HUMN-308-SU91-2025: Studies in Illustration Genres: First-Person Graphic Narrative
Why do explorations of identity or lived experience and sequential art go together so often? From BAREFOOT GEN (an eyewitness account of the Hiroshima bombing) introducing manga to North America, to MAUS bringing comix mainstream (and remaining controversial 30 years later) to the modern movements of confessional webcomics and graphic medicine, graphic narratives may be the strongest medium for conveying true and intimate stories. In this class we will examine the question from historical, psychological, cultural and visual theory perspectives, and investigate new pathways for the self in sequential art going forward.
- Teacher: Miriam Libicki