Graphic Narratives as Teaching Tools

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.03.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Background
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Notes

We Wear the Mask: Graphic Narratives and Identity

Landon Walker

Published September 2025

Tools for this Unit:

Notes

  1. Lecoq, Jacques, Jean-Gabriel Carasso, Jean-Claude Lallias, and David Bradby. The Moving Body. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
  2. https://literacytrust.org.uk/research-services/research-reports/children-and-young-peoples-engagement-with-comics-in-2023/
  3. Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask,” in Lyrics of Lowly Life (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1896), 90–91.
  4. McCloud, Scott. Understanding comics: Writing and art. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994.
  5. Eisner, Will. Comics and sequential art: Principles and practice of the world’s most popular art form, expanded to include print and digital. Tamarac FL US: Poorhouse Press, 1985.
  6. Heide, Markus. “From Zorro to Jennifer Lopez: US-Latino History and Film for the EFL-Classroom.” American Studies Journal 51 (2008). Web. 15 Jul. 2025. DOI 10.18422/51-04.
  7. Booker, M. Keith (2010). Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels, Volume 2. Greenwood Press. p. 493. ISBN 9780313357466.
  8. Daniels, Les, Chip Kidd, and Bob Kane. Batman: The Life and Times of the Dark Knight: The complete history. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004.
  9. Harp, Mia, "Unmasking The Shadows of Gotham: A Study of Identity in The Batman (2022)" (2025). JSU Student Symposium 2025. 21.
  10. Goulart, Ron (2000). Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History (1st American ed.). Portland, Oregon: Collectors Press.
  11. Prefore, Charles. “Marvel's X-Men Comics Were Saved By One Man.” Screen Rant, October 12, 2020. https://screenrant.com/marvel-xmen-comics-saved-chris-claremont/.
  12. Parks, Gregory S. and Hughey, Matthew W. (2017) ""A Choice of Weapons": The X-Men and the Metaphor for Approaches to Racial Equality," Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 92: Iss. 5, Article 1.
  13. Eno, Vincent (Richard Norris); Csawza, El (May–June 1988). "Vincent Eno and El Csawza Meet Comics Megastar Alan Moore"
  14. “All-Time 100 Novels.” Time. Accessed July 15, 2025. https://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/all/.
  15. Moore, Alan, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins. Watchmen. Burbank, CA: DC Comics, 1986.
  16. Sit, Ingrid. “Rorschach’s Hypocrisy: The Moral Ambiguity of Watchmen’s Black and White Antihero.” Arts One Student Journal, University of British Columbia. Accessed July 15, 2025.
  17. Merrill, Michael S. “MASKS, METAPHOR AND TRANSFORMATION: THE COMMUNICATION OF BELIEF IN RITUAL PERFORMANCE.” Journal of Ritual Studies 18, no. 1 (2004): 16–33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44368668.
  18. African Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
  19. African Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
  20. Diane M. Quinn and Valerie A. Earnshaw, “Concealable Stigmatized Identities and Psychological Well‑Being,” Social and Personality Psychology Compass 7, no. 1 (2013): 40–51, 

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