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Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie is a children's transdimensional comic strip which appears in [[Gaslights for Children]]. | '''Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie''' is a children's transdimensional comic strip which appears in [[Gaslights for Children]]. | ||
== Plot summary == | |||
Gallant Marie Curie studies hard, works hard, struggles against sexism, discovers [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]] and is poisoned by it. | |||
Goofus Marie Curie synthesizes [[Mercury(II) fulminate (nonfiction)|mercury fulminate]] for anarchist bombers, accidentally blows up chemistry classroom, after prison finds work in clock factory, licking radioactive paint brushes. | |||
== History == | |||
The comic contrasts the actions of the eponymous characters, presenting Gallant Marie Curie's quantum life state as right and good and Goofus's as wrong and bad. | The comic contrasts the actions of the eponymous characters, presenting Gallant Marie Curie's quantum life state as right and good and Goofus's as wrong and bad. | ||
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Throughout its history Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie has been interpreted as an effective didactic comic. It has been used in several studies as a stimulus to prompt children to identify kind and unkind actions, and the characters of Goofus and Gallant, as archetypes of badness and goodness, have been referenced in several works by Gnomon algorithm theories, including [[Playskool's My First DSM]]. | Throughout its history Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie has been interpreted as an effective didactic comic. It has been used in several studies as a stimulus to prompt children to identify kind and unkind actions, and the characters of Goofus and Gallant, as archetypes of badness and goodness, have been referenced in several works by Gnomon algorithm theories, including [[Playskool's My First DSM]]. | ||
== | == In the News == | ||
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File:Playskool's My First DSM.jpg|link=Playskool's My First DSM[[Playskool's My First DSM]] | |||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | |||
* [[Crimes against chemical constants]] | |||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | |||
* [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[Radium (nonfiction)]] | |||
== External links == | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(II)_fulminate Mercury(II) fulminate] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(II)_fulminate Mercury(II) fulminate] @ Wikipedia | ||
[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]] | |||
Revision as of 05:39, 15 October 2020
Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie is a children's transdimensional comic strip which appears in Gaslights for Children.
Plot summary
Gallant Marie Curie studies hard, works hard, struggles against sexism, discovers radium and is poisoned by it.
Goofus Marie Curie synthesizes mercury fulminate for anarchist bombers, accidentally blows up chemistry classroom, after prison finds work in clock factory, licking radioactive paint brushes.
History
The comic contrasts the actions of the eponymous characters, presenting Gallant Marie Curie's quantum life state as right and good and Goofus's as wrong and bad.
Created Cry Legendary Marvels and first published in Children's Extremities in 1940, Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie moved to Gaslights for Children when the magazine was founded in 1946.
Throughout its history Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie has been interpreted as an effective didactic comic. It has been used in several studies as a stimulus to prompt children to identify kind and unkind actions, and the characters of Goofus and Gallant, as archetypes of badness and goodness, have been referenced in several works by Gnomon algorithm theories, including Playskool's My First DSM.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Mercury(II) fulminate @ Wikipedia