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Talking Comics with Stergios Botzakis
Stergios Botzakis, literacy scholar and expert on comics, is the co-author of Teach on Purpose!: Responsive Teaching for Student Success. He joined Jason DeHart for a great discussion covering their history with the comics medium, popular titles, and ...
Jason D. DeHart
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Comics is rapidly developing into a scholarly discipline in its own right, with a growing output of books, journals, and conferences. Two practitioners have been crucial influences. Eisner (1985) and McCloud (1993, 2000, 2006) have done much to aid the understanding of how comics create meaning.
Forceville, Charles +2 more
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Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné +3 more
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"I'm Not a Loser, I'm Just Drawn That Way:" Comix, Graphic Novels, and the Ethos of the Anti-Hero
American comics are, still today, often regarded as undemanding books starring a few well-known superheroes wearing masks and costumes. This is only partially true: comics are not necessarily about superheroes, the latter being starred, in fact, only in ...
Fiorenzo Iuliano
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Ally Sloper: The First Comics Superstar? [PDF]
This book is the result of the conference ‘Comics Scenarios: Cultural Analyses of a Picto-Graphical Medium’, organised by the Universities of Berlin and Viadrina, and held in Berlin in 2003.
Sabin, Roger
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Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda +2 more
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Materiality Comics is a digital comic produced with a combination of Bitstrips and Comic Life. It argues and visually demonstrates that materiality is an important topic for comics scholars to consider, and that through creating essays in comics form, comics scholars can develop insights about materiality that are unavailable when analyzing comics by ...
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Melatonin Levels in 89 Individuals With Smith Magenis Syndrome
ABSTRACT In patients with Smith–Magenis syndrome (SMS), an inverted circadian rhythm of melatonin (MT) contributes to the sleep disturbance. Standard treatment of sleep disturbance with MT often leads to extremely high daytime MT levels, resulting in even more sleep disorders. We therefore retrospectively evaluated the MT data of 89 SMS patients.
Wiebe Braam, Ann C. M. Smith
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ABSTRACT Arrhythmias affect approximately half of patients with Costello syndrome (CS, OMIM # 218040), with non‐reentrant atrial tachycardia being the most common. This case describes an infant with Costello syndrome carrying the pathogenic HRAS c.34G>A (p.G12S) variant who developed early‐onset, drug‐refractory multifocal atrial tachycardia (MAT ...
Vanina Taliercio +11 more
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Der unvoreingenommene Blick auf Comics - auf die Bildgeschichte in all ihren Erscheinungsformen - bietet die Chance, die Qualitäten dieser Kunstform zu erfahren. Man muss freilich - wie bei jeder anderen Darstellungsweise auch - das angemessene 'Lesen' lernen; freilich lernt es sich genussvoll durch wiederholende Übung und die Bereitschaft, sich offen ...
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