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The Sandman

Themes: identity, freedom and oppression, transition to adulthood, horror in the adult world

OC: alcohol, brutality, Communism, corrupt authority, drugs, fascism, foul language, intolerance, murder, religion, sexuality, violence, war

Themes: identity, mythology, connectivity of stories, freedom and responsibility, adult obligation

OC: alcohol, brutality, child abuse, crime, drugs, foul language, homosexuality, intolerance, kidnapping, murder, nudity, psychosis, rape, religion, sex, smoking, torture, violence, witchcraft

by Neil Gaiman (1991-7)

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"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."

Persepolis

V For Vendetta

by Marjane Satrapi (2003-4)

(1988) Eagle Award

(1991) World Fantasy Award

(1991-1997) Eisner Award

(2004) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario

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by Alan Moore (1988)

"The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture.. that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules."

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"There is no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. And ideas are bulletproof."

(2001-2, 2005) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize

Themes: identity, freedom and oppression, justice, transition to adulthood, horror in the adult world, democratic society

OC: alcohol, anarchy, brutality, corrupt authority, fascism, foul language, genocide, intolerance, murder, molestation, nudity, prostitution, racism, rape, religion, smoking, terrorism, torture, vigilantism, violence

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(1982) Eagle Award

(1990) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize

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Themes: identity, tolerance, contemporary realism, transition, democratic society

OC: alcohol, corrupt authority, crime, drugs, foul language, intolerance, murder, racism, religion, smoking, violence, war

Watchmen

by Alan Moore (1986)

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"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

-Nietzsche

The Neighborhood: Dropsie Avenue

by Will Eisner (1995)

(1986) Eagle Award

(1987) Kirby Award

(1988) Eisner Award, Haxtur Award, Hugo Award

(1989) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize

(1992) Urhunden Prize

"Who can mark the point at which neighborhoods start to die?"

• An undisputed master and authority on American comics

• Namesake of the Eisner Award, highest American sequential art award

Themes: identity, justice, freedom and responsibility, transgressions of adults, horror in the adult world, democratic society

OC: alcohol, animal abuse, brutality, child abuse, crime, corrupt authority, drugs, foul language, intolerance, murder, nudity, psychosis, rape, sex, smoking, vigilantism, violence, war

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Themes: identity, freedom and oppression, human resilience and ruthlessness, horror in the adult world

OC: brutality, fascism, foul language, genocide, intolerance, murder, nudity, racism, religion, smoking, suicide, violence, war

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Conclusion

Maus

by Art Speigelman

(1986-91)

"We came here to the concentration camp of Auschwitz. And we knew that from here we will not come out anymore."

• Older teens are disenfranchised from content relevant to their experience that adults hope to shield them from (Alsup, 2003)

• Protecting intellectual freedom and providing high quality works of literature in a variety of formats empowers YA learners (Bucher & Manning, 2007)

• Have a Plan: Mosher, A. M. (2010, October). Challenging self-censorship: A 21st-century vision for an ethical future. Library Student Journal.

(1988, 1993) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize, Urhunden Prize

(1990) Max & Moritz Prizes

(1992) Eisner Award, Harvey Award, Pulitzer Prize

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Themes: identity, transgressions of adults, transition to adulthood, sexual self-realization

OC: adultery, cross-dressing, foul language, homosexuality, masturbation, nudity, sex, suicide

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Fun Home

by Alison Bechdel (2006)

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"There's no proof, actually, that my father killed himself. No one knew it wasn't an accident."

(2006) National Book Critics Circle Finalist

(2007) Eisner Award, GLAAD Media Award, Lambda Literary Award, Publishing Triangle-Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award, Stonewall Book Award,

Themes: capturing adult power, consumerism, surrendered freedom, value of human life, democratic society

OC: alcohol, brutality, corrupt authority, foul language, murder, scant nudity, sex, smoking, vigilantism, violence, war

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Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again

by Frank Miller (2001)

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"I was sentimental, back when I was old."

  • Long awaited sequel to acclaimed "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"
  • Equally reviled and regarded as the most radical Supers genre comic of all time

YA impact: GN and Adult Lit

• GN put a human face on content, readers can explicitly see themselves and others in the work (McCloud, 2003)

• GN bridge readership to other Adult Lit (Schwarz, 2002)

• YA readers are attracted to genre, well-crafted stories, and complex elements in adult lit (Carter, 2003)- this includes GN

• GN in the SL allows YA readers to exercise inquiry and decode mature concepts within a literary context (Schwarz, 2006)

Themes in Exemplary Adult GN: identity, decoding maturity and passage into adulthood, personal and intellectual freedom, justice and responsibilities in a democratic society

GN in learning & teaching

• Dual encoding contextualized within literature better matches the 21st-C world (Versaci, 2001)

• Supports culturally responsive instruction, literary and historical analysis (Schwarz, 2002)

• Visual permanence is student-centered and self-pacing, applicable to any curriculum (Yang, 2002)

• Increased literacy amongst resistant readers, ESOL learners, student with disabilities (Rudiger & Schleisman, 2007)

• Format provides opportunity to understand how visual elements support literary elements (McCloud, 2006)

Self-censorship in the SL

(Whalen, 2009)

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Censorship in the 1950's

• Wertham campaign alleging link between comics and juvenile delinquency

• Senate Judiciary Committee critical of objectionable content in sequential art

• Establishment of the self-censoring Comics Code Authority

• Objectionable Content [OC]: nudity, sex, drugs, crime, foul language, degenerate behavior, homosexuality, negative portrayal of authority, brutality, violence

Accessing the Cryptographic

Adult Graphic Novels and Intellectual Freedom in the High School Library

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