Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for February 14, 2023

Hey, I once did a book report on a Scooby Doo book.

Clearly the goblin revelations didn’t last long.

I’m not sure that doing what her mother tells her to, projects the image that Dakota wants.

TELL it like it is. A COMIC BOOK. “Graphic novel” indeed. ;-)

In fairness to Phoebe, the statement is so blatantly incorrect and invalid on its face that it doesn’t really merit much brainpower in arguing.

Geeks, nerds, dorks, so many names, yet who focuses more on fantasy and who on reality?

Graphic novels are books. Screw you, Dakota.

Wow. I guess Dana really does want to make Dakota unlikable again after the goblin episode. Well done.

Tell her Phoebe, the report will be done and you will enjoy doing it!

So now Dakota WANTS to be a nerd? interesting turn of events…

Who said nerd are genious?

This story-line is a rerun. Note the copyright. It’s a good one though.

If this wasn’t a re-run – BLART!!!

Or both, sorry Phoebe, but this time Dakota is right!

Graphic novels ARE real novels. The text content of Maus alone qualifies, says this former middle school librarian.

Yeah, well, your mom doesn’t know squat then, Dakota.

Besides, if the teacher doesn’t have a problem with it, then seriously, who cares?

Boogers the size of asteroids? Novel and graphic.

I don’t say that Dakota’s mother is a bad person. But I think I’d probably find her really annoying. Also this may explain some things about Dakota and her way of dealing with others.

A woman I worked with and for taught remedial English in a high school before becoming a programmer. One thing she always did was encourage her students to do was read anything and bring it to class. That included lowrider magazines, comic books, and anything else that interested them.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a page with four panels would be 4,000 words (plus however much text is included). Way more than most “real” books.

The Europeans were way ahead of us in their appreciation for graphic novels. I still have a couple Asterix and Lucky Luke books from the 1970’s.

Was “Asteroid Boogie” inspired by “Electric Boogaloo”?

Graphic novels and comic books are one of the easiest things for a dyslexic child or adult to read. The font is usually the less busy comic sans that doesn’t confuse the brain, and the text is in smaller chunks so they don’t have to concentrate as hard to keep on the correct line. Instead of giving people who prefer them such a hard time, maybe things like classic literature should be turned into graphic novels.

Anyone familiar with an old Heart of the City (back when Mark Tatulli was still writing it) storyline similar to this?

https://genius.com/Clark-gesner-book-report-lyrics

I hope this opens properly.

“Nuh-uh”? Phoebe, you’re denying that you’re supposed to be smart?

I have an entire wall of shelves dedicated to graphic novels. They are indeed “real” books and many are superior to things I’ve seen on the NYT best-seller lists.

Many public libraries have whole sections of graphic novels now. I’d have killed to have this when I was a kid.

In middle school, we had to read a graphic novel that was a retelling of World War II but with mice as the Jews.