Gimme Your Comics!
Submitted by Boydegg on March 6, 2006 - 11:22
Dear Comixpedia folk,
I'm trying to get a website off the ground - aimed at students and teachers of English as a second language. If you haven't seen it, it's at grammarmancomic.com.
So here I am scrounging ... Would you let me use a page or three of your comic on my site? The idea would be - I make a lesson plan and worksheets based on your comic strip (focusing on grammar, slang, spelling, punctuation, dialogue or whatever), then teachers use it in the classroom, or students use it to improve their English.
But what would I get out of it? (I hear you cry) Well ... I'd link the resource back to your homepage, and put your URL on all the worksheets and other materials. So a teacher prints it off, makes 30 or so copies and gives them to the students, hopefully some of those students dig your work and go to check out your site. My site's been online since December, and already my existing teaching materials have been downloaded several hundred times each - so it's hopefully a good chance to boost your readership and reach new audiences.
If you'd like to have a go, email me: Thanks for reading this far.
Brian
ps - since the materials might be used with kids or teens, they'd have to be stirps with no swearing, nudity, drugs-seen-to-be-fun etc (though excessive bloodshed seems to be acceptable for all ages these days)
- Array
by captain - 02/24/2006 - 13:43
Brian,
Sure you can use my comic....any pages you like, just click thru the archive and I believe you will find some things you can use.
The story takes place in the late 30's, uses some slang - not heavy like a Bogart movie, but some. Is kid friendly (so far) and is like an old action adventure strip from the time period.
www.captainspectre.com
is the address.
I used to teach Jr. High art also.
by Fabricari - 02/24/2006 - 13:46
Dang. Since we gots swears in every other panel, I guess my comic is out.
Steve "Fabricari" Harrison
Re: Gimme your comics!
by Uncle Ghastly - 02/25/2006 - 12:16
ps - since the materials might be used with kids or teens, they'd have to be stirps with no swearing, nudity, drugs-seen-to-be-fun etc (though excessive bloodshed seems to be acceptable for all ages these days) What!? Are you saying you'd prefer it if kids learned about tentacle rape on the streets? And you call yourself an educator!
by Katie Sekelsky - 02/25/2006 - 12:24
If any of what you're doing involves English literature, you can feel free to check out/use pages from my old comic, The Epilogue at http://epilogue.toefur.com (there's a few parts with some minor swear words I think, but not much, and quite a few involving drinking).
-reva-
http://www.thinksynch.com
Re: Gimme your comics!
by Fabricari - 02/25/2006 - 13:42
What!? Are you saying you'd prefer it if kids learned about tentacle rape on the streets? And you call yourself an educator! Maybe today's American Kids aren't ready for tentacle wape, er rape, but If your kid hasn't learned about Chibi Hammer Gang Bang by the time they get into highschool, the'll totally miss the allegories referred to in James Joyces, Portrait of the Artist as a Young man. I tell ya.
Steve "Fabricari" Harrison
by jdalton - 02/26/2006 - 15:27
I don't know if my comic would be any good for ESL, the language sometimes gets a bit dense, but you're certainly welcome to take a look and borrow a page or two. I fully support the right of teachers to swipe things from the internet. Since I've tried to slip a few references to Southeast Asia into the story it might be fun to actually use it there.
NOTE: I used the "B-word" once, but I promise it was necessary in context.
Jonathon Dalton
A Mad Tea-Party
Re: Gimme your comics!
by spargs - 02/27/2006 - 07:41
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by Thatguy - 02/28/2006 - 18:44
You're welcome to use Thatguy - I'm not involved in ESL, but I am an English major. ;) I can also recommend getting in touch with Dutch of School Spirit. S.S. is a totally clean comic with a lot of school-based plots. (Dutch is, himself, a gradeschool teacher in Australia.)
by Boydegg - 03/01/2006 - 18:29
Sirs - I salute you all!
I don't think I've ever had such a positive response anywhere else on the entire internet. And there was me all ready for a hail of cynical scoffs!
I'm in the final stages of adapting 'Captain Spectre' for a lesson plan. Have you seen it? Beautiful art. Everywhere you look on Comixpedia there are labours of love - comics are nearly always a labour of love. But Tom Floyd has given every ounce of himself to the Captain Spectre strip. If you haven't seen it yet, take a look.
I will make time to look at the other strips listed as soon as possible.
Thanks
Brian
Sure, you can use mine. We
by Sean C - 03/28/2006 - 13:38
Sure, you can use mine. We actually try to avoid overusing slang, so that might be a bonus. Since it's really only PG, it is work-safe.
Don't hesitate to procrastinate.
See my stuff at http://www.cuteninjagirls.com
Don't hesitate to procrastinate. My brand new comic: http://cain.bombsheltercomics.com
Re: Gimme Your Comics!
by m_estrugo - 03/22/2006 - 01:10
I'd offer my comic... but, since English is already my second langauage, I'm not very sure of the validity of my English.
Besides, I've got a character who says 'dook!' all the time and I don't know how that would be translated. Or if that could be translated at all!
Aw. Thatguy slipped a word
by Dutch! - 03/22/2006 - 00:18
Aw. Thatguy slipped a word in for me. What a sport!
Yeah, go right ahead and use whatever you think is appropriate from School Spirit (www.schoolspiritcomic.com). I'm a primary school teacher myself (grade three and four) and I've used my own strips from time to time as a basis for writing and reading. Not to mention using the characters from time to time as well.
Go for it if there's anything that assists you. It's in Australian, not English though.
Cheers.
Sure
by Graz73 - 03/09/2006 - 10:14
Feel free to use a few pages of my comic too...
www.cy-boar.com
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Sure, you can use some
by mckenzee - 03/08/2006 - 19:50
Sure, you can use some Sinister Bedfellows.
I have an anthology of short stories based on the strips coming out soon, if you think some of the stories would be useful also.
When you link, please link to SinisterBedfellows.com instead of the comicgenesis address.
"There is a cryptic ingredient in many of our modern improvements - We are awed and pleased without knowing quite what we are enjoying" - E. B. White 1939
Grammar Jokes
by pclips - 03/06/2006 - 13:29
I actually try to do a grammar joke at least every 100 strips. I can
make hi-res versions of the following strips available to you:
Dentist
Boy Reading
Saloon
Recipe Book
Witness Stand
Contains one potentially inappropriate word:
Writing Critique
...and here's an entirely inappropriate one you might appreciate,
nonetheless: Hot Air Balloon
As you can see, my strip is not meant to be kid safe. But you would be
the fourth person to use my strip in teaching materials.
For the record, the others did pay me for that, but hey...whatever.
Education is a good thing.
Rob Balder
PartiallyClips - I suffer for my clip art.
Certainly take mine.
by solo4357 - 03/06/2006 - 12:05
My comic is about forum dwellers so language skills will be poked fun at as time goes on. I'd be please to see it featured. http://www.krewmembers.com
http://www.krewmembers.com Krewmembers the comic!
Brad Guigar Had a Similar Effort About a Year or So Ago
by Xaviar Xerexes - 03/06/2006 - 12:02
This is a great idea and hopefully we can get some more folks to contact you with ideas and their webcomics.
You might also email/talk to Brad Guigar who had a similar effort to help teachers use webcomics in education. I think Brad had a site on it but I can't find it off of his current website though.
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