Presentation given at Westlake Boys High School in May 2012.

4. What
are
comics?

5. Comics
are not
a genre

6. Michael Turner

7. Carl Barks,
Uncle Scrooge

8. Charles Schulz, Peanuts

9. Comics
are a
form

12. Lorenzo Mattotti & Claudio Persanti,
Stigmata

13. Shaun Tan,
The Arrival

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

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

18. Comics
are a form
used to tell
many kinds
of stories

19. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons,
The Watchmen

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

21. Craig Thompson, Blankets

22. Posy Simmonds,
Tamara Drewe

23. Chester Brown,
Louis Riel

24. Art Spiegelman,
Maus

25. Alison Bechdel,
Fun Home

26. Marjane Satrapi,
Persepolis

27. Joe Sacco,
Footnotes in Gaza

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

29. Carol Lay,
The Big Skinny

30. A selection of
Christian tracts from
Jack T. Chick comics

31. Scott McCloud,
Understanding Comics
Reinventing Comics
Making Comics

32. David Raw,
Drawing Silence

33. Comics
are
global

34. MANGA
Shojo Shonen
Shojo Beat Shonen Jump

35. BD
Blutch, Blotch: Le Roi de Paris
Edmond Baudoin, Le Chemin de Saint-Jean
Joann Sfar, Pascin
Jacques Tardi & JeanVautrin, Le Cri Du Peuple
Frederic Boilet & Benôit Peeters, Tokyo est mon
Jardin
Philippe Dupuy, Hanté

36. Amruta Patil,
Kari & Parva

37. Nikolai Maslov,
Siberia

38. Various,
Congo 50

39. 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)

40. Chris Slane & Matt Elliott,
Nice Day for a War:
Adventures of a Kiwi
Soldier in World War I
(Harper Collins NZ)

41. Ant Sang,
Shaolin Burning
(Harper Collins NZ)

42. Chris Grosz,
Kimble Bent Malcontent
(Random House NZ)

43. Nga Pakiwaituhi
o Aotearoa:
New Zealand
Comics

44. Pakiwaitara + Tuhi
story + writing/drawing

45. How to read
comics

46. Bill Watterson

48. Reading pictures

50. closure

53. Drawings are a kind
of language

54. Chantal Montellier

55. Visual metaphor

56. David B.

57. Vocabularies of
conventional signs

58. Herge

59. Miwa Ueda, Peach Girl

60. Dialects, Idioms,
Accents

65. Style as individual
‘voice’

66. H. G. Potter / Chester Brown

67. Robert Crumb &
Aline
Kominsky-Crumb

68. Picture + Picture =
Comics

72. Taniguchi
The Man Who Walks

74. SCOTT McCLOUD
Understanding Comics:
The Invisible Art

75. Syntax & Grammar

77. Herge
Tintin In Tibet

79. Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira

80. Chester Brown
Louis Riel

81. Chris Ware

82. Chris Ware

91. Words + Pictures

94. Will Eisner
Comics & Sequential Art

95. Jim Woodring
Frank

96. Jim Woodring
Frank

97. John Byrne

99. Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus

100. Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus

101. Dave Sim &
Gerhard,
Cerebus

102. Goscinny & Uderzo, Asterix the Legionary

105. Chris Ware
Jimmy Corrigan:
Smartest Kid on Earth

109. Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics
Paul Gravett, Manga – Sixty Years of Japanese Comics

110. Paul Gravett,
Graphic Novels – Everything You Need to Know
(also known as Graphic Novels – Stories to Change Your life)

111. The Best American Comics
Cover art by Michael Cho (left), Jillian Tamaki (right)