The other day, when the class divided themselves into groups to talk about Fun Home, my group seemed to go on tangents about the novel, not really sticking to the questions. However, those tangents allowed our group to talk about things that we probably wouldn’t be comfortable talking about if the entire class was there. I mean sure, we ended… Read more →
Author: maggiemcmaken2017
Golden Age versus Modern Day: A theory of the American Spirit
In the beginning of the semester, I wrote a blog post about how Stephan Pastis, the creator of Pearls Before Swine, and how he is a modern cartoonist using old techniques to write is comics. The other day I was reading one of his Pearls Before Swine strips and was wondering “why isn’t he more famous?” Then it actually hit… Read more →
Writing a Reflection on Writing a Comic
When given the task of making a Web Comic was not only terrifying for the fact that we had to create something, but that we had to create something with a group a people. Thankfully, my like what Carly said, we were able to come together and figure out what we wanted to write about at the last second. Even… Read more →
The Girl On Fire! Just Not In A Graphic Novel
In 2012, the world was taken back when the novel, The Hunger Games, by Suzanna Collins, was adapted into a box office hit. Since then, the world has been wanting more and more ‘Hunger Games’ in various forms. From parodies, to customs, to more post-apocalyptic novels and movies, the world just could not get enough of it all. Or could… Read more →
Not Your Typical Lesson: A Reflection of What It Is
Much like what Carly mentioned in her reflection, What It Is has been a lesson that makes taking a 3 o’clock class worth it. This class is at the time that I usually takes naps so my body struggles to stay awake through the class, but What It Is makes it easy to stay awake. I find that this kind… Read more →
Who’s Banning the Watchmen? : Teaching Watchmen in High Schools
Banned books are commonly discussed in schools across America in many different ways. Some schools read ‘banned’ books and discuss the controversy surrounding that book, and other schools discuss the next book they want to ban. However, when one talks about banned books, one probably does not think about a ban on graphic novels being taught. At least in my… Read more →
Reflection: The Innocence of Willie
In the last chapter of A Contract with God, the pages that I keep going back to as pages 179 and 180. In pages 179, Willie’s mom tells him that he is the ‘man of the house’ now and all Willie is doing is looking down at the street. On page 180, however, you see him staring off into the… Read more →
The Old Becoming New Again – Stephan Pastis using old techniques for new jokes
In a generation that is fascinated by Marvel and DC comics being made into movies, there is an art that is coming out of the dark and it is in the form of a 3-4 panel comic strip in the daily newspapers. This satire comic has been criticized as being vulgar, cynical and being down right rude, but it is looking as though it is picking… Read more →