Hero worksheet template
Superhero Profile Worksheet (No longer available)
Who’s that hero slides with sections to fill in
Comic slides to fill in (No longer available)
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See: comic-book images page (No longer available)
Links
- Good magazines for kids with comics, stories and activites https://www.theschoolrun.com/best-educational-magazines-for-children
- I can’t find a good collection of the orignal episodes of X-men (they are on Disney+ if you have it) but there is a collection of a version where there are younger heroes and some go to highschool, which might be good X-men Evolution – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhOnau-tupQMX1uvJYnYM0Z2ZbE33_AX
- DC Kids has a big selection of videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyu8StPfZWapR6rfW_JgqcA) and downloads, games and comics https://www.dckids.com/
Coming of age comics
This article recommends some award winning graphic novels around identity, covering some difficult topics through narratives putting them in the context to give a broader picture.
‘Quick and Easy’ guides to relationships
The publisher Oni Press have released a series of graphic novels that cover some key topics:
- Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up
- A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent
- A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
- Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
- A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability
STEM
‘A Manga Guide to’ series from No Starch Press are excellent from GCSE level and up, from introduction to databases to molecular biology.
Graphic Novels around religion
Passover story : New Haggadah, in Hebrew and English
TNIV Manga Bible covers a selection of key stories
https://www.eden.co.uk/the-manga-bible-raw/
A selection around Muslim characters
There are many Sikh comics this series is around Guru Nanak
https://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikh-comics-releases-guru-nanak-graphic-novels
History retold by graphic novels
Peterloo
https://ageofrevolution.org/the-peterloo-graphic-novel-available-free-to-schools-now/
Graphic adaption of Anne Frank’s diary
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35794821-anne-frank-s-diary
Story of the silent-film actor Lon Chaney https://penguinrandomhousesecondaryeducation.com/book/?isbn=9781524747435
Persepolis (graphic novel later made into an animated film)
Politics and philosophy visualised
The communist manifesto
https://www.selfmadehero.com/books/the-communist-manifesto
The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy
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Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/jan/05/comics.politics
Maus
‘The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust’ – Wall Street Journal
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-complete-maus/art-spiegelman/9780141014081
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force (coming soon)
https://www.ocasiocomic.com/#/
American Politics: A Graphic History (Introducing…)
Learning about differences
A list of books with autistic characters
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/136166.Autism_in_Graphic_Novels_Comics
Unsorted list of links that will be sorted:
https://qz.com/1777533/reading-comic-books-can-improve-brain-health/
http://www.comicbookgrrrl.com/2012/10/01/kids-read-comics/
http://theawkwardyeti.com/chapter/heart-and-brain-2/
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/comic-books/
https://dekkocomics.com/buy/comics
http://cbldf.org/adding-graphic-novels/
https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2014/07/best-science-themed-comics-read
http://cbldf.org/using-graphic-novels/
http://cbldf.org/librarian-tools/
https://comicmath.com/comics/ – known
https://www.cartoonkate.co.uk/threads-the-calais-cartoon/
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9173457/hispanic-latino-comic
http://www.kidjutsu.com/content/about-us
http://www.thecomicstrips.com/subject/The-Math-Comic-Strips.php
https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=13-great-webcomics-for-kids-and-teens
Not a comic
These aren’t comics but they are a good selection of books about important topics, labelled with the appropriate age ranges and the following filters:
- Ability, Disability & Ableism
- Bias, Discrimination & Hate
- Bullying Awareness & Prevention
- Gender & Sexism
- Genocide & Holocaust
- Jewish Culture & Anti-Semitism
- LGBTQ People & Homophobia/Heterosexism
- People, Identity & Culture
- Race & Racism
- Religion & Religious Bigotry
- Social Justice
Kate Nicolson 