"How can it help his academics?" a parent might ask. I never asked that question when my two sons would doodle in the margins of their notebooks and school papers. These doodlings just happened and they were a common sight on their papers. They didn't seem to add to or detract from the quality of their schoolwork, so, if nothing else, I would get a little amusement when I looked at their papers.
Some kids like to doodle on their school papers. That's probably a big part of how my oldest son developed and improved his drawing skills over the years. No, he does not do realism art, nor does he aspire to achieve that type of artistic ability. His art is comic style--cartoons--and if I collected his many years' worth of doodlings, we could probably produce quite a funny book of random pictures.
We've heard that we should find out what our child's area of specialization is and let her hone and develop that. If I were tuned in enough to my son's doodlings, maybe I would have recognized his gift earlier. It wasn't until after he created his comic strip, "Carl and Ben...and Beeky," when he was 8 years old, and drew...and drew...and drew...until he had drawings everywhere (under the bed, in the laundry hamper, under the pile of newspapers, on the kitchen table, in the toy box, etc.), that I started wondering if this was more than just a passing fancy. I finally got the cue when he started showing other kids his comic strips, and they thoroughly enjoyed them, that maybe his comics could be shared with a wider circle of kids, like, kids all over the country. And how else could that happen except by publishing his comics?
Finding and collecting classic comic books for fun and profit is something interesting, but it can be difficult. With so many places to see, narrowing the choices can be painstaking, until now. Consider finding a rare book and get yourself on the right path to ground imagination or commercial success.
Cartooning and Comics in Your Homeschool Curriculum
A Book Review of Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part One
Warning: this book contains lots of disgusting snot, booger, mucus, and drippy, sticky gunk. The title should tip you off: Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part One, by Dav Pilkey. This is the sixth in the Captain Underpants series of graphic novels.
Even if you're a fan of Captain Underpants already, you might not like this if you don't like stories about snot blowing and dripping and flinging and flying. Because that's basically all that happens this time.
You might already know that Harold Hutchins and George Beard are two friends at school who have a knack for getting into trouble. They are budding comic book artists. They write and illustrate their own series of comics featuring a superhero named Captain Underpants.
In reality, they have hypnotized their school principal, Mr. Krupp, to turn into this superhero whenever he hears a finger snap. He strips down to his underwear and a cape and flies off to fight evil, villains, and silly made-up monsters, like the one in this book.
The humor here is mostly based on the grossness of a robot who was crossed with a classmate who sneezed, producing a snot-dripping robotic kid monster thingie. At any rate, if you think kids sneezing and spewing mucous everywhere is funny, you'll love this book.
Funny Comic Strips - Amusement and the Scope of Advertising
A huge section of people enjoys funny comic strips due to the funny nature of characters in the visual presentation. Germany boasts the introduction of this form of art way back in 1865. It contained the story of two boys being continuously rewarded for mischief. Later on, the art was taken up by America followed by many other countries in the world. It is considered the platform of comic books and presently comic serials for television.
The element of amusement is in the storyline, characters and more importantly in the sketch and dialogue. The presenter or creator overcomes the restrictions through speech bubbles and appropriate frame by frame story telling to make it really humorous. Artists and story tellers join hands to produce fantastic comic strips and some of them are immensely popular today. Humor is injected through sketches and speech bubbles to retain the interest of the reader, which reflects the mastery in this subject.
Teenagers are mad about these strips and comic books especially for certain world famous characters. The art has also been incorporated in computer games, which are tremendously popular in teenagers. Some of the gigantic characters such as Superman and Batman and so on are household names and are great hits through movies. The success of the funny comic strips is in the fact that they are simple and easy for a reader to understand. They describe the difference of good and the evil to a teenage mind. The colorful platform of entertainment has a special place in the society in every level of readers due to the simplicity of the form of amusement.
Top-Rated Children's Picture Book About Getting Your Child to Speak
Parents seeking most popular children's picture books will be interested in this. Books open avenues for exploration, amusement, and knowledge for your child. The pages invite different worlds and adventurous experiences into your home and equip your child to enjoy learning. Studies have shown that children who are exposed at an early age to reading do better in school than those who are not exposed. Sharing read-aloud picture books with children helps develop their listening skills, cognitive learning, and improve levels of concentration. It can be the single most valuable tool parents can introduce to their child. Being able to address fears and anxieties through books creates a comfortable environment to help children understand their feelings. Finding the best children's picture books to effectively attend to such issues can be difficult.
Parents who are experiencing issues with a child who is not comfortable speaking know how frustrating it can be. Being shy or unable to properly voice a desire can be equally as frustrating for a child. Many parents do not realize that a great deal of their own attitudes and gestures can significantly attribute to their child's inability to express his desires in words as other children. Recommended by the Newfoundland & Labrador Association of Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists, Oliver Has Something to Say! by Pamela Edwards is "a top-rated children's picture book with a humorous and enchanting story to encourage children to speak up" (Montreal Review of Books, Spring 2007). It is one of those children's picture books that will introduce in a comical and laughable way a problem that is very common to many children but difficult to change. Teachable moments are found through the pages of good, quality books.
New Comic Novel on Internet Dating Provides an Unexpected Cathartic Experience
If you haven't tried online dating, you are probably wondering whether it really works, and if you have tried online dating, you probably have enough stories that you could write a book. Well, D.J. Kelley has written that book and it is all and more that you ever could have imagined.
Ten years ago, on 9/11, Chris Osborne's wife left him for another man. Since then, Chris has tried everything possible to find the right woman for him-everything except online dating. Reasoning that his chance of accidentally finding the right woman is less likely than using online dating and its matching methods to select suitable dates, he plunges in full force, finding more women are interested in him than he could have imagined. Chats lead to emails and phone calls, and before he knows it, Chris has several dates lined up.
Although Chris' best friend, Ebby, a rough around the edges New Yorker, tells Chris that online dating is a mistake, Chris forges forward, agreeing to see one woman after the other. The result is a series of hilarious adventures and misadventures, sticky situations, women he would rather only be friends with, cougar women, and of course, at least one stalker.
I found myself completely caught up in the characters and the storyline. I didn't necessarily like all the characters, and at times, I wanted to yell at Chris, "What are you doing?" but I kept reading, cheering Chris on in hopes he would find his soulmate at last, while laughing out loud continuously over the encounters he has with some of the most memorable women in modern fiction.