Professor: Ben Saunders
4 credits
This class provides an introduction to the history and art of comics and to the methodologies of the academic discipline of Comics Studies. Students will be exposed to a range of different comic-art forms (including newspaper strips, collections of serialized comic books, and free-standing graphic novels), as well as to examples of contemporary comics scholarship.
Readings to include selections from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat and Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, graphic memoirs by Zoe Thorogood and Lynda Barry, science-fiction and superhero comics by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, and lots of other ridiculously cool stuff.