| Title: | Comics and Graphic Novels |
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| Course Section Number: | ENG-180-01 |
| Department: | English |
| Description: | HYBRID COURSE. NOT AVAILABLE TO VIRTUAL LEARNERS. ENG-180-01=ART-210-01=ENG-180-01F=ART-210-01F. 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 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 this deceptively simple medium as it develops its 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. Hillary Chute's new book Why Comics? will help us to frame comics's enduring subject matters: sex, the suburbs, disasters, and superheroes. Readings might include Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, selection from the Hernandez Brothers' Love and Rockets, Spiegelman's Maus, Lynda Barry's One! Hundred! Demons!, and works by Daniel Clowes, Harvey Pekar, R. Crumb, Ebony Flowers, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and others. The course is open to all students; underclassmen are encouraged to enroll. There will be capes and tights. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 25, 2021 |
| End Date: | May 11, 2021 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/26/2021-05/04/2021 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 01:10PM - 02:25PM, Hays Science, Room 104
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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: | 30 |
| Calculated Course Status: | CLOSED |
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