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Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People                  
 Bridget Carrington & Jennifer Harding (eds.)
£20.00 ISBN 978 0 9546384 9 8

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The 2009 British IBBY UK/NCRCL MA conference, held at Roehampton University, highlighted not only the rich and varied literary output that is developing from the interaction between an increasing variety of graphic media, but also the continuing and fruitful collaboration amongst a wide-ranging group of children's literature enthusiasts, which results in this annual event. Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People explores the developing interest in the graphic medium from a variety of perspectives, in addition to considering developments in the range and content of comics and graphic novels now available to 
children and young people.

The richness of the genres is reflected in the diversity of articles. These include contributions from the academic Mel Gibson, the graphic-novel author Marcia Williams, and the publisher and comic enthusiast David Fickling, as well as workshop participants: authors, educators, illustrators and scholars. The groundbreaking work of Raymond Briggs in promoting and extending the graphic genre is rightly celebrated in the article by Janet Evans.

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Contents

Introduction                                                                                          
Bridget Carrington


Raymond Briggs: Controversially Blurring the Boundaries among Comics, Graphic Novels, Picture Books and Illustrated Books                                            
Janet Evans


Changing Perceptions of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels in Britain   
Mel Gibson


The Short but Continuing Life of The DFC                                                
David Fickling


Out of the Box: The Challenges and Delights of Creating Comic Strips for Children
Marcia Williams


‘Remember Me’: An Afrocentric Reading of Landowne and Horton’s Pitch Black     
Kimberly Black


Graphic Novels in the Classroom: Affordances for Using Graphic Novels to Teach High-School History                                                                                       Bill Boerman-Cornell


Two Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Irene N. Watts and Kathryn E. Shoemaker’s Good-Bye Marianne                                          
Rebecca R. Butler


Copulating, Coming Out and Comics: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag                                                                                                            Erica Gillingham


Is Henty’s History Lost in Graphic Translation? Won by the Sword in 45 pages       
Rachel Johnson


Reading between the Lines: The Subversion of Authority in Two Graphic Novels for Young Adults                                                                                        
Ariel Kahn


Sequences of Frames by Young Creators: The Impact of Comics in Children’s Artistic Development                                                                                          Vasiliki Labitsi


Britain’s Comics Explosion                                                                    
Sarah McIntyre


As Old as Clay                                                                                     
Daniel Moreira de Sousa Pinna


Richard Felton Outcault and the Yellow Kid                                             
Dora Oronti


The Power of Hybrids: Complex and Effective Visual Narratives that Resist Categorisation                                                                                      
Petros Panaou and Frixos Michaelides


‘To Entertain and Educate Young Minds’: Graphic Novels for Young People in Indian Publishing                                                                                             
 Malini Roy


Strangely Familiar: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and the Universalisation of the Immigrant Experience                                                                   
Lara Saguisag


Journeys in Time in Graphic Novels from Greece
Mariana Spanaki


Crossing a Graphic Text with Classics of Children’s Literature: Disney’s Manga Kingdom Hearts                                                                                     Stefania Tondo

 
Crossing Boundaries                                                                             
Emma Vieceli

 
Superhero Comics and Graphic Novels                                                   
Jessica Yates

 
Composing and Performing Masculinities of Reading Boys’ Comics c. 1930–1955       Hilary Young


Glossary of Terms Relating to Sequential Art                                           

 

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