ENGL 121

Fall 2013 All Classes

All Classes

Graphic Narratives

Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to graphic narratives---comic books, comic strips, graphic novels, manga, webcomics, and so on---from a diverse panoply of cultural, formal, and historical traditions.

My Favorites

My Schedule

Section Status updates every 10 minutes.

ENGL 121 class schedule data for fall 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62222	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	104 English Building	Barrett, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Section Info: Topic Section C: Comics and Graphic Narratives Beginning with a Kryptonian?s ability to leap over tall buildings in a single bound and ending with a young girl?s dive into her father?s arms, this course explores nearly eighty years of American comics. We?ll concentrate on the formal choices artists and writers make in constructing their graphic narratives, but we?ll also pay attention to content, reading the fantastic characters and adventures of ?genre? comics alongside the realist works that have driven graphic fiction?s rise to literary respectability in the 1990s and 2000s. Featured creators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, Harvey Pekar, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Chris Ware, Joe Sacco, Lynda Barry, and Alison Bechdel.