2024 Resources

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My Visual Story Course Documents

(Other formats available by request.)

• • My Visual Story Fall 2024 Syllabus ( PDF File)
  • My Visual Story Fall 2024 Scoring Achievement Guidelines ( PDF File)
  • My Visual Story Comic Project Guidelines 2024 ( PDF File)
  • My Visual Story Student Inventory ( PDF File)
  • Comic Book Project Checklist ( PDF File)
  • Name Your Achievement My Visual Story Fall 2024 – ( PDF File)
  • Abstract/Introduction and YouTube Showcase Guidelines – ( PDF File)
  • JSMA (UO Museum of Art) Visiting Guidelines ( PDF File)

Creative and Discussion Journal Pages:

• • My Visual Story Creative Journal One: Oct 1st/Oct 8th  ( PDF File)
  • My Visual Story Creative Journal Two: Oct 22nd/Oct 29th  ( PDF File)
  • My Visual Story Creative Journal Three: November 19th  ( PDF File)

My Visual Story Course Presentations

• Coming soon!

University of Oregon Resources

• UO First-Year Programs
• UO Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor
• UO Advising
• UO Accessible Education Center
• UO Counseling Services
• UO Tutoring and Academic Learning Ctr
• UO Common Reading
• Art Ducko
• UO “Get Involved” (events and student organizations)

UO Museum of Art

• Main UO Museum of Art site
• This year’s Calvin and Hobbes exhibition!  It’s (Still) A Magical World, Hobbes, Ol’ Buddy Selections of Original Art and Strips of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, 1985-1995
• Previous exhibitions featuring comics and cartoon work:
  • The Art of the News: Comics Journalism September 24, 2021 to January 16, 2022
  • Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics May 14, 2016 to July 10, 2016
  • GOOD GRIEF! A Selection from 50 Years of Original Art from Charles M. Schulz’s PEANUTS September 01, 2012 to December 30, 2012

Comic Book and Graphic Novel Resources

• Nice (though not totally complete of course!) list on Goodreads of the “Best Graphic Novels“
• Another nice (but not complete) list of “best” graphic novels from NPR News, Let’s Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels

Comics, Art, and Social Justice

• Comics Against Confederates: Black Lives Matter and the Battle for Graham, North Carolina
• Comics As “Bibles” for Civil Rights Struggles (ACLU)
• How to explain climate change? With comic books (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
• 4 Thought-Provoking Graphic Novels About the Environment (Sierra Club)
• Emotional Appeal: How Art Can Inspire Action on Climate Change (News from the Columbia Climate School)
• These 10 Artists Are Making Urgent Work about the Environment (Artsy)

zines Resources

• a zine “timeline” history compiled by Doug Blandy
• Great book on the history and culture of zines, Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture by Stephen Duncombe: