[LM_NET] HIT:Storytelling in Middle Grade Graphic Novels

[Stephanie Light <stephanielapetite@GMAIL.COM>]

Original Target: I am interested in middle grade graphic novels that deal
with storytelling, including (but not limited to):

   - Characters who tell stories
   - Characters who read stories
   - Characters who write stories
   - The author's craft
   - Books that rely on intertextuality for meaning

Response:

I'm not sure if this is exactly relevant to what you're looking for,
however: in Bone by Jeff Smith, Fone Bone is obsessed with Moby Dick.  He
references it in conversation and has dreams that pull in imagery from the
book.  It pulls the Bones' adventures into contact or contrast with the
iconic nature of adventure stories, suggesting perhaps, that they are
connected to a larger history of stories.

Also, in the lovely, wordless graphic novel The Arrival, by Shaun Tan, some
of the immigrant characters share their stories with each other, mostly
about the harsh natures of the places they left behind.  It is un-textual,
but vivid all the same.

-- 
Stephanie Light
MSIS expected May 2010
University at Albany
stephanielight@live.com

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