ENGL 362 - Text and Image

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2015/16b: Sequential Art. An advanced exploration of topics in comics history, theory, aesthetics, and politics. Subjects and texts may include: conflict comics (Jacques Tardi’s It Was the War of the Trenches and Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Gorazde), women’s diary comics (Julie Doucet’s My New York Diary and Gabrielle Bell’s July 2011), comics, genre, and gender (Wonder Woman from origins to contemporary permutations), comics and colonialism (Herge’s Tin Tin and Goscinny and Uderzo’s Asterix), disability comics (Al Davison’s The Spiral Cage and Allie Brosch’s Hyperbole and a Half), comics and sexuality (Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home), comics and race (Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim), and comics out of the box (Chris Ware’s Building Stories). Readings will also include materials in comics studies, media studies, film studies, and literary studies. Mr. Antelyes.

One 3-hour period.