Class No.4 (1st April 2014)

In today’s lesson we looked at comic strips. Comic Strips are popular to use at home in Ireland in an Art Lesson as they are easy to link with other subjects across the curriculum. For example, a child can use a comic strip to tell a story in literacy, or to develop an alternate ending to a story they may already know. It was interesting to find out that there are many famous comics that are of Belgian origin such as ‘Tin Tin’ and ‘The Smurfs’. Today we looked at Nello and Patrasche ‘A Dog of Flanders’ as an example of the famous comics.

 While looking at the comic strips, my attention was brought back to the theme of our blogs ‘A Search for Happiness’. Comic Strips are full of light-hearted humour and are a really nice thing to look at with children. Also in getting them to create their own comic strips, it will help them to develop their own sense of humour. As a class we then had a go at creating our own comic strips, which I found really interesting. I thought back to some of the comic strips we have at home in the U.K and Ireland and there wasn’t much of a difference between them and the Belgian comics – I will definitely use comic strips in an Art Class at home now!