Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

Thursday, December 27, 2018

While The City Sleeps...



Click to Enlarge!   This is an old Comic maker I was trying to track down for my list.  It requires Flash.



https://www.culturestreet.org.uk/activities/superactioncomicmaker/index.php?id=2

Monday, September 17, 2018

Milking the Story

I haven't read any of the Bone comics, but Scholastic has a Bone Comic Maker with fun characters and backgrounds for you to tell your own Bone Tale.  They also have Amulet and Smile.



Saturday, March 26, 2016

My Favorite Comics Wordfind








I haven't seen Batman vs. Superman yet, but everything I know about it makes me wish for comics of the era when I was reading them. 

Closer in spirit to my heroes are the television Flash and Supergirl, who happen to be teaming up on Monday night :)



Saturday, November 7, 2009

I Read Comics as a Child and I turned out Alright (Right?)

A super cool professor of library science (none of my professors were like this) named Carol Tilley is defending comics as early literacy tools. In an article titled For Improving Early Literacy, Reading Comics Is No Child's Play at Science Daily, she talks about her ideas:

A lot of the criticism of comics and comic books come from people who think that kids are just looking at the pictures and not putting them together with the words," Tilley said. "Some kids, yes. But you could easily make some of the same criticisms of picture books -- that kids are just looking at pictures, and not at the words."

Absolutely. Except for a few BAM! POW! BOOFs!! comic vocabulary is quite sophisticated in general. Great reading material. And because it fires the imagination so much, it keeps the reader a Reader for many years, if not for life. Alice would heartily approve of comics.