Graphic Narrative and the Comics Medium (LA)

Subject associations
ENG 309
Term
Fall 2024
Instructors
Kinohi Nishikawa
Registrar description

An introduction to American graphic narrative by way of understanding comics as a medium of textual and visual expression. Readings consist of modern and contemporary works that blur the line between fiction and nonfiction, novel and memoir, memory and history. In reflecting on the medium-specific qualities of comics, the course addresses questions of genre definition, cartoon aesthetics, and readerly experience.