Graphic Essays and Comics
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A graphic essay (sometimes called a visual essay) uses a combination of text and images to explore a specific topic. Graphic essays can look like comics, graphic novels, magazines, collages, artist books, textbooks, or even websites. Graphic essays often first take the form of written essays and then have graphic elements added to enrich the reader experience. Unlike infographics, which also combine text and images, graphic essays are often more text-based and usually have a narrative arc or specific reading order.
Comics are a genre used to express ideas through images combined with text or other visual information. Comics can take the form of a single panel or a series of juxtaposed panels of images, sometimes called a strip. Text is conveyed via captions below the panel(s), or speech bubbles and onomatopoeias within the panel(s), to indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. Graphic novels are often considered to be a longer form of comics, typically in book form.
A web-based graphic essay can take the form of a blog or a single page website, such as a Microsoft Sway page or an interactive Prezi. For Microsoft Sway and Prezi graphic essays, see the examples below. If you are creating a blog we recommend visiting the Web-Based Projects page .
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Recommended Software
There are many different software programs that can be used to create graphic essays. Below is a list of the software that we recommend for making a graphic essay. We organized the software by category and put the software from top to bottom from best to worst. We recommend using a software you know well or learning the software well enough to establish an easy workflow, so you can spend less time troubleshooting and spend more time on your project. Check out our Software Support page for links to tutorials for all of these programs.
General Graphic Essay Software
Web-Based Graphic Essay Software
Comic-Specific Graphic Essay Software
Student-Made Examples
Print style graphic essay.
Becoming a Witness by Jessica Posnock
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Virtual Communication by Max Hautala *Award Winning*
Curb Magazine (2012) by Journalism 417
Web-Based (Magazine) Graphic Essay
Curb Magazine (Current) by Journalism 417
Web-Based (Sway) Graphic Essay
Language Influences Culture, Thoughts, and Identity by Kristen Luckow *Award Winning*
Dyslexia by Maria Swanke *Award Winning*
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Web-based (blog) graphic essay.
Switch It Up: Graphic Essay by Amanda Zieba
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Graphic Novels in the Classroom by Gene Yang
Instructional Video
CRAFT: Let’s Get Graphic: A Look at the Visual Essay by Nicole Breit
August 1, 2018.
If you’re keen to tell new kinds of stories – or old stories in new ways – consider these ten “visual” approaches to writing short-form memoir.
1. The Photo Essay
The art of the photo essay lies in the writer’s careful selection of images balanced with the inclusion of text. Will the photos drive the narrative, or will they fill in textual “gaps” to move the story forward? Vivek Shraya strikes an elegant balance of “showing” and “telling” in her compelling photo narrative, “ Trisha .”
2. The Concrete Essay
This form is the next evolution of concrete poetry (A.K.A. shape or pattern poems), reincarnated as CNF. Jennifer Wortman’s “ Worst-Case Scenario ” presents the story of her husband’s 35-feet fall into a gap while rock climbing, visually – via text shaped like the rocks he fell through.
3. The Illustrated Essay
There’s something so charming about a notebook doodle – perhaps because sketches convey the character of the artist in such an immediate way. I love the narrator’s personality as it comes through Randon Billings’ Noble’s drawings in “ Accidental Notes on the Syllabus .”
4. The Graphic Essay
Check out the masters of graphic memoir – Maggie McKnight , Riad Sattouf , Alison Bechdel , Marjane Satrapi, Kristen Radtke, Nicole Georges and Ellen Forney – and understand how powerful comics can be as a medium for personal storytelling.
5. The Paper Craft Essay
If you’re wondering what to do with your stockpile of scrapbooking supplies, look no further than Erica’s Trabold’s “ Swedish Rye Bread ”– an essay constructed as a collage of typed index cards, digital scans, the pages of a vintage cookbook, and scrapbooking paper.
6. The Quilted Essay
Quilting has a long history of embodying narrative in carefully chosen patterns, colours, and symbols. Learn more about textile-based narratives in Sarah Minor’s article “ What Quilting and Embroidery Can Teach Us about Narrative Form ” and by reading her visual essay, “ Log Cabin Quilt .”
7. The Schematic Essay
The Process of Becoming Informed is a found schematic essay published by The Diagram and credited to Michael K. Buckland of Library Services in Theory and Context, Pergamon Press, 1983. Where might you find a visual essay just waiting to be discovered?
8. The Graphic Hermit Crab
The hermit crab essay appropriates a found text – also known as a “false document” – as a “shell” to protect the vulnerable story it contains. The textual form’s logical progression is visual, in which a found graphic is adopted as the essay’s structure. J. Robert Lennon’s “ Turnabout: A Story Game ” is a graphic hermit crab essay that can be read starting at any point, proceeding in any direction.
9. The Video Essay
Video is a natural medium for personal narrative, and John Breslund is known as a pioneer of the visual essay form. This article includes a Q and A with Bresland and his collaborator, poet and essayist, Eula Biss, with links to some of their groundbreaking work including “Ode to Every Thing.”
10. The Interactive Essay
“Hypertext is spatial in every direction, truly nonsequential—nothing follows by necessity anything else in the essay” write Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola in Tell It Slant . Exemplary interactive hypertext CNF include Dinty W. Moore’s “ Mr. Plimpton’s Revenge: A Google Map Essay ,” Christine Wilks’ “ Fitting the Pattern ” and the work of Eric LeMay .
I hope this survey of the visual essay, in all its weird and wonderfully varied forms, inspires you to try a new approach to telling your stories. No matter your level of skill, experience, or talent with the visual arts, you can start including visuals in your work easily – and to great effect – incorporating images or multi-media collage.
Which visual essay format appeals to you the most? I’d love to hear which visual essays inspire your next project!
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Visual Essays
Gretchen Schroeder
We had just read a series of short stories in class, and I had intended for my high school students to write an essay comparing and contrasting how a certain topic or theme was portrayed across the stories. But, you know how it goes. It was the week before Christmas break, and I was running out of time. I just didn’t think we would have time to draft a full essay. I just wish the students could show me where they would go in this essay, I thought. Could they create a visual essay? Is there even such a thing? It was a little scary to conduct such an experiment, but I was interested to see what products my students would create.
I envisioned that students could use a combination of words, images, and quotations to show evidence of a deeper understanding of one of the stories.
I left the assignment pretty open-ended to allow for a variety of responses. I didn’t show any models or examples because I didn’t have any to show. I also left the medium up in the air, letting students decide whether to construct this on paper or digitally.
Since I was low on time, I presented the idea to students one day, giving them the rest of the day and evening to brainstorm and think of how they would proceed. Then I gave them one 45-minute class period to complete the visual essay.
What Students Learned
All students chose to create their “essays” in Google Slides. Let’s examine the different varieties in student responses.
Exhibit 1: Ammon
In Ammon’s visual essay over “A Worn Path,” he includes a paragraph summarizing the main point he would make about fantasy versus reality in the story. In addition, he chose two images to illustrate the contrast between the two, both showing a path, one bathed in light, another cloaked in shadow. His visual essay focuses more on his written summary, and the images support his main point.
Exhibit 2: Genna
Genna includes a summary of the story “Araby,” along with two sets of contrasting images, representing both the physical journey the main character takes to the bazaar and the symbolic journey he takes on his way to self-discovery. The images representing the character’s actual journey correspond to plot points in the story, but the images represented show her understanding of the character’s motivations and ultimate realizations, which can be challenging to uncover in this story.
Exhibit 3: Paul
Paul formats his visual essay as a flowchart, using arrows to illustrate his train of thought. His visual essay shows his thinking about the function of the bazaar in the story as a symbol. which ultimately leads him to uncover a theme. The images he includes underscore each of his points.
