Cartoons

Why not give your course website a little sparkle with a cartoon? They can make a powerful point. You can find cartoons on the web (don't forget copyright), you can make your own, or you can have students make them. If you have copyright-free cartoons or links to individual cartoons, please add them to this list of cartoons. If you have links to collections or cartoon-maing tools, please post them here.

Very effective cartoons on violence against women.**: Dragonslippers** []

**Susie Cagle's** cartoons on First Resort Clinics in San Fransisco: []

Archive of **Alison Bechdel's** older work: []


 * The inimitable Sylvia**: Nichole Hollander's comic-a-day at //Gocomics//: []



=**Be Funky** [|http://www.befunky.com/create#/home]=

Be Funky (free) is one of many sites for transforming images. Photoshop works as well, but it's very expensive. Gimp is a free alternative, but not everyone finds that program easy to use. This site is simple enough to use for a short student exercise.

The image in this cartoon was taken in [|Second Life]. All photos you take in Second Life are your own intellectual property.

= **Xtranormal** http://www.xtranormal.com/ =

You've probably seen cartoons like the one below on TV. You can make one free cartoon with this program. It might be a fun extra-credit assignment to have students make them up; given that there are fewer choices for women on this site, students will quickly learn how easy it is to exclude people on the internet. Can they subvert the system?

Cartoons can be embedded in a course website. I made the one below in about 15 minutes. http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11384480

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A class of 30 students might produce 10 useful clips - could we build a feminist cartoon library?