In recent years comics have become more and more diversified. The super-hero genre has been supplemented by autobiographical comics, journalistic comics and satirical comics to name only a few. In the course of this seminar we will try to get a grasp of a whole variety of graphic fiction that exists today, uncovering a richness that need not fear comparison with other narrative genres. A reader with relevant material will be supplied at the beginning of the semester. In addition students are requested to purchase the following volume: "An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories" by Ivan Brunetti (Yale University Press, 2006). |
