Using a single sheet of paper, sketch out your morning so far. Think about the stages of the morning, the transitions, the rhythm.

Exercise designed by Nick Sousanis

What information do you get from the page on the left? What do you get from the page on the right?

(Sacco, Footnotes on Gaza 190), Exercise designed by Kim Young

Try to use the images to determine what is happening in this page. Consider how the design shapes your understanding.

Using the images alone, think about the transitions in this page. What is happening in the gutters?

Question: What message is Li Kunwu giving us about the feelings of his compatriots upon learning of the death of Mao? What tools does he use for giving us these messages?

How do these pages by Jacques Tardi give us a sense of the individual and group experience and significance of the First World War? What is the author’s thesis?

What story is being told over this page and the next two? How does Jason Lutes tell that story? How does it speak to wider issues in the social and political history of 1920s Germany?