| Title: | Comics and Graphic Novels |
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| Course Section Number: | ENG-180-02 |
| Department: | English |
| Description: | English 180-02 = ART-210: Comics and Graphic Novels. Dismissed once as kids fare or shrugged off as sub-literate-"in the hierarchy of applied arts," Art Spiegelman once wrote, comic books surpass only "tattoo art and sign painting"-comics today are enjoying their Renaissance. In 2015, comics and graphic novel sales topped $1 billon, a 20-year high. Award-winning fiction writers now moonlight for Marvel (Roxanne Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates) or pen essays on Peanuts (Jonathan Franzen). Superheroes dominate the big screen. In this class, we'll explore a deceptively simple medium as it develops-like a teen bit by a radioactive spider-a whole host of special abilities. We'll use Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, a critical text that is itself a comic, to become smart readers of sequential art. We'll use Hillary Chute's new book, Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere, to ask why comics so frequently explore sex, the suburbs, disaster, and superheroes. Readings might include Moore and Gibbons's The Watchmen, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, the Hernandez Brothers' Love and Rockets, Spiegelman's Maus, and/or works by Lynda Barry, Daniel Clowes, Phoebe Gloeckner, Harvey Pekar, R. Crumb, and Chris Ware. The course is open to all students; underclassmen are encouraged to enroll. There will be capes and tights. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 14, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/15/2019-05/02/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Center Hall, Room 215
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| Faculty: | Mong, Derek |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 30 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 29 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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