Comic strip library
(Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse, 2002) unpaginated - about 25% in.Ī man borrows a book to use as an umbrella. Paige and Nicole are kicked out of the library for noisiness. Jason topples a set of library shelves trying to retrieve a book.Īndi finds an overdue library book in Jason's closet. "īill Amend, Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose Peter is aware of what the internet can offer: "if I wanted to, I could access NASA photos.
Talk show topics include "Nymphomaniac librarians and the books that turn them on."īill Amend, At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts (Kansas City: Andrews (Bonus note in the Seven Years anthology: "The reference desk librarian knows everything!")īill Amend, The Return of the Lone Iguana (Kansas City: Andrews and Scott Adams, Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! (Kansas City:īob the dinosaur phones the library to ask how dinosaurs have eggs. Scott Adams, Seven Years of Highly Defective People (Kansas City: The librarian apparently knows all: "And you have something stuck in your teeth." He later goes on a blind date with the librarian.who has memorized all the books in the library.
#Comic strip library series
Part of a weeklong series of strips about Dilbert and a librarian. Scott Adams, Shave the Whales (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1992) 28-29.ĭogbert follows a logic chain to the ultimate conclusion: "if you keep reading, you'll go broke." In no particular order (well, alphabetical and chronological, with some attempt to keep related works together), we have:Īlways Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons (Several strips may be described together, if they form a series.) Any links from this page should be safe for work, but beyond that, click with caution.Ī brief description of the cartoon. If a book title is a hyperlink, it leads to the page for that book. Possibly paper, possibly Internet, possiblyīoth. A question mark indicates a guess.Īgain, if I can find one. Those issues are in the public consciousness.Library Cartoons : an annotated bibliography Library Cartoons: An annotated bibliography And when they see those issues in aĬomic strip, they aren't insulted or traumatized. I now take it on faith that at least one student in myĬlass has experienced those things. Heavy-handed way about suicide, sexual abuse, and battering, students Serious topics and, in their own way, give a 1990s sense of credibility 'Wizard of Id' both try, but they're a littleĪccording to Roberts, comics provide a light introduction to very "'Beetle Bailey' tries to be ethical and fails Then there are those that make the attempt and fall short. OtherĬomics have their moments, including "For Better or Worse," "Dilbert" is the reigningĬhamp, portraying the illogical side of the corporate world. Side," however, there isn't a leading moral vice in the comic With the demise of "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Practically a textbook on ethics in science, Campbell says. Meanwhile, Gary Larson's "The Far Side" was Many of the daily strips mirrored classic philosophical and ethical Of formal philosophical training because the ideas and the language of Roberts and Campbell both insist that Watterson had to h ave some kind "Calvin and Hobbes" came along to rule the 1980s. Newspapers debated whether to put the Garry Trudeau strip on the comic Popularized the trend of politicizing comics to the point where many Schulz used panels pitting Snoopy against the Red Baron to make socialĬommentary on the Vietnam War. The trend began in theġ960s, Campbell maintains, when "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles These days, but it wasn't always like that. It isn't unusual for comic strips to tackle societal issues Writtenīy Bill Watterson, it no longer is a daily series, but still can be Providing examples of classic philosophy and ethical dilemmas. He and Roberts say "Calvin and Hobbes," the comic stripĪbout a young boy and his stuffed tiger, is the all-time champion for "We can hold up theseĬomic strips and look at ourselves, while not taking ourselves too Kant's primary moral law, they might, for instance, use a panelįrom "For Better or Worse." "Getting beyond the humor ofĬomic strips takes philosophical skill and a great deal of They examine "Calvin and Hobbes." To introduce Immanuel Instead of pontificating about Kierkegaard's existentialism, University, Corvallis, have come up with an innovative way of reaching Professors Courtney Campbell and Lani Roberts of Oregon State Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard, and eyes begin to glaze. It's not easy to teach the MTV generation of college studentsĪbout the origins of modern philosophy and ethics.
Teaching ethics with comic strips." Retrieved from
1997 Society for the Advancement of Education 12 Oct.
#Comic strip library free
MLA style: "Teaching ethics with comic strips." The Free Library.