HUMN-308-SU91-2026: Studies in Illustration Genres: FIRST-PERSON GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
Course Learning Objectives
Students should gain an understanding of the depth and breadth of graphic memoir published in North America, Japan and beyond. Students will analyze graphic memoir through many lenses, including experientially, by creating research-intensive first-person comics.
Additional Course Information
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