Hi Everyone,
I will be asking you to post to our course blog in the near future for class participation credit. You will be able to share your responses and ideas about what you are reading, writing, or drawing with the other Graphic Novel class sections. Many colleges are utilizing various technologies to enhance learning, so I thought it might be helpful for you to practice online discussions in case this is required of you in your future.
When you are at your computer alone, the extra time and solitude allows you the ability to perhaps think more deeply about something you have read or heard in class. Some people are great with answers "off the cuff" or enjoy discussion in class. Others are more reluctant or need more time to process ideas, so the blog can help fill those gaps.
You MUST consider the medium in which you shall participate. This means knowing that what you write is published for any and all on the Internet to read. If you are disrespectful or inappropriate, you will be unable to participate and will be disciplined accordingly. The posts on this blog should be related to the material we cover in our graphic novel course only!
Avoid repeating the ideas of others when you post! See Rubric for further requirements.
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ReplyDeletehello fellow classmates and random people on the interweb, so far on our graphic novel movies project, we narrowed down the movies we want to learn about. The movies we chose are Sin City, The Spirit, 300, Watchman, The Mask, Spawn, Blade, Wanted, V for Vendetta.
ReplyDeleteSo far in our project of Frank Miller, we have researched him using several sources including a New York Times article. We found the book Graphic Novelists that gave us some good information on Frank Miller. WE currently have taken notes on what we have read and printed three articles on the life of Frank Miller.
ReplyDeleteSo far I have not been in class to do work so I have nothing done. On a lighter my fellow group memebers have done a lot of research on the person Frank Miller. Frank Miller is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark. film noir style comic book stories and graphic novels. The work he is known for is Daredevil, Batman:The dark knight returns, Sin city, and 300. he was born January 27th 1957 and he is currently 52 years old. He lives in Olney, maryland United States. He is an American. During class today I will continue my research.
ReplyDeletenot much to say really. so far my group has chosen a few movies that are based on graphic novels that we will be analyzing and that we will be watching at mag's house this weekend. the movies are Sin City, The Spirit, 300, Watchman, The Mask, Spawn, Blade, Wanted, V for Vendetta.
ReplyDeletehello there, so far we have made a list of what movies we are going to compare. And we are about to find out the timeline in making each movie/graphic novel.
ReplyDeleteKazuo Koike was the first Japanese person to create a series of comics. His first comic series was very similar to the James Bond series.H opened a studio in 1980 and had many employees. Just some information.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the only one actually working in the group, Matt Dahl is chatting it up with Lydia all the time and also trying to fix his Mac because his "cache" isn't working because of the fact that Macs are absolutely terrible.
ReplyDelete"Want to see me make a pencil dissappear?"
So who is Stan Lee? He is the creator of Marvel Studios and produces comics. With help he turned the comics into movies and shows such as Spider Man and the Fantastic Four.
ReplyDeleteour group has been looking for information on Frank Miller for the past two days in class. We're trying to get a good balance of internet and textual sources. We are almost done finding sources of information and then we'll begin to get a good idea of who Frank Miller is and what he's done.
ReplyDeleteMe and Jason used Infotrac to find quite a resourceful article that gave us ample information on controversy in the comic industry. This article also provided us with the titles of several books that cover a vast amount of intriguing information on this highly gripping topic.
ReplyDeletei work with nick reading articles about the controversy of comics in the 1950's -jason
ReplyDeleteNick Hall's comment sounds VERY academic! I'm impressed. Nice "school mask" you are wearing Nick!!!
ReplyDeleteProject Update: Matt Dahl is describing his trip to see Victor Wooten with Mr. Quinn and we still haven't done much on this project. It would be a miracle if we get this project done on time with Matt in our group.
ReplyDeleteToday my group and I are finishing up our research. We are trying to find more sources with textual and picture infromation. We also decided on what we wanted to do for our project in a presentation way. Of course I can't post what that is because you might steal our awesome idea.
ReplyDeleteProject Update: We are still working hard on the timeline of both the graphic novels and movies
ReplyDeleteMe and mags are still doing research about the graphic novel movies dispite zach not being here to help
ReplyDeleteToday my group decided on what we want to do for a project. We have taken good information down and we have all our sources in mla format. By tomorrow we should be ready to start creatign our project.
ReplyDeleteBatman The Dark Knight graphic novel is very different from the The Dark Kinght movie.