Exhibit 4: Tierra
Tierra begins with one main point about the function of the forest in “A Worn Path,” and then uses quotations from the story to show how this setting contrasts with the main character’s home.
Exhibit 5: Isaiah
Isaiah simply uses a group of images along with the title of the story. The images are more literal representations of the major plot points: how the grandmother travels through the forest to get to a doctor’s office where she can get medicine to treat her grandson, who has swallowed lye. The images convey his literal comprehension of the story, but lack evidence of close reading or a deeper understanding of the story.
What I Learned
For having so little direction and such a short time, I thought that the majority of students produced a worthwhile product that gave me insight into their thinking and interpretation of a story.
As I looked over each visual essay, I found myself wishing that each student were with me so that he or she could talk me through his or her choices, particularly when it came to the images. Since images are so subjective, I wondered whether I was sometimes ascribing thinking to an image that wasn’t actually there. Or, on the flip side, was I missing a depth of thought that was actually there, as in the case of Isaiah in Exhibit 5? This problem could easily be remedied by asking students to sit down and discuss their final product with me, to present their work to the rest of the class, or to write a reflective process piece to accompany their visual piece.
Final Thoughts
I would try this experiment again. There was enough student success to show me that this can be an alternative to a written text when I am short on time or when we need a fresh way of looking at a text. Despite the fact that I now have a better idea of what a visual essay can be, I will continue to leave the assignment open-ended for students to foster their creativity. I predict that once I begin showing examples, I will see little variety in the products I receive.
For this first go-round, I thought it would be unfair to assign a grade to the work, since students were given no guidance about what I was looking for. In the future, I will assign a grade only after giving students a chance to explain the thinking that went into their visual essay. I think that is the only way to accurately understand how the visual essay connects to their thinking about the text.
Like any good experiment, this assignment included both trial and error. Although I wouldn’t conduct every new assignment in this way, it was rewarding to see how students can surprise us when given the chance.
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Gretchen Schroeder is a high school English teacher in rural Ohio, teaching everything from Advanced Placement Literature to a Poetry Workshop elective. Her passions include helping students find their voices through writing and introducing them to books they love. You can find her sharing books on Instagram @mrs_schroeders_shelves .
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Introduction to Your Visual Essay
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Introduction to Your Visual Essay. Red Badge of Courage. Visual Essay. To begin your visual essay, you must first create an outline for a written essay. A visual essay includes all of the parts of an essay, but you just present your essay in a different way. Thesis.
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Introduction to Your Visual Essay Red Badge of Courage
Visual Essay • To begin your visual essay, you must first create an outline for a written essay. • A visual essay includes all of the parts of an essay, but you just present your essay in a different way.
Thesis • The first step of your visual essay is your thesis statement. • Use the following template for your thesis statement. • A thesis must have author’s name, book title, and how specifics reveal a larger idea. WRITE THIS DOWN! • In The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane uses a variety of literary devices to depict the moods of ___________, ___________ , and ____________ .”
Write your thesis statement on your outline
Topic Sentences • Look at your brainstorming homework: • What three moods are you focusing on for your essay? • Make sure these three moods are very different • What two literary devices are you using to depict EACH mood? • You should have 6 altogether • You may only use imagery one time in your entire visual essay
Topic Sentences Continued • Your topic sentences must support your thesis and give more detail than your thesis. • Your first topic sentence will have the first mood you choose. • Your topic sentence will name the two literary devices, in order, and use an action verb to show what these devices do.
Example • Craneutilizesonomatopoeias and similesto createthefeeling of fear throughout the various Civil War battles. • Topic Sentence equation • Author + what does he do + literary devices + action verb + mood. • Write your own topic sentences in your outline and try to be creative in the words you use to present them while also sticking to the equation.
