Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Frederic Wertham (1954)

“The comics erode the most fundamental habits of humane, civilised living… and they erode them in the most vulnerable element of our society, our children…

“If we ban the comics we are reducing the chances of war and preventing the further perversion of the world’s children.”

Bill Pearsonletter to Landfall (March, 1955)

Art Spiegelman,Maus: a Survivor’s Tale

Pulitzer Prize winnerNational Book Critics Circle Award nomineeLos Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction

Chris WareJimmy Corrigan:

Smartest Kid on Earth

American Book AwardGuardian First Book AwardFirst cartoonist invited to exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial exhibition

Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

Michael L. Printz Award for Best YA BookNational Book Award finalist

Siena Cherson Siegel & Mark Siegel, To Dance: a Ballerina’s Graphic Novel

An ALA Robert F. Sibert Honor Book

Marjane Satrapi,Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood

Carl Barks, Uncle Scrooge

Charles Schulz, Peanuts

Lorenzo Mattotti, Stigmates

Meister Bertram von Minden,The Grabower Altar, 1375-1383

Colin McCahon, 6 Days in Nelson & Canterbury (1950)

Bill Watterson

we read

pictures

closure

A picture can tell a story

Picture + Picture = Comics

Pictures + Words = Comics

WILL EISNERComics & Sequential Art

Pictures can be like words

MIWA UEDA, Peach Girl

Chris WareAcme Novelty Library

Chris WareSketchbook

Words can be like

pictures

DAVE SIM & GERHARD, Cerebus

GOSCINNY & UDERZO, Asterix the Legionary

Comics use words and

pictures to tell all kinds of

stories

Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin

Goscinny & Uderzo, Asterix the Gaul

Asterix in Latin,Published by Egmont Ehapa Verlag GmbH

Albert Algoud, L’Intégrale des Jurons du Capitaine Haddock

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uk

Tove Jansson, Moomin

Joann Sfar, Little Vampire

Jeff Smith, Bone

Shaun Tan, The Arrival

Raymond Briggs, Ethel & Ernest, When the Wind Blows

Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe

Alan Moore (et al), Watchmen, Miracleman,

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,

Top 10;James Sturm (et al), Unstable Molecules; Warren Ellis (et al),

The Authority; Grant Morrison (et al),

The Invisibles

Neil Gaiman (et al), Sandman Brian K. Vaughan (et al), Y: the Last Man

Vertigo – DC’s ‘mature readers’ imprint

Mike Mignola (et al), Hellboy

Bryan Lee O’Malley,

Scott Pilgrim

Hope Larson, Chiggers & Mercury

Raina Telgemeier, Smile

Craig Thompson, Blankets

Joann Sfar, The Rabbi’s Cat

David B., Epilectic

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Shakespeare adapatations by various, including Gareth Hinds

Nicki Greenberg, Shakespeare’s Hamlet(Allen & Unwin)

Gareth Hinds, The Odyssey

Eric Shanower, Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships

Charles Schulz, Peanuts(being collected by Fantagraphics Books)

George Herriman, Krazy Kat

(being collected as Krazy and Ignatz by Fantagraphics Books

Roy Crane, Captain Easy

Bill Blackbeard & Martin Williams, The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics

Dan Nadel, Art out of Time

Jack Kirby: “the King of Comics”

Osamu Tezuka: “the God of Manga”

Shojo Shonen

Shojo Beat Shonen Jump

Shojo – manga for girls (and liberated boys)

Clamp, Cardcaptor Sakura Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket

Gender- bending manga: Rumiko Takahashi (Japan, 1957-), Ranma 1/2

Seinen – more mature ‘shonen’ manga

Mochizuki Minetaro, Dragon Head

Naoki Urasawa, Monster

Josei – manga for women

Yayoi Ogawa, Tramps Like Us

Erica Sakurazawa, Angel Nest

Bob Kerr & Stephen Ballantyne, Terry and the Gunrunners

(Collins 1982) Terry and the Last Moa(Finlayson Hill 1986)

Terry and the Yodelling Bull(Hodder & Stoughton 1999)

Chris Slane & Robert Sullivan,

Maui: Legends of the Outcast (Godwit 1997)

Chris Slane & Matt Elliott,

Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War I(Harper Collins NZ)

Ant Sang, Shaolin Burning

(Harper Collins NZ)

Chris Grosz, Kimble Bent Malcontent

(Random House NZ)

Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza

Emmanuel Guibert & Didier Lefevre,

The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with

Doctors Without Borders

Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick, Feynman

Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna, Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth

Carol Lay,The Big Skinny

Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki,Oishinbo A La Carte

Gurume Gourmet comics

Shotaro Ishinomori,

Japan Inc.: an introduction to

Japanese Economics

Information manga

James Kochalka, American Elf

David Raw,Drawing Silence

The Best American ComicsCover art by Michael Cho (left), Jillian Tamaki (right)

Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels – Everything You Need to Know

(also known as Graphic Novels – Stories to Change Your life)

Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese ComicsPaul Gravett, Manga – Sixty Years of Japanese Comics

David Hajdu,The Ten-Cent Plague

Scott McCloud, Understanding ComicsReinventing Comics

Making Comics

James Sturm, Andrew Arnold & Alexis Frederick-Frost,Adventures in Cartooning

Adventures in Cartooning Activity Book

Various authors, The DC Comics Guides

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