Slides shown at a session with CETA at St Margaret's College in Christchurch on April 4, 2013)

6. What
are
comics?

7. Comics
are not
a genre

8. Michael Turner

9. Carl Barks,
Uncle Scrooge

10. Charles Schulz, Peanuts

11. Comics
are a
form

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
have
history

35. “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 Pearson
letter to Landfall (March, 1955)

37. Dr. Frederic
Wertham

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

49. David Hajdu,
The Ten-Cent Plague

50. Comics
are
global

51. MANGA
Shojo Shonen
Shojo Beat Shonen Jump

52. 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

53. Amruta Patil,
Kari & Parva

54. Nikolai Maslov,
Siberia

55. Various,
Congo 50

56. 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)

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

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

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

60. Nga Pakiwaituhi
o Aotearoa:
New Zealand
Comics

61. Pakiwaitara + Tuhi
story + writing/drawing

62. How to read
comics

63. Bill Watterson

65. Reading pictures

67. closure

70. Drawings are a kind
of language

71. Visual metaphor

72. David B.

73. Vocabularies of
conventional signs

74. Herge

75. Miwa Ueda, Peach Girl

76. Pictures
can be
like
words

77. Chris Ware
Acme Novelty
Library

78. Chris Ware
Sketchbook

79. Dialects, Idioms,
Accents

84. Style as individual
‘voice’

85. H. G. Potter / Chester Brown

86. Robert Crumb &
Aline
Kominsky-Crumb

87. Picture + Picture =
Comics

91. Taniguchi
The Man Who Walks

93. SCOTT McCLOUD
Understanding Comics:
The Invisible Art

94. Syntax & Grammar

96. Herge
Tintin In Tibet

98. Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira

99. Chester Brown
Louis Riel

100. Chris Ware

101. Chris Ware

102. Words + Pictures

105. Will Eisner
Comics & Sequential Art

106. Jim Woodring
Frank

107. Jim Woodring
Frank

108. John Byrne

110. James
Pannafino,
Typographic
Comics

113. Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus

114. Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus

115. Dave Sim &
Gerhard,
Cerebus

116. Words
can be
like
pictures

117. Goscinny & Uderzo, Asterix the Legionary

120. Chris Ware
Jimmy Corrigan:
Smartest Kid on Earth

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

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

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