ENG 2610 Fall 2023 Rodriquez

This course examines comics and graphic novels, words-and-pictures as an imaginative art from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Students will be exposed to a spectrum of comic-art forms and a variety of modes and genres. Students will also be asked to read several examples of contemporary comics scholarship. We won’t be covering the entire comics field because that’s too much to tackle in a single course. Rather, we will concentrate on long-form (meaning book-length) comics, typically called graphic novels. More specifically, we will focus on three genres: superheroes, memoir, and sci-fi.