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Graphic narratives have been some of the most successful new media formats of the last twenty-five years. With a long history from 1930s superhero stories through the underground comics movement in the sixties to Art Spiegelman’s groundbreaking Maus (1986), graphic narratives span the whole gamut from factual to fictional, from investigative to fantastic, from didactic to offensive. In this class, we will read six graphic narratives and discuss the modes in which they approach the text-image tension (bi-modality) characteristic for the medium. We will establish the contexts of the stories and explore how the artists work with time and space, how they manipulate panels and gutters. Because of the specific selection of titles for this class, race, religion and gender will play a big role in our discussions. Reading: - Art Spiegelman, Maus I + II, New York: Pantheon.
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Boston: Mariner Books.
- Marjan Satrapi, Persepolis, New York: Vintage.
- Joe Sacco, Palestine, New York: Jonathan Cape.
- Gilbert Hernandez, Beyond Palomar, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books.
- Gord Hill, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
Requirements: - Course participation includes the duty to present a small topic of interest in class. The Module Exam is a 12-15 page term paper (research paper) for this seminar or the other seminar in the module, which you have chosen.
You have to register for this class in AGNES and the e-learning platform Moodle (link in Agnes). As a password use "Comic". In Moodle you will find the syllabus for the class. |
