A brief introduction to comics & graphic novels in school libraries. Used at SLANZAK 2011 conference. All images are Uploaded for reference.

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

7. “ 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)

8. Art Spiegelman, Maus: a Survivor’s Tale Pulitzer Prize winner National Book Critics Circle Award nominee Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction

9. Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth American Book Award Guardian First Book Award First cartoonist invited to exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial exhibition

10. Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese Michael L. Printz Award for Best YA Book National Book Award finalist

11. Siena Cherson Siegel & Mark Siegel, To Dance: a Ballerina’s Graphic Novel An ALA Robert F. Sibert Honor Book

12. Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood

14. Carl Barks, Uncle Scrooge

15. Charles Schulz, Peanuts

17. Lorenzo Mattotti, Stigmates

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

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

22. Bill Watterson

24. we read pictures

26. closure

30. A picture can tell a story

32. Picture + Picture = Comics

36. Pictures + Words = Comics

40. WILL EISNER Comics & Sequential Art

41. Pictures can be like words

43. MIWA UEDA, Peach Girl

44. Chris Ware Acme Novelty Library

45. Chris Ware Sketchbook

46. Words can be like pictures

47. DAVE SIM & GERHARD, Cerebus

48. GOSCINNY & UDERZO, Asterix the Legionary

50. Comics use words and pictures t o tell all kinds of stories

51. Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin

52. Goscinny & Uderzo, Asterix the Gaul

53. Asterix in Latin, Published by Egmont Ehapa Verlag GmbH

54. Albert Algoud, L’Intégrale des Jurons du Capitaine Haddock

55. Cinebook www.cinebook.co.uk

56. Tove Jansson, Moomin

57. Joann Sfar, Little Vampire

58. Jeff Smith, Bone

59. Shaun Tan, The Arrival

60. Raymond Briggs, Ethel & Ernest, When the Wind Blows

61. Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe

62. Alan Moore (et al), Watchmen, Miracleman, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top 10; James Sturm (et al), Unstable Molecules; Warren Ellis (et al), The Authority; Grant Morrison (et al), The Invisibles

63. Neil Gaiman (et al), Sandman Brian K. Vaughan (et al), Y: the Last Man Vertigo – DC’s ‘mature readers’ imprint

64. Mike Mignola (et al), Hellboy

65. Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim

66. Hope Larson, Chiggers & Mercury

67. Raina Telgemeier, Smile

68. Craig Thompson, Blankets

69. Joann Sfar, The Rabbi’s Cat

70. David B., Epilectic

71. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

72. Shakespeare adapatations by various, including Gareth Hinds

73. Nicki Greenberg, Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Allen & Unwin)

74. Gareth Hinds, The Odyssey

75. Eric Shanower, Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships

76. Charles Schulz, Peanuts (being collected by Fantagraphics Books)

77. George Herriman, Krazy Kat (being collected as Krazy and Ignatz by Fantagraphics Books

78. Roy Crane, Captain Easy

79. Bill Blackbeard & Martin Williams, The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics

80. Dan Nadel, Art out of Time

81. Jack Kirby: “ the King of Comics”

82. Osamu Tezuka: “ the God of Manga”

83. Shojo Shonen Shojo Beat Shonen Jump

84. Shojo – manga for girls (and liberated boys) Clamp, Cardcaptor Sakura Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket

85. Gender- bending manga: Rumiko Takahashi (Japan, 1957-), Ranma 1/2

86. Seinen – more mature ‘shonen’ manga Mochizuki Minetaro, Dragon Head Naoki Urasawa, Monster

87. Josei – manga for women Yayoi Ogawa, Tramps Like Us

88. Erica Sakurazawa, Angel Nest

89. 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)

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

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

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

93. Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza

94. Emmanuel Guibert & Didier Lefevre, The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

95. Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick, Feynman

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

97. Carol Lay, The Big Skinny

98. Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki, Oishinbo A La Carte Gurume Gourmet comics

99. Shotaro Ishinomori, Japan Inc.: an introduction to Japanese Economics Information manga

102. James Kochalka, American Elf

103. David Raw, Drawing Silence

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

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

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

107. David Hajdu , The Ten-Cent Plague

108. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics Reinventing Comics Making Comics

109. James Sturm, Andrew Arnold & Alexis Frederick-Frost , Adventures in Cartooning Adventures in Cartooning Activity Book

110. Various authors, The DC Comics Guides

111. http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7582

112. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/greatgraphicnovelsforteens/gn.cfm

113. http://graphicclassroom.blogspot.com/