ReplyDeleteMy group and I began creating our project today.... so far it is looking good! Here is some factual information about Frank Miller. This is what I would like to call a "preview" of our final project. In 1986, DC Comics released writer-penciler Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue miniseries printed in what the publisher called "prestige format" — a squarebound, rather than stapled; on heavy-stock paper rather than newsprint, and with cardstock rather than glossy-paper covers. It was inked by Klaus Janson and colored by Lynn Varley.
ReplyDeleteThe story tells how Batman retired after the death of the second Robin (Jason Todd), and at age 55 returns to fight crime in a dark and violent future. Miller created a tough, gritty portrayal of Batman, who is often referred to as "the Dark Knight."
Charlie and I have been working on Stan Lee's timeline and have been getting ready to start the typed up document part of the project. We learned more about Stan Lee's life as he was growing up and that he bacme an editor a the age of 17.
ReplyDeleteSo far my group has found several sites about comic book controversy in the 1950s. Did everyone know that in 1954 the Senate held an investigatory commitee on the harmful effects of comic books?
ReplyDeleteMy group has used a variety of sources to find valuable information. I used a great book for the timeline. Brandon has used a book and a few websites as well as an article from the NYTimes. He wrote about Mad Magazine and is looking at famous people in the comics industry. Matt is currently using a book to add to his paper about the golden age of comics that he started by using a cool article from the Times. We all love research projects!!
ReplyDeleteOur group is still working hard. We are about to start our construction of our powerpoint about the graphic novel 'The Dark Knight'.
ReplyDeletewell my group is finally wrapping up our project. mags and moose have decided that they are going to do the art part of the project and make either a power poit or poster board while i am going to write the essay detailing the differences and similarities between The Dark Knight graphic Novel and movie.
ReplyDeleteOur group is finalizing our project and will be ready to presesent on tuesday and fascinate everyone.
ReplyDeleteMatt and I are working well with each other. Where almost done with our project and now were just working on citations and are on our paper.
ReplyDeleteToday I started working on the visual part of this project by putting superheroes and other images on a powerpoint with some preset backgrounds. Then next to me is Charlie and he is supplying the good music and beats to keep me going in a early 1st block of english. Right now we are listening to the she wolf remix with shakira and tpain and Charlie wants me to mention that we will have a jaw dropping essay to go along with the visuals and that this is the end of our preview.
ReplyDeleteMy group is planning on citing important sources from the 1950s, when comic book hysteria gripped the nation. Did everyone know that the word crime was limited in comic books due to the restrictive comic code of the 1950s?
ReplyDeleteour group has uncoverd much information about the comic book controversy of the 1950's . We have seemed to leanr more about the worl dof grpahic novels and thir dark and explicit history
ReplyDeleteIts friday and now we are finishing up the paper and adding facts into our information that we will be presenting wednesday. Where was The "man" Stan Lee born? New York
ReplyDeleteToday moose isnt here but I am starting to construct the powerpoint with the information I have. I will have moose email me the rest of his information to me over the weekend so i can finish the project for monday so we can proofread it in class.
ReplyDeleteLike Matt said its Friday finally and i'm finishing up the paper right now.The weekends here and its been a really long week.
ReplyDeleteThe project is about finished. I finished my part of the project on Thursday because of the Freshman walk Friday. I know My group members are finsihing up the slideshow by adding pictures to support their ideas
ReplyDeleteSo everything is done for the the project now we even have extra time to figure out what to mention and in what order should we present the following information to the class.
ReplyDeleteMy group is adding to the visual component of the presentation, which at this point looks like the addition of actual controversial comics from the 1950s. This period of time seems rife with overreaction to these stories.
ReplyDeleteAfter further examination of controversial comics it seems that they were the explicit media of their day. And today just as then there are concerned parents and conservative groups that are worrying about he content of this media.
ReplyDeleteAnother vital part of my groups presentation is the allegations of Fredric Wertham. He truly believed that comics were the source of all kinds of degenerate behavior among the youth. His reaction to comics seems to be similar to the response of media watchdog groups today.
ReplyDeleteOur group did presentations recently and our presentation did not go as we hoped. Although it wasn't as good as a presentation as we planned we did get constructive critism which should help us in the near future. I've learned the only way to get good at something like presentations is to practice.
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