LESSON 4 - FLIPPED LESSON RESOURCE
Graphic Novels
Graphic novels, comic books, picture books, and digital media are all forms of visual literature that we can interact with visually.
This allows for the reader to visualise even more than simply reading sentences on a page, and allows the author to portray exactly the vision of the story they are creating.
On this learning platform we will mainly focussing on graphic novels but feel free to discuss any other forms of visual literature that you might be interested in using for your final assessment.
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What literary devices do Graphic Novels use?
Visual literary devices include:
Colour, tones, and shades.
Lighting and shadows.
Angles, lines, and direction.
Dialogue and blank space.
This allows for the reader to visualise the authors and the illustrators' ideas that they were trying to convey through visual cues and imagery.
The narrator has always been in the shadow of his older, more successful and well-liked brother. When a mysterious creature begins terrorizing their village and killing its livestock, the two volunteer to venture out into the woods and kill it. The beast is slain, but only the younger brother comes back.
In the small Midwestern town of Howlett, navigating high school is tough enough. When a group of friends are inexplicably turned into weredogs, they have to learn to adapt to their new powers. This leads to an unlikely friendship with loner Mara, a werewolf whose father mysteriously vanished. As they team up to solve the disappearance, friendships are tested, secrets are revealed, and the Werewoofs’ have to prove themselves in an explosive showdown against a pack of werewolves and their vicious alpha.
In 2014, Australian comic artist Sutu completed an artist in residence program at the Ilulissat Kunstmuseum in Greenland. During this time he collaborated with the Zeeb Berthelsen family and other community members to create a unique story in response to growing concerns about industrial growth in the arctic, the receding ice caps and the future of their young people.
Fill out the question boxes at the end of the page by analysing the comic below:
An original comic
Created by local Australian artist
- Emma_Helana_Art
If considering this format for your creative piece, observe how the artist has captured photos of the progress made and the stages of her creative process.