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research note /note de recherche Sean Carleton One of the last projects that activist and academic Howard Zinn completed before his death in 2010 was a comic book.1 With the help of historian Paul Buhle and cartoonist Mike Konopacki, Zinn released A People's History of American Empire in 2008 as an illustrated adaptation of material from his bestselling book, A People's History of The United States.2 The comic book is narrated by Zinn, and it depicts him at a teach-in during the height of the Iraq 1. Based on my reading of the scholarly literature on comics as well as my experience as a comics writer, I use the umbrella term "comics." Comics, or comic books, are also commonly referred to as "floppies," "periodicals," "pamphlets," "sequential art," "graphic novels," and "graphic histories" in English, "bande dessinée" and "bande dessinée Québécois" in French, and "manga" in Japanese. While I disagree with comics theorist Scott McCloud's exclusion of the written word from his definition of comics as "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence," I do support his claim that "the best definition for comics will, I think, be the most expansive." See Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible
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