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Graphic novel(s) for catholic high school
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I'm looking for a graphic novel (or series of) that would be appropriate for high school students in a catholic school. I immediately thought of Scott Pilgrim, since music, video games, etc. would be perfect for their interests, but the administration is pretty old school in their way of thinking. Based on a synopsis, he Scott has a gay room mate. Unfortunately, that wouldn't fly in a catholic school.
Any other ideas?
Please don't let this turn into an argument of whether or not catholic schools should be more accepting of homosexuality. This isn't the place, and the point is that it wouldn't be accepted. So, anything else?
Any other ideas?
Please don't let this turn into an argument of whether or not catholic schools should be more accepting of homosexuality. This isn't the place, and the point is that it wouldn't be accepted. So, anything else?
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You might want to try North World, by Lars Brown.
It can also be read online for free (but you should support the artist)
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These are both a little bit heavier and more topical than something like Scott Pilgrim, it depends on what you're looking to get out of the book.
Whedon's Astonishing X-Men is pretty good
Also the Kevin Smith run on Daredevil deals with a lot of Catholic issues in general and is pretty well written and doesn't step on a lot of toes with the way they tie it up, but it might be too much...
They'd also know how easy it is to get a lot of copies of the novel in question.
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But yes, Ultimate Spider-Man would be my first choice. As well as fitting the bill it is also consistently of a very high quality.
it has sex before marriage.
I mainly picked the Smith run just because it was a good collection. Upon recalling it though bullseye murders a few nuns, so that's probably a no-go.
I'll second Ultimate Spider man. It's extremely all ages appropriate, as if it still holds to that mythical comics code of authority that your school would probably approve of, while dealing with some GREAT high school issues wrapped around some amazing artwork.
In all seriousness, Mary Jane loves Spider-Man. Also Mini Marvels.
Here's a question that might help some of us -
What kind of literature is your school actively using in its English classes? Some examples?
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Marvel adventures too. Blue Beetle and Power Girl are also a couple of great choices, as is Batgirl, from the DC side of things.
If you head over to Graphic Violence there are a bunch of people who will happily tell you about great, high quality comic books with nothing which breaches the code of this catholic school.
Goodbye Chunky Rice would be much better thank Blankets for a Catholic school setting. Blankets might in fact get the OP fired (keep in mind, the book probably should be read by every Catholic high schooler out there), and Goodbye Chunky Rice has a lot of the same themes.
Seconding Maus. Since it won a Pulitzer you could use bring that up as a selling point.
In all seriousness, would your school be okay with Watchmen? It's kind of important and stuff, and it won awards and shit.
Probably not between the nudity, sex outside of marriage and violence.
On the other hand, it has won awards and is considered one of the top 100 novels of all time. I'd imagine the second would get it a pass in many schools.
It might help if we knew what the exact school policy was.
Suggestion wise: What about Hellboy? Sure, it's got demons, but the main demon is actively fighting evil in all it's forms. I haven't read much of it (working on it), but it seems pretty minimal on the sexual content.
I keed, I keed. Seriously, though, Maus seems like a great choice.
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How about some Japanese ones like Ghost in the Shell, Drifting Classroom, etc...
or you can always falls back to Archies.
As well, a lot of the good graphic novels, like many of the recommendations found here, are not going to be appropriate for your situation. If you're doing it just for a literacy thing, just do novels
Have you actually asked them if it would fly? Or did they give you a list of things "not allowed" or something?
Because if not, you should ask. Some Catholic high schools are fine with that stuff. Others, not.
But to offer some suggestions . . . The Abominable Charles Christopher (if he has any novelization out, not sure) or maybe Gunnerkrig Court (I know this one has a TPB out.)
Well, I know it's for an English class, but how about looking into translations of French graphic novels? I'm especially thinking about Asterix and Tintin.
There are definitely english translations of these, do this.
Not exactly "graphic novels", but . . . do they have any Calvin & Hobbes collections?
I loved Bone!
So...I also vote for Bone. This is a classic and if you suggest it I hope they don't throw it out because the ALA added Bone to their top 10 list of graphic novels that they might ban.
http://www.hypergeek.ca/2010/09/ala-banned-books-week-2010-highlights-top-10-banned-graphic-novels.html
But on the other hand Bone is listed in Time as the third best graphic novel of all time!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1951793,00.html
seriously though it's a serious story but draws lots of it's inspiration from classic cartoons and such
The typical high school stuff. 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Shakespeare, etc.
They are for the English department. The department head wants to specifically add a graphic novel to the curriculum because she wants something that would appeal to the students, especially those who might not find reading a regular novel that interesting.
So, something that can be analyzed afterward to a certain degree.