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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · 14h

We received our flu and COVID vaccines and in honor of the event I made a meme 🤣.

A still from the television series The Simpsons shows Homer Simpson gleefully looking at a "forbidden pink doughnut" held out for him by a befanged devil. The caption reads: me every time I take Tylenol, ooh forbidden acetaminophen.

Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · 5d

Sitting in the Civics for All panel at NYCC. So inspiring what has been accomplished (5 years, 5 million comics given) and what is on the near horizon, in particular the "Know Your Rights" comic that is super exciting.

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 14d

Dr. Eric White is a top scholar on the Gutenberg Bible, but in his free time, he's been studying one of baseball’s biggest mysteries – Who are the unnamed artists behind the classic Topps baseball cartoons?

thefanfiles.com/articles/topps-baseball-cards-cartoons-comics-cartoonists

Who drew the comics on the back of Topps baseball cards?

Princeton University’s Dr. Eric White has used a canny eye to solve a decades-long mystery

thefanfiles.com

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Sep 11

Me, in a hurry to get kids to school.
My across the way neighbor: how’s it going?
Me: good - rushing here…
Neighbor: continues to lob questions.
Me: gotta run.
Neighbor: how are you dealing with students & Ai?
Me (pausing to get a comic from my pocket): here - see page 3
(dashes off to bike)

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 17

I am absolutely heartbroken. @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social after our conversation I hope this additional news is not a tidings of the way things are headed: popcultureclassroom.org/2025/01/16/p...

Pop Culture Classroom Closes its Doors

Read the message from the Director of Education

popcultureclassroom.org

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 6

I'm sorry I forgot to give Alt-text for the image. If it works to do so here, it is a picture of 5 adults sitting at a long table looking out at an audience; Amie Wright, Kay Sohini, Walter Greason, Annie Evans, and Joe Schmidt. Because I'm not a good photographer Amie and Joe are blurry.

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 6

Fascinating what got close (super close) and what is nowhere near (books made of nickel, so weird!...although I guess ebooks....)

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · Jan 1

A List of Predictions Made in 1925 About 2025

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 5

@yidcaledon.bsky.social @kjknoblauch.bsky.social @bethpollard.bsky.social in this panel Amie raised the point that the AHA needs to create/have a graphic narratives/history working group. Couldn't agree more, obviously, but makes me feel even better about our goal for next year's AHA!

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 5

Amie, yes! We need a graphic history working group!

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 5

@hsglobalhistory.bsky.social , and yes, why don't we have a graphic history committee/group!

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 5

AHA panel 203. Excellent panel on the state of graphic history, esp. in teaching. I want more of these. AHA needs whole days devoted to not only using comics in the classroom, but comics as archives / historical records too!!

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jan 5

YASSSSS!!!

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Dec 11

I need to remember this page when I next teach comics!!!

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Dec 10

I posted this page from Unflattening in response to @reimenayee.com the other day, but I liked the alt-text so much, posting directly for what it’s worth… it is the heart of my thinking on comics…

a comics page from Unflattening. a 9-panel grid with a single scene across all panels - depicting the buddha sitting in a banyan tree - his face and right hand are in the center panel. A different animal is in each of the panels, some crossing panels to appear in more than one. The text is discussion of how comics exist as both individual panels but also the whole page all-at-once - in the way that this page is also read individual panels and also all-at-once. It talks about the linear nature of reading and the simultaneous nature of seeing - and again, how comics have both - a dual nature, but sequential and simultaneous. Which is also tree-like and rhizomatic (interconnected roots) - which is also what a Banyan tree is (a tree that walks...). There is a single line of dialogue spoken by the Buddha (one of only two in the whole book!) - in the captions talking about how the separate elements on the comics page are braiding together into the whole, the caption begins - "each element is thus:" and the buddha says "one with everything." (This is actually borrowed from the joke about what did the buddha order at the hot dog stand - "make me one with everything..." )

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Dec 3

I love studying the changes and fluctuations in the definitions of nation and nationalism ... And the subsequent theories about why... Tremendously boring to normal people 😂

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Dec 1

I bet the Germans do.

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Nov 28

Are you on a (multiple) starter pack? I think that has something to do with it.

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Nov 27

Have you been here this whole time? I'm vaguely overwhelmed by the inundation of people in the last two weeks.

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Nov 12

What a way to wake up, dozens of new follows. It's nice to see the exodus happening in earnest, guess I need to actually be in here a lot more!!

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Nov 10

I have been wondering much the same...he's not a young man either...

Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Oct 18

Great day yesterday at NYCC. Awesome panels put together by Joe Schmidt and the NYDOE ... I can't seem to find folks on here to tag. Also procured a new to me issue of True Comics I'm super excited about!

Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Sep 5

Rose City Comic Con this weekend w/ @yidcaledon.bsky.social @kjknoblauch.bsky.social and @bethpollard.bsky.social "Adaptations: A Panel on Comics Beyond the Panels" (5:15pm). And then the Comprehending Comics Conference (all virtual). The program/to register: www.historyincomics.org/conferences-...

Conferences, Workshops, and Events, History in Comics

Comprehending Comics: Exploring Methodologies and Approaches to Comic Studies in History and the Social Sciences You can find the Comprehending...

www.historyincomics.org

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Jun 29

World History Assoc. Conference in San Francisco... Women in World History. Merry Weisner-Hanks, Candice Goucher, and Linda Black.

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · May 29

Call for Artists: artworkstrenton.org/sequential/

Sequential - Artworks Trenton

An Art Show Celebrating Visual Storytelling October 22, 2024 – November 23, 2024 “Sequential” is an open call for comic book-themed and narrative-based artwork. Artists are encouraged to submit up to ...

artworkstrenton.org

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Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Apr 12

The competition was in the Sunday Times, May 17, 1925, Sydney, Australia. I found this on newspapers.com.

Dr. Maryanne Rhett @paisleylizard.bsky.social · Apr 12

Boys & Girls pages, or similarly titled, are fascinating! Here I've come across a competition to encourage kids between the ages of 16-19 and 11-16 (I think) to decipher Cook's writing in journal entries from his time on HMS Endeavor. Would love to know if any of those kids went on to be historians!

Image of article from May 1925 asking readers to decipher the handwriting of Captain Cook. Article is accompanied by two excerpts from Cook's journal during his time with the H.M.S. Endeavour.

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