Steven 1.5 work

 Global Global Issue: Sustainable development, expansion of urban developments.

Steven

In the background there is a bulldozer which is levelling the ground and paving the way for developments. The characters are walking on mushy rubble, it looks very disgusting and uncomfortable as if to imply that this is the result of the developments. Then there is the image of a cut log, it is implied that the log was cut to allow for the developments to take place. The characters look saddened by the remarks they are making. 

The final slide includes the aforementioned messy rubble, including the broken log. In addition, the characters are distant from the ‘camera’, and are looking away as they explain: ‘I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world’, ‘I think if you're born it's too late’.

The text most likely represents the artist's views on the subject - people, especially kids, are being negatively affected by something that is addressed by the Global Issue.

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:

Ben Garrison BOW

 GI: Incompetence in the American Democrat Party / Current Establishment

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Creator: Ben Garrison

Ben Garrison is an American cartoonist often vilified and mocked (by left-wing commentators) and appreciated and somewhat respected (by conservatives). His work mainly parodies US Democrats in an exaggerated, over-the-top way to make his points, while joking at the same time. This gives him free-reign in some sense to go over the line, as he is purposefully being hyperbolic. Most of his cartoons recently focus on corruption or incompetence in the ruling establishment (the Joe Biden administration) in the US.

Street art

To complement PhilpotNew U1.6

Graffiti vs street art: http://www.columbia.edu/~sl3731/graffitiART/
Street art festival Stencibility in Tartu: http://stencibility.eu/
The history
of street art: https://study.com/academy/lesson/street-art-definition-history.html
of graffiti: https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-graffiti-definition-history-types.html
The art of graffiti-tagging:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-04/the-art-of-graffiti-tagging/6959396
Street art terms illustrated:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51583/14-street-art-terms%E2%80%94illustrated
Mural and fresco: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-mural-and-a-fresco
Making a street artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnqEQDDf6Zo (7:03)
Berlin Wall graffiti art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall_graffiti_art
Some Banksy:
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/cctp-725-fall2013/2013/10/28/bansky-art-and-environment-in-street-art/
Most famous street art with a strong message:
https://www.boredpanda.com/environmental-street-art-graffiti-climate-change/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Slap! sticker exhibition: https://www.graffitistreet.com/stencibility-festival-presents-the-slap-van-europes-largest-ever-sticker-exhibition-2019/

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Mextonia: http://www.mextonia.com/
An example not that easy to see:

The Deepest Depths of the Burrow - Street Art & Graffiti Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln54lV-vm94 (1:45:04)
Banksy Exit Through The Gift Shop 2010 eng subs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8iaAFAM58 (1:26:06)

Task: What would you paint on a wall (and where and on what exactly) if you were going to apply for the possibility to make street art during the next Stencibility festival? Draw to scale. Justify your choices of theme, style, colours, figures, text, location, message, target audience, etc. OR design a sticker for the slap van :)

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:

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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