ose clearly favours her father over her mother

center of attention

he paragraphs are brief and sometimes written in all caps, often structured like text messages between close friends.

nterplay between image and text positions Rose and Windy quite firmly on the other side of an adulthood that still governs the world around them

Harriet the Spy

real stories and real people to their readers

Blake's question "did he who made the Lamb, make thee" gains a new significance.

"form networks of interrelations from panel to panel, panel to page, and page to page and thus participate in a symbolic order governed by laws of substitution and association (metaphor and metonymy)

. Each page is a reflection both of layout and content" (V;

order and the terror that comes with this order actually breaks the order of the poem

"fearful symmetry

reflection, symmetry and difference serves as the archetype for the disconcordant visionary parallax between the two.

experimentation with panel and narrative conventions

Blake has the imagination

religious saints on hovercrafts

Workers produce labor, are alienated from that labor through the mediating function of capital, and are then forced to buy the very product of their own labor.

This is because perversion, rebellion and revolution are easily incorporated into global capitalism and sacrifice progressive politics for a trademarked identity

mutating its character almost beyond recognition

Moore turns to Blake in the wake of the elastic marketplace of global capitalism, believing that the poet's dedication to individual vision can help him reestablish a connection to a self underneath the commodified dissemination of his celebrity around the globe.

In fact, because of its connection to the image of Jon's accident, the sense of inevitability inherent in Jon's fate is applied to this moment &ndash from the beginning of the book, as the repetitive imagery has shown the audience, this moment, this explosion, has been inevitable

story's focus shifts to the impending global threat

does not, in itself, signify a particularly traumatic moment.

"Traumatic events call into question basic human relationships. They breach the attachments of family, friendship, love, and community. They shatter the construction of the self that is formed and sustained in relation to others. They undermine the belief systems that give meaning to human experience"

tendency to think about pieces instead of people.

people relive the event as though it were continually recurring in the present

two moments condensed and symbolized in one picture

no beginning, no ending, no before, no during and no after

traumatic experiences do not alter the victims physically to the point that they are no longer members of the human race, they often cause detachment from society

he is Superman, a radioactive threat, or God

dispersed or fragmented narrative voice

have a clearer idea of the ways these traumatic experiences can affect people.

medium provides the message of trauma. The authors utilize imagery to emphasize the theme: Woven together into a complex structure, illustrations of personal traumatic experiences and national traumatic events represent the growing fear, the helplessness, and the isolation that mankind can experience during and after a traumatic event

superheroes into a real world setting, making them face "scenarios that mirror the [world's] current political and social problems

bear snaps a photo of himself—a comic transcription of Lacan's formulation of "myself seeing myself."

"perspectives " on a single event, with the axes of perception being aligned with the three nephews—down on the whirlpool, up under the bridge, and behind the rock at the same time.

American comic strips.

Lacanian process of "suture," an intersection of the symbolic and the imaginary performed through the act of reading;

imaginary, symbolic, and real

The fragmented comic page makes visible what is usually elided in paintings and drawings that use an undivided image to illustrate a verbal text

physically homogeneous

an interruption usually accompanied by anxiety.

Suspecting a plot, he sets out in search of his beloved.

new leaf.

On reaching home, Mr. Oldbuck finds a favorable letter from his layde-love.

It soon recovers its flesh.

Being attacked by robbers, he hides himself and his horse behind a tree.

Duel between Mr. Oldbuck and his rival.

Mr. Oldbuck wishes to return home, but can't.

In his haste to reach his-ladye-love, he drags the beam after him.

Looking from the window, Mr. Oldbuck espies his ladye-love.

Mr. Oldbuck in love.

The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck.

web-based graphic narrative.

Eisner, Will. A Contract with God. W. W. Norton & Company, 1978. Print.

develop skill in the critical analysis of visual texts and