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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
(1988) Eagle Award
(1991) World Fantasy Award
(1991-1997) Eisner Award
(2004) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario
(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
(1982) Eagle Award
(1990) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize
Themes: identity, tolerance, contemporary realism, transition, democratic society
OC: alcohol, corrupt authority, crime, drugs, foul language, intolerance, murder, racism, religion, smoking, violence, war
(1986) Eagle Award
(1987) Kirby Award
(1988) Eisner Award, Haxtur Award, Hugo Award
(1989) Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize
(1992) Urhunden Prize
• 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
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
• 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
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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(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
• 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
• 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)
• 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