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Comic books have arrived! "Comic Books and Graphic Novels" presents a survey of the Anglo-American comic book canon and of the major graphic novels in circulation in the United States today. Its governing question is simple: by what terms can we discuss comic books as literary art? In pursuit of that question it develops a theory of literary reading and time itself. Visit us at www.facebook.com/UCBComics or bit.ly/project10-4 to see some student-created comics from 2013!
Syllabus
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Professor William Kuskin
University of Colorado Boulder
This is the final schedule. A final syllabus will be available when the course opens.
SCHEDULE
WEEK ONE: WELCOME TO THE COURSE(RA)
Video 1: Welcome to the Course
Video 2: The Syllabus (Overview)Video 3: The Syllabus (Logistics)
Video 4: What is a Comic?
Video 5: Teaching Comics (w/Barry Barrows)
Video 6: Collecting (w/Jim Vacca)
WEEK TWO: TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Lecture 1a: Reading the Grid
Lecture 1b: Two Comics Masters
Lecture 2a: The Golden Age
Lecture 2b: Golden Age Master
Lecture 2c: Gender in the Golden Age
Lecture 3a: The Virulent Art
Lecture 3b: The Possibilities of Change
WEEK THREE: CRASH AND REBIRTH
Lecture 4a: Big Brother Steps In
Lecture 4b: The Comics Code Authority
Video 7: Fredric Wertham and the Atomic Age (w/Jim Vacca)
Lecture 5a: The Silver Ages Rises
Lecture 5b: Silver Age Master
Lecture 6a: Underground Comix
Lecture 6b: Black and White
Video 8: Comics Economics (w/Wayne Winsett)
WEEK FOUR: PATERNITY AND CREATIVITY
Lecture 7a: The Death of the Father
Lecture 7b: The Birth of the Children
Lecture
8: Art Spiegelman’s Maus
a: An American Artist
b: How to Read a
Book 9: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
a: Finding Yourself in a Book
b: What Defines Art
WEEK FIVE: GENRE
Lecture 10:
Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns
a: Innovation and Originality
b: The Rules of Genre
c: Who is The Batman?
Lecture 11: Warren Ellis and John Cassady's Planetary
a: The Possibilities of Genre
b: The Limits of the Page
Lecture 12: Neil Gaiman, Bill Willingham, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Stables, and the Vernacular Canon of Fantasy
WEEK SIX: MEDIA
Lecture 13: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen
a: The Media
b: The Poetics of the Page
c: Graphia
Lecture 14: Joe Sacco’s Palestine
a: Faces Tell Stories
b: Dead Ends
Lecture 15: Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s The Ultimates
a: War Machine
b: Star Power
WEEK SEVEN: CONCLUSION
Lecture 16: Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Building Stories
a: The Aesthetics of Loneliness
b: The Book of Honesty
Lecture 17: Comics Energy
Video 8: The Community of Comics (w/Chris Angel)
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- William Kuskin - English
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