Comic Depressions -- with guest lecturer/artist Peter Precourt

14 Março 2018, 15:00 • Lisa Botshon

Comic Depressions

·       Allie Brosh. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

·       Elisabeth El Refaie. “Looking on the Dark and Bright Side: Creative Metaphors of Depression in Two Graphic Memoirs,” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (2014) 29.1, 149-174. Available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2014.921989

·       Bring in at least a draft of a letter to yourself and ideas about how you might create a two-page spread.

Cross-Cultural Storytelling

7 Março 2018, 15:00 • Lisa Botshon

The Graphic Novel: Cross-Cultural Storytelling

·       Gene Yang. American Born Chinese

·       Scott McCloud. “Living in the Line” and “A Word About Color,” Understanding Comics

·       Exercises

Language of Comics and Visual Art

28 Fevereiro 2018, 15:00 • Lisa Botshon

Language of Comics and Visual Art

• Robert C. Harvey. "How Comics Came to Be," Comic Studies Reader

·       Scott McCloud. “Setting the Record Straight,” and “The Vocabulary of Comics,” Understanding Comics

·       Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik. “How to Read Nancy” (1988) (available online: http://www.laffpix.com/howtoreadnancy.pdf)

·       TEDTalks: Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics

·       Exercises

Introductions

21 Fevereiro 2018, 15:00 • Lisa Botshon

Introductions & Some History:

• Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey. “Adult Comics before the Graphic Novel: From Moral Panic to Pop Art Sensationalism, 1945-c.1967,” Graphic Novel: An Introduction
• Discussion of course and assignments
• Initial exercise