ENGL 2785

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ENGL 2785
Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

POW! ZAP! DOOM! This is a class about how we can draw together, studying a medium that is based in the practice, in all senses, of "drawing together." We will read Pulitzer winning memoirs and NSFW gutter rubbish. We will trace the history of sequential art from about 1898 to the present, including caricature, pop art, and meme cultures, Wonder Woman and Wimmin's Comix, Archie and archives. Studying comics requires us to entangle disciplines and to make things: graphic design, marketing, media studies, law, education, and various illuminated cosmologies. What is this medium that teaches us to read the page anew, to speak in bubbles, to witness and play with apocalypse, to enjoy our suspension in the infinite, and to indulge in graphic sensations?

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, LA-AS)

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17206 ENGL 2785   LEC 001

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