In Japan the school year starts and ends in April. Since exams for the third years in my junior high school finished a few weeks ago and graduation is still a couple of weeks of there's a dead space where the teachers can relax and not have to worry about following a curriculum. Some foreign teachers show movies or T.V. shows like the Simpsons to their kids and others just play games all day. One increasingly popular option is for teachers to give the kids comics with all the words removed so that they can write their own. This gives them an opportunity to use English creatively, express themselves through a familiar medium and all that other high-minded jargon that is written in the plethora of teaching handbooks. So, I tried this with my pupils and whilst not all of them wrote in English those that did produced amazing results. I used three of my favourite comics (plus one I can't stand) for them to fill in. So I hope you read these comics and laugh at their use of non-sequiturs, puns and abstract comedy rather than at their lack of finesse in the English language.
The Manga - Yotsubato
Original - http://koiwai.biz/eng/v9/ch59/59_28_png.htm
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9070/whyrl.jpg
http://img268.imageshack.us/i/notonthevocablist.jpg/
http://img69.imageshack.us/i/handmedown.jpg/
http://img189.imageshack.us/i/deathofateddy.jpg/
http://img163.imageshack.us/i/communalbathing.jpg/
http://img36.imageshack.us/i/anatomyofcute.jpg/
The webcomic - The Perry Bible fellowship
Original - http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF032-Todays_My_Birthday.gif
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/5642/toolate.jpg
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/441/sredpen.
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/8559/salarym
http://img844.imageshack.us/i/raidenn.jpg/
http://img193.imageshack.us/i/organharvesting.jpg/
http://img577.imageshack.us/i/imperitiveform.jpg/
http://img191.imageshack.us/i/exclamation.jpg/
http://img835.imageshack.us/i/dairyworker.jpg/
http://img827.imageshack.us/i/clairvoyance.jpg/
The newspaper funny - Calvin and Hobbes
Original - http://bdcentral.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cartoons_calvin_and_hobbes_chocolate_frosted_sugar_bombs_01_sweet1000x333x256.gif
http://img687.imageshack.us/i/heypr.jpg/
http://img141.imageshack.us/i/hellocornflakes.jpg/
http://img222.imageshack.us/i/endofapartnership.jpg/
http://img840.imageshack.us/i/dayatthebeach.jpg/
http://img135.imageshack.us/i/calvinthekiller2.jpg/
http://img30.imageshack.us/i/calvinthekiller.jpg/
http://img195.imageshack.us/i/bigmistake.jpg/
The other webcomic - Ctrl alt Del
Original - http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110121 (warning: as with all Ctrl Alt Del comics it is not funny in the slightest)
http://img839.imageshack.us/i/yakuzas.jpg/
http://img600.imageshack.us/i/sevitude.jpg/
http://img34.imageshack.us/i/personalitychangingdevi.jpg/
http://img835.imageshack.us/i/oikobayashi.jpg/
http://img713.imageshack.us/i/katurameanswig.jpg/
http://img402.imageshack.us/i/illfittingclothes.jpg/
http://img819.imageshack.us/i/hardgay.jpg/
http://img840.imageshack.us/i/gottinhimmel.jpg/
http://img88.imageshack.us/i/ethantheoracle.jpg/
http://img19.imageshack.us/i/emoyj.jpg/
http://img52.imageshack.us/i/differenceintaste.jpg/
http://img810.imageshack.us/i/beards.jpg/
http://img573.imageshack.us/i/badlanguage.jpg/
Bonus
http://img827.imageshack.us/i/img0661c.jpg/
