Today, please gather in your autobiography groups for 15-20 minutes. Finalize your discussion. Say your last opinions, etc. If you have not completed parts of your reading group guide project, please turn those into the in-box along with your homework from last class: The KWL and Cornell notes on Comic History (1-9). See below for details.
Use your notes and what you learned from them as you read a comic book from one of these sites. Download (or PREVIEW) and read. Apply what you read about. You will be asked next class to review your chosen comic, including the plot/story/characters appearing in the issue, the writers, illustrators, the historical/social context, etc. Make sure you turn this work in today--I'll hand materials back to you by Wednesday.
— The Los Angeles Times
Use your notes and what you learned from them as you read a comic book from one of these sites. Download (or PREVIEW) and read. Apply what you read about. You will be asked next class to review your chosen comic, including the plot/story/characters appearing in the issue, the writers, illustrators, the historical/social context, etc. Make sure you turn this work in today--I'll hand materials back to you by Wednesday.
MAUS by Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden and immigrated to the US with his parents during his early childhood. He is one of the most well-know artists of Graphic Novels, and has greatly contributed to their acceptance as valued works of art in society today. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Maus I--a Holocaust narrative of his father's survival.
Spiegelman went against his parents' wishes for him to be a dentist and began drawing professionally at age 16. After college, he became a part of the underground comix movement. He took on various pseudonyms and contributed to the publishing of many underground comics. He also taught a Comics Seminar at Colombia University in 2007.
"Spiegelman has become one of The New Yorker’s most sensational artists, in recent years drawing illustrations for covers that are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images once unimaginable in the magazine of old moneyed taste ... From his Holocaust saga in which Jewish mice are exterminated by Nazi cats, to the The New Yorker covers guaranteed to offend, to a wild party that ends in murder: Art Spiegelman’s cartoons don’t fool around."
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Please begin reading Maus today with Ms. Sloane. She'll guide you from there.
Homework: None
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