The slides identify features of cartoon strips and different ways for students to design their own historical strips using storification and comic strip prototypes (e.g. information giving vs. humor)
Teaching the use of Cartoon Strips in the history classroom (Slides for students)
1. • Features of comic strips
• Character and perspective
• Cartoon strips as stories
• Types of cartoon strips
• Punchlines
• Facial expressions and cartoons
• Steps in doing cartoon strips
2. Features of a comic strip
Sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels
to display brief humor or form a narrative
Some characteristics include:
1. Serialization. E.g. 1,2,3,4
2. Text in balloons
3. Captions
6. Stories
Main characteristics of history-based comic strips
include
Background: E.g. Piracy in the Caribbean. Attack ship
Main Character: E.g. Blackbeard
Problem: E.g. Blackbeard worked at being bad.
Resolution: E.g. Give example of him being bad.
Closure: E.g. Cut off fingers of someone for
psychological impact. Play mind games with victims
Perspective of cartoonist: (E.g. First person or 3rd
person narrative): E.g. Historian telling story from 3rd
person.
Pick out an interesting snippet of history that you find
interesting
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11. Types of cartoon strips
Humorous with punchline
Information giving/ Story line
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14. Thinking of punchlines
Kinds of punchlines:
1. The Hidden Element: The reader can see what the character
can’t. (Hock Lee Bus Riots/ NS Riots)
2. The Reversal: Character says something unexpected. (The
Merger cartoon)
3. The Understatement or Underreaction
4. The Exaggeration or Overreaction
5. Misunderstandings of words and intentions
6. Illogical consequences (Reader or character did not expect
something to happen) or the logical consequence
Source: http://ersby.blogspot.sg/2013/01/a-list-of-punchlines.html
22. Thinking about your cartoon strip
Main character: name,
race, occupation,
leisure
Background / Setting
Problem
Resolution
Any other characters?
23. Thinking of cartoon facial
expressions and actions
Happiness: Smile with
wide eyes
Sadness: Frown with
small eyes
Anger: Frown with
slanted eyes and red face
Mischief: Grin and
slanted eyes
Shock: Gaping mouth,
wide eyes and several
lines near characters’
forehead
24. Use of digital cartoons
Clothes changes to show time change
Double images and setting to show movement