An interview with Maurice Sendak, illustrator and writer of childrens literature. (RB)

Using Dramatics students as subjects, high-school art students drew caricatures showing a variety of emotions. Caricature artists and techniques throughout history were also studied, as well as differences between caricatures and cartoons, which pupils also developed. (PD)

Presents a taxonomy of formal features of television and examines ways in which these features are used in current productions for children. Coding categories for formal features include action, pace, visual events, and auditory features. Concludes that commercial producers stress formal features as much or more than content. (PD)

Presents a learning activity about President Lyndon B. Johnson for use in seventh-grade Texas history classes. Students examine one photograph and two political cartoons depicting President Johnson. They search for clues showing the ways that the president symbolized Texas and summarize their findings in a brief essay. (AM)

College students read, listened to, or viewed a presentation about the library. Some presentations included cartoons. Results suggest that the printed text without cartoons is just as effective as cartoons or audiovisual presentations. If enjoyment is a factor, cartoons or audiovisual presentations should be considered. (Author/JEG)

An illustrated sequential collection of written observations from twentieth-century publishers and professors responding to a young scholar with a manuscript on nineteenth-century British parodists (period titles added) is presented. (Author/MLW)

Explores children's understanding of the nature of television characters by assessing their abilities to differentiate between human, animated, and puppet characters. (PD)

Additional investigation is required to determine how children can be aided in developing (1) a more mature perception of the action on television and (2) the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. (MM)

Discusses how a projective technique known as "cartoon tests" can be used by drama educators for programme evaluation and for learning-needs analysis and monitoring. Provides findings in which cartoon tests were used as one of several methods to explore student perceptions of a drama-based marketing subject at an Australian university.…

Primary-aged children (N=264) preferred cartoon style illustrations to representational and expressive style. They also equated cartoon style art with make-believe stories, whereas photographs were viewed as representing real life. Preferences for realism increased with age. (IAH)

Compared is the mass of a dozen eggs with the mass of air in an empty refrigerator. An answer and reasons for the answer are provided. (YP)

Describes how teachers might invite their students to become more creative and riskier in their own poetry by examining cartoons in Gary Larsen's series, "The Far Side." Claims that the finished products were often authentic and daring. Includes eight examples of students' poems. (HB)

Describes the nature and development of concept cartoons as an innovative constructivist teaching and learning strategy. An evaluation of the use of concept cartoons in a wide range of teaching situations indicated that the response of teachers and learners to the cartoons was generally highly positive. Makes suggestions for implementing concept…

This interview with Allen Say, a Japanese picture book author and illustrator, discusses his apprenticeship to a cartoonist; the use of color; the role of editors; the theme of searching for identity; landscapes; and his move to America. (LRW)