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Are you a comics person? If you haven’t read the graphic novel Dreamer: Bad Dream by Nicole Maines & Rye Hickman, I highly recommend it.

 

I have, that’s what got me interested!

 

Whoa I just, after years of struggling to read due to a suspicion of having ADHD, gotten started on books and the mention of comics makes me want to get into them as well. Is there a thread somewhere to ask for recommendations?

 

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I find that comics are the one thing my ADHD can tolerate lol

 

Comics are a fantastic, criminally underrated (at least here in the states) medium. Love to see people show interest in it.

But also. As much as I love cape shit and have affection for schlock (in comics, film, and music alike). I do hope people reading comics aren’t limited themselves to mainly, like… Spider-Man & Batman & Invincible. That’s as sad to me as people who limit their movie time to Marvel Studios, etc etc.

My personal favorite is Jaime Hernandez. But, all sorts of other writers and/or artists worth looking to, like Michael DeForge, Zoe Thorogood, Katie Skelly, Julie Doucet, Adrian Tomine, Dan Clowes, Deniz Camp, Ram V, Kyoko Okazaki, Benji Nate, Caroline Cash, Emily Carroll, Junji Ito, Gilbert Hernandez, etc…

 

I go through phases with being able to read anything and then not being able to focus, but there’s some great stuff coming out of the comic medium

 

ADHD dyslexic. Noise cancelling ear buds, tinted glasses, and hand tracking took me from finishing 1 book through high school to a habbitual reader in my 30s.

 

descender – great comic

 

Coming back to this post because today I tried reading a book in a coffee/concept shop for the first time. Even though it's a cozy place, I did struggle to not read diagonally or not get stuck in the same page for a few minutes. What does hand tracking consist of?

 

it means reading with your finger so you don't lose your place.
https://www.afterschooliowa.org/Literacy/FINGER TRACKING FOR AT-RISK.pdf

i like reading books on my phone because it's easier to follow when there aren't too many words in a line. here's an example:

like this, here are some
words that are not many
on a page. it's easier to
read and follow a book
that has fewer words
per line.

the reason books are wider / have more words per line is just because of practicality. most 500 page books or whatever would be like 1,700 pages long if there were a lot less words per line. not feasible to make a 1,700 page book, nor carry it around... not the best for the reader...

 

Yeah like able said but I use my whole hand because it's more comfortable over a long period and it blocks half the page so my eyes literally can't go there for words

 

Hell yeah Raymond Carver

 

Also for hand tracking it’s a speed reading technique where the philosophy is the hand dictates the speed and the eye follows. I’m still going slow and not trying to speed read but its still really helpful at low speeds

 

Jealous of those eggs.

 

my old man uses a pen instead of his hand. a ruler would work too

 

MFer must be rich.

 

Not anymore

 

Friday I'm in Love (March 14 8:05am, Metro to Tullawong)
The train stumbles, prompting the prettiest girl on the train to fall into the second most handsome man on the train. He catches her gracefully and offers her the seat next to him, she accepts his kind offer and sits down. The man takes off his cap revealing a luscious head full of well conditioned hair. She takes out her phone, he his. The train arrives at Martin place and the man exists. The woman exits at central. There were a lot of tattooed men on the train this morning, much more than usual and not as many women. Overall there are always fewer people on the train on Friday.

 

The man exists.

 

oh that's an REM song, nvm I have heard them

 

I volunteer at a bookstore and comics and graphic novels are super popular among the youths and I love it. There are so many great middle reader books in that format, and it's very accessible to the kids I work with who are behind their grade level in reading. There are also a lot of cool memoirs written by marginalized groups in that format and I love it. Dogman series are the only books I can get my nephew to read. I got Mexikid for one of the kids I work with and I hope he enjoys it

 

Graphic novel style books are hugely popular in elementary school right now. That's pretty much the only thing my kids will read on their own. They have a bunch of series that they are upgrading to this format now, like Babysitters Club, and from my understanding it is a great way to get kids into reading and wanting to keep reading.

 

I had a student come to me enthusiastically wanting to talk Beowulf because he'd read it in graphic novel form.