wordsmithing your Global Issue

On the following slide fill in the following sentence for each comic.

How does this text explore..........

Use your fields of inquiry to help you.

Text

Narrowing down your GI ideas

How does this  text explore aspects race and ethnicity, and the way these impact on individuals and societies.

How does this text investigate  aspects gender and sexuality, and the way these impact the perception of the female adolescence.

How does this text reflect or challenge male dominance within the feminist point of view. 

Strong Analytic Verbs to focus on 

to suggest  to reveal  to diminish  to convey  to establish  to illustrate  to connote  to compare  to address  to exhibit  to explore  to reflect  to present  to represent  to examine  to develop

How does this text explore...

Word Smithing the global issue

Use one of the following ideas to strengthen your GI

The impact of (........) on ............

The relationship between (.....) and (.......)

The question of (.........) during a time of (........)

Interpretations of (........) in (..........) 

(.........) as a force of (..........) 

Word Smithing the global issue

Possible presentation structure

Introduce your Global Issue. Tell us which comic you are going to speak about. (so we can refer to it and annotate)

Think about your HOW question and come up with the ideas, messages etc that the author wants the reader to understand and which authorial components does he use to do this. 

Refer in the end again to your Global Issue and how it may pertain to the complete body of work. 

Next class -  

Be ready to present a three minute oral  about one of global issues and how it relates to one of the comics.  

Don't procrastinate. You will be getting a new assignment next week. 

Tomorrow 

Groups of four. Read to each other your presentation. Choose which of the four is the best.

Be ready to present.

Add everything including your presentation to your Portfolio.