Graphic Literature Interactive Workshop

Pam McCombs

Would you like to incorporate the sequential-art-narratives of comics and graphic novels into your teaching? Well join four EMWP fellows, K-13 writing instructors this June 24-26. In this interactive workshop you will be immersed into activities that introduce you to visual literacy, and get you reading and writing comics with the ultimate goal to create your own sequential art memoirs.
Through reading and discussing various resources on sequential-art-narratives, participants will gain a complete understanding of the value comics and graphic novels can hold within our classrooms. Sources to be used:

• Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and Making Comics
• Will Eisner’s Comics and the Sequential Art Narrative
• Thierry Groensteen’s The System of Comics
• Rocco Versaci’s “Literary Literacy and the Role of the Comic book” from Teaching Visual Literacy
• Lynda Barry’s What it is