Comics:

• Check out these scans of a 1957 comic book about Martin Luther King Jr.
• Marc Singer is teaching a Comics and Graphic Novels class and shares his required reading for the class:

1. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
2. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
3. Art Spiegelman, Maus vols. I and II
4. Kyle Baker, Nat Turner
5. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
6. Gilbert Hernandez, Human Diastrophism
7. Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Boy on Earth
8. Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
9. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, We3

• The Graphic Classroom point us to a way libraries can win free books from TOON Books!

Animation:

• Stopmotionanimation.com has a great handbook for making stop-motion animations.
• Stop Motion Magic looks like a great community of artists.  Perhaps I'll post some of the work my students produced and get feedback.

Narrative Textiles:

• Hibberd McGrath Gallery specializes in folk art and narrative textiles.  Check out some of the great work in the artist gallery!
• An interview with Anna L. Dallapiccola, former Professor of Indian Art at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg, Germany about narratives in Indian Textiles. (via Sanskrit Literature)
• Homespun House is a relatively new blog that already has some great resources for hand sewn projects with tompics ranging from needle types to rug hooking.