Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks CAHSS Faculty Articles Faculty Scholarship Spring 1-2015 The Work of Comics Collaborations: Considerations of Multimodal Composition for Writing Scholarship and Pedagogy Molly J. Scanlon Nova Southeastern University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons NSUWorks Citation Scanlon, M. J. (2015). The Work of Comics Collaborations: Considerations of Multimodal Composition for Writing Scholarship and Pedagogy. Composition Studies, 43 (1), 105-130. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/517 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHSS Faculty Articles by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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Cover art and design by Gary Weissman. http://www.uc.edu/journals/composition-studies.html composition Volume 43, Number 1 STUDIES Spring 2015 Reviewers from March 2014 through February 2015 9 From the Editor 11 Special Issue: Comics, Multimodality, and Composition 11 Dale Jacobs, Guest Editor Composing With 13 A Comic Strip Cover Story 13 Gary Weissman Composing the Uncollectible 15 Franny Howes Comic Visual and Spatial Language: The Silent Voice of Woodstock 19 Aaron Scott Humphrey; inked by John Carvajal Articles 31 The Rhetoric of the Paneled Page: Comics and Composition Pedagogy 31 Gabriel Sealey-Morris Beyond Talking Heads: Sourced Comics and the Affordances of Multimodality 51 Hannah Dickinson and Maggie M. Werner Illustrating Praxis: Comic Composition, Narrative Rhetoric, and Critical Multiliteracies 75 Kathryn Comer The Work of Comics Collaborations: Considerations of Multimodal Composition for Writing Scholarship and Pedagogy 105 Molly J. Scanlon Course Design 131 English 177: Literature and Popular Culture, The Graphic Novel 131 Leah Misemer ENGL 1102: Literature and Composition: Handwriting and Typography 147 Aaron Kashtan Where We Are: Intersections 171 The Underdog Disciplines: Comics Studies and Composition and Rhetoric 171 Susan Kirtley Graphic Disruptions: Comics, Disability and De-Canonizing Composition 174 Shannon Walters Comics and Scholarship: Sketching the Possibilities 178 Erin Kathleen Bahl Book Reviews 183 Comics and Composition, Comics as Composition: Navigating Production and Consumption 183 Reviewed by Tammie M. Kennedy, Jessi Thomsen, and Erica Trabold Review of Contemporary Comics Storytelling, by Karin Kukkonen; Linguistics and the Study of Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett; Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments, by Barbara Postema Multimodal Literacies and Graphic Memoir: Using Alison Bechdel in the Classroom 193 Reviewed by Janine Morris Review of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, by Alison Bechdel; Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel Re/Framing Identifications, edited by Michelle Ballif 201 Reviewed by Peter Brooks Understanding Rhetoric: