[nabs-l] Seeking advice from any commic book fans out there.

[minh ha]

Kaiti,

Have you considered getting a reader to have them narrate all the
dialogue in the comic and describe the pictures to you? We had to read
a couple of graphic novels in one of my AP English classes in high
school and one of my friends and I just sat down together and went
through the novel together. It took maybe a couple of hours to read
through an entire book since most of it consists of graphics. I don't
have any vision so using a CCTV wasn't even an option for me to look
at the illustrations, but I did really well when it came time to
analyzing the novel without actually experiencing the visual parts. My
teacher did offer to let me sit that section out and just do another
project, but I hate not doing what everyone else was so I decided to
try a reader and see how it would go. Hopefully you can find a
solution that works best for you because Silver Scorpion sounds
awesome.

Minh

On 9/11/14, Chris Nusbaum via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Have you checked BARD?
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 11, 2014, at 12:40 AM, Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This semester I'm in a really awesome English 200 course at my
>> university.  All of our English courses for 100 and 200 (the two
>> required composition courses) have themes.  I'm in a class which is
>> themed "Superheros and Villains in Society."  It looks at the
>> historical, cultural, and social contexts of supers, and the roles
>> they play as archetypes and icons in various societies.  The course
>> looks really diverse, and I know we're planning on exploring supers
>> and villains who are in minorities.  In fact, one of our scheduled
>> readings later in the semester is The Silver Scorpian.  This is a
>> relatively new comic from what I understand, and my professor says
>> people who are not interested in commics, disability studies, or both
>> would likely know who he is.  Basically, he's a Muslum kid from the
>> Middle East, who is wheelchair-bound after being involved in a
>> bombing.  He is chosen to handle a power that has been hidden for
>> centuries, and has to stand up for justice as... you guessed it, the
>> Silver Scorpian.
>>
>> My professor is also wonderful, and is willing to work with me to make
>> the class as accessible as possible.  One of our readings which we
>> will be starting next week is The Watchman, and instead of having the
>> disability office go through the entire book and narrate all the
>> pictures (which there are a lot of so my book would be very late), the
>> prof has given me permission to watch a version of the film which
>> speaks the dialog, and will allow me to pause the DVD to look at the
>> pictures in the book zoomed in and on a large computer display.  She
>> has also provided the class with chapter summaries, and sent them to
>> me in advance.  However, the Silver Scorpian books are even less of
>> graphic novels and more like actual commics than Watchman is, and
>> there is no movie adaptation since he's still a new character.  My
>> prof has said she would be willing to come up with an alternative
>> assignment and let me use another movie, and she even said I would be
>> fine to do Dare Devel if I wanted to since I already own that movie.
>>
>> However, I am curious as to whether or not there is a comic resource
>> out there.  Bookshare sometimes describes illustration in files and
>> I've seen that before, but they don't have commics as far as I can
>> tell from my searches.  Any ideas how I might be able to get a copy of
>> The Silver Scorpian?  If not, I'm perfectly happy to do a project
>> using a film adaptation on Dare Devel or Iron Man (her other
>> suggestion), but I'm mainly just curious as to whether or not this is
>> out there.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> --
>> Kaiti
>>
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