Teaching Between the Frames: Making Comics in School: Glossary

~Acknowledgements~

Many people supported the development of new knowledge, which I originally called a grammar of comics.

Certain elements do function as such a grammar. Frames and gutters separate visual events into phrases and sentences. While the sequence of frames develops a narrative.

Dr. Lara Lackey and Dr. Marjorie Cohee-Manifold of Indiana University guided me in this research. My research methods were influenced and critiqued by Dr. Lackey the director of my dissertation while Dr. Manifold, with her work on fan culture shaped the initial inquiry.

This work would not be possible without The Comic Book Project, which supports the development of language arts skills through the creation of comic books by students.

Scott McCloud's work Understanding Comics provides the foundation for this inquiry. Understanding Comics is a pedagogical work where McCloud, rendered as a character in his own comic addresses the reader directly. Standing to one side of the page or panel he shows us the underlying structure of comics and how they function as a medium of communication.

Comics are the invisible art (McCloud, 1994), consequently teachers and students may miss the finer points of story telling and lose the reader in the space between each panel.

Thus I seek to add to knowledge presented in Understanding Comics by through the creation of Doc Mox's Comic Book Primer.

Teaching Between the Frames: Making Comics in School

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