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Reading List for Teachers
Other comics with content
Chester the Crab’s series matches many state standards, but teachers interested in finding other non-fiction comic books for their students should look for the following titles at a bookstore, Amazon.com or your local comic book shop (found in the yellow pages under “comic”).
Each comic below has a description and label based on title (period of the book) / color, and / publisher.
Elementary School and Up
What if the Fantastic Four hit a weird storm in the Atlantic instead of cosmic rays in space? This series of stories is great alternative history, putting Peter Parker, Tony Stark and other characters you recognize into Elizabethan lives.
This look at the way people lived in early Virginia even has some 3-D pages!
Sketchy drawings don’t show much historical detail but book is small for small hands.
Wording is stiff and coloring is as flat and silly as a 1950s comic. But these cover a lot.
Too wordy, but these books do have good historical detail for any Civil War buffs.
See if you can find Horton the elephant or Yertle the Turtle in his newspaper cartoons.
These comix just take images from the TV cartoon of the Trio. Simple but fun.
Middle School and Up
Gonick’s books have underground style and humor and cover a lot of ground quickly.
More chapter books than a comic, but comic illustrations get the history to the funny bone
Fun! MAJOR POINTS for using the real words of a journal written by Dutch trader in 1634!!
Not a modern manga but a historic document of drawings by a real immigrant to U.S.
Many 1- or 2-page essays by cartoonists about the terrorist attacks. Moving and solemn.
You get one panel on Boston Tea Party or Texas founding, but there is good humor.
High School and Up
An offbeat look at an offbeat – and often forgotten – period of American history.
Some nudity but a gripping, educational look at German society between the world wars.
A comic so powerful it was given its own Pulitzer Prize. Provocative.
Cartoons are drawn very simply, but they convey action and athleticism well. A man is shown hanging, but the B&W style keeps graphic imagery to a minimum for the topic.
Fully painted look at war, for those who like the movies “Apocalypse Now” or “Platoon.”
Accessible first-person account of military scenes by one of the giants of comic history.
Graphic scenes of MLK’s life based on the latest research and debates on his life.
Very wordy, and the very cartoonist drawing of Reagan doesn’t look much like him.
Political, personal, and vital. Some drug use shown, but a great coming-of-age story.
Great mix of cartoons and real faxes to a family caught by sniper fire in this conflict.
A Lord of the Flies story about teens fumbling their way into a European war zone.
A great way to understand what happened before and during the terrorist attacks.
Subtle and funny look behind one of the world’s last iron curtains of Communism. (Read more thoughts)
Lalo’s energetic art mirrors popular Mexican cartoons. A challenging viewpoint.
Drawings are sloppy and simple, and there is some graphic violence shown.
Great thought-provoking look at history left out of the textbooks.
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