FROM

COGNITIVE
THEORY TO
COMIC BOOK:
A GRAPHIC
EXPLORATION
OF HOWARD
GARDNERS
THEORY OF
MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES
By Brendon
Snyder

FROM COGNITIVE THEORY TO COMIC BOOK:

A GRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF HOWARD GARDNERS
THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
By Brendon Snyder, Project Zero Artist-In-Residence
Additional Digital Editing and Production by Sean Snyder

For Esther, who once said something about beams of light.

With much thanks and appreciation to the following people, without whom this
project would not have been possible:

Thanks to Howard Gardner, for allowing his theory to be presented in this

manner, and for taking the time to engage with this project.
Thanks to Mindy L. Kornhaber, for taking the time to be so approachable,
honest and open in e-mails and over the phone.
Thanks to Jordy Macbeth Oakland and Shari Tishman, for welcoming me to
Project Zero and for advising me on this project with so much support and
enthusiasm. And of course, for buying me a fantastic hat.
Thanks to Scott Ruescher, for helping facilitate my experience with this
project, and for helping me find my way to HGSE in general.
Thanks to Steve Seidel, for helping me rediscover my own creativity, for
pushing my thinking about it for two semesters, and for taking cartooning
seriously.
And thanks to my family Mom, Dad, Kathleen and Sean, for a lifetime of
encouragement, with additional thanks to Sean for his technical skills and
design expertise.
Thanks to Bailey, Jack, William, and Ian, for teaching me the joy that an
expanding family can bring.
Thanks to Kaj, Freyja, and Sarafina, for teaching me the joy that children
can bring.
And thanks to Esther, without whom nothing would be possible.

All of these works informed my thinking on this project (some more directly than
others), and most serve as a good entry point to learn about Gardners theory:

Armstrong, T. (2009). Multiple intelligences in the classroom. Alexandria,

Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Chen, J., Moran, S. & Gardner, H. (Eds.). (2009). Multiple intelligences around
the world. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of mind. New York: Basic Books.
Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: New horizons. New York: Basic
Books.
Gardner, H. (1999). Intelligence reframed. New York: Basic Books.
Kohl, H. (1994). I wont learn from you and other thoughts on creative
maladjustment. New York: The New Press.
Kornhaber, M., Fierros, E. & Veenema, S. (2004). Multiple intelligences: Best
ideas from research and practice. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
McCloud, S. (1993). Understanding comics. New York: HarperPerennial.
Schaler, J. (Ed.). (2006). Howard Gardner Under Fire: The rebel psychologist
faces his critics. Chicago: Open Court.