My BOW by Timo Liiv

My author of choice was Mike Thompson, an editorial cartoonist/animator for the Detroit Free Press. He is an American and a lot of his work is based around the American government and political figures (e.g Donald J. Trump). For my global issues, I chose the denial of climate change and anti-vaxxers. The next 12 cartoons are going to be based on the denial of climate change being real:

The next three cartoons will be based on the global issue of anti-vaxxers:

Comics and cartoons and graphic novels

To complement PhilpotNew U 1.5

On Tera (in the folder "How to analyse"):
* Analyse a cartoon
* Deconstructing cartoons
* Gender in cartoons

Calvin and Hobbes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAN7TZ6Wpag (9:06)
Calvin and Hobbes search: https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
Dear Mr Watterson: https://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2013/11/14/34648/dear-mr-watterson-we-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKFaLKMCzYQ (33:49)
https://www.dearmrwatterson.com/
Difference: A cartoon is a single panel image usually used to convey an idea. A comic is a story told using sequential panel images. Sometimes the terms cartoon strip or comic strip are used interchangeably to describe a hybrid of the two.
Main elements of a comic:

Different emanata:
https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2008/07/word-of-the-week-emanata.html

Task: Consult the blog post on sustainable development goals, and find a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon or comic strip to illustrate one of the goals there.
If you have already found some other text type to illustrate one of the goals, be ready to present that, too.
Example:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ee/65/86/ee65865b69552d3d863f8d715d5cebe4.jpg)


















Best comic books ever: https://www.amexessentials.com/top-most-powerful-graphic-novels/
https://vocal.media/geeks/best-graphic-novels-ever-written
List of famous cartoonists: https://www.ranker.com/list/notable-cartoonist_s)/reference

Graphic novels

This source gives a good overview of what is out there but probably doesn't allow you to read much online: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/explore/topic/graphic-novels
Some things are exceptionally useful, though, e.g. the comics timeline.
Comics can be read here (but beware of some stupid ad blocking your view - seems to be OK when you open the same site twice, it doesn't come up in the second window): https://readcomiconline.to/
Read graphic novels online here: https://www.comicextra.com/graphic-novels-comic

NB! If you find a great source of a lone-standing book that is readable online free, or a place where many can be read free, share here :)

Political cartoons BOW

IO, BOWs & GIs: What are they? (Individual Oral, Body of Work, Global Issue - you can consult relevant blog posts)

Political cartoons: work starts now and carries on into both homework and subsequent classwork, and ends up both in your portfolio and presented to class:

* detailed discussion of PhilpotNew U 1.4

* doing the tasks mentioned in my previous blog post on political cartoons

* preparing to curate and present to class a Body of Work (= BOW): a set of about 15 political cartoons by the same author (functioning predominantly in the English language in the English-speaking world or globally) whose work has several Global Issues (= GIs) evident in them.

While presenting, you show the whole set of cartoons to class, tell us about the background to the author, the GIs you have chosen and how they are represented in the author's work, and choose 2 cartoons for looking at in detail in class with concentrating on different aspects, e.g. how symbols have been used, or how words and pictures complement each other, or how the ambience adds to the reception of the cartoons, etc.  You decide which cartoons to concentrate on, and how exactly you do this, and which IB LangLit aims this will help you to achieve.

Political cartoons

To go with PhilpotNew U1.4

How to analyse: https://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Political-Cartoons

https://moad-web.s3.amazonaws.com/heracles-production/9c0/341/fe0/9c0341fe0b2eee4391624ac60334d219e3ca8daebc25fe49805f03af2351/02-How-to-Analyse-teachers-notes.pdf

On Youtube: How To Analyze Political Cartoons by a couple of different people - watch some!

Recent political cartoons: https://www.politico.com/news/political-cartoons

This includes a task: http://www.lincolnlogcabin.org/education-kits/Abraham-Lincoln-Lesson-Plans/Lesson-5.pdf