Evidence • Your evidence must support each topic sentence. • You will need to find two pieces of evidence for each topic sentence; each piece will clearly contain a different literary device. However, both literary devices must clearly support the mood in your topic sentence. • I should be able to tell the mood you chose simply from reading your two devices. • In a visual essay, you evidence is what makes your presentation strong, so find the best of the best pieces to include.
Evidence • Make sure to embed your evidence into some context that sets up your quote. • Context tells the reader what is happening in the book when the quote occurred. • Always use a parenthetical citation to reference where you got your information. “Quote” (Crane 43).
Evidence Example • T.S. - Crane utilizes onomatopoeias and similes to create the feeling of fear throughout the various Civil War battles. • As the troops began to relax after a battle, they were able to take in the peacefulness of the countryside. However, suddenly, “A crimson roar came from the distance” and the regiments’ fears instantly took over them once again (Crane 79). • During the first battle, all of the men were running around in absolute fear and confusion, as they were not used to the constant dins and unbearable smoke that consumed the battle field. As the youth frantically ran to avoid this chaos, “A shell screaming like a storm banshee went over the huddled heads of the reserves” (Crane 47). • Do these topic sentences show one literary device each? Do these devices help to depict the mood of fear? Are they embedded into context that sets up the scene?
Now you try to find two quotes that support your first topic sentence. • You may use the possible ones you wrote down for your homework due on Monday. • Write these quotes in your outline while embedding them into context. • After 5-10 minutes, discuss these with the class. Make sure you read your topic sentence and then evidence to the class so we can see if your quotes support your topic sentences.
Analysis • This part of your essay is what you present; you are not to write your analysis on your PowerPoint, but use note cards to present the information to the class. • After each quote you should have 2-5 sentences of analysis. That’s 6 note cards with a short analysis on them!
Your analysis should explain how the literary device develops the mood for your particular scene.
Example During the first battle, all of the men were running around in absolute fear and confusion, as they were not used to the constant dins and unbearable smoke that consumed the battle field. As the youth frantically ran to avoid this chaos, “A shell screaming like a storm banshee went over the huddled heads of the reserves” (Crane 47). • Analysis (pretend this is on a note card): • This simile adds to the intense mood of the scene as the reader can almost hear the ear-piercing scream. “Screaming like a storm banshee” is a terrifying description as the reserves had to duck in order to not be hit by the shell that is obviously in close proximity to their heads. • Does the analysis explain why this literary device develops the mood? Why or why not?
As the troops began to relax after a battle, they were able to take in the peacefulness of the countryside. However, suddenly, “A crimson roar came from the distance” and the regiments’ fears instantly took over them once again (Crane 79). • Analysis (pretend this is on a note card): • The onomatopoeia “roar” shows the contrast between the relaxing scene and the beginning of yet another battle. Crane uses “roar” to portray the fear that must be in each of these soldiers as they are caught off guard and forced to resume fighting.
Image Selection • You must have six meaningful images throughout your presentation. • The images you choose must support your thesis, topic sentence, and evidence. • These will enhance your presentation because you will have to discuss every image you display.
Background • The background you select for your PowerPoint must also support your thesis. • Think about what colors could depict each of your moods or what background would add to your presentation.
Sample presentation
The Red, White, and Blue Elizabeth Example Mrs. Cavolt ELA 8 10 May 2011
In The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane uses a variety of literary devices to depict the moods of fear, excitement, and sorrow.”
Crane utilizes onomatopoeias and similes to create the feeling of fear throughout the various Civil War battles.
During the first battle, all of the men were running around in absolute fear and confusion, as they were not used to the constant dins and unbearable smoke that consumed the battle field. As the youth frantically ran to avoid this chaos, “A shell screaming like a storm banshee went over the huddled heads of the reserves” (Crane 47).
As the troops began to relax after a battle, they were able to take in the peacefulness of the countryside. However, suddenly, “A crimson roar came from the distance” and the regiments’ fears instantly took over them once again (Crane 79).
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