Nonfiction: Form and Technique
Term: Spring 2021 - Full Term (02/01/2021 - 05/11/2021)
CRN: 52004
Times & Locations
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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2/1/2021 | 5/11/2021 | T | 9:40am - 12:30pm | HS 332 |
Practice the craft of storytelling through graphic narrative, a medium combining text and image. As a course community, we will address how to read graphic narratives while we boldly try our own hand at creating a short graphic narrative or at least a storyboard for a longer one. Discussions and assignments will hone your storytelling skills as you examine the construction and formal elements of this medium. We will examine the creation of character; place; panel and page layout; the passage of time; lettering and font; tone; color; structure; and style—all as carefully crafted in visual images as they are in prose. Required texts will revolve around themes such as childhood and memory; trauma and survival; queerness; telling history; becoming ill; telling another’s story; race, ethnicity, & culture. Possible texts (so please don’t purchase them yet): Yang and Gurihiru’s Superman Smashes the Klan; Tamaki & Tamaki’s This One Summer; Ferris’s Monsters; Marchetto’s Cancer Vixen; Bui’s The Best We Could Do; Thompson’s Blankets; Johnson & Pleece’s Incognegro; Flowers’ Hot Comb; Lefevre’s The Photographer; Barry’s how-to books. Students will assemble a comic or portfolio at semester’s end, which will include a written portion discussing the elements used to create the final project.
Booklist
Book | Details |
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UNDERSTANDING COMICS
(93)
by MCCLOUD Required
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FUN HOME:FAMILY TRAGICOMIC
(06)
by BECHDEL Required
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PHOTOGRAPHER
(09)
by GUIBERT Required
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STITCHES
(09)
by SMALL Required
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HERE
(14)
by MCGUIRE Required
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BLANKETS
(15)
by THOMPSON Required
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BEST WE COULD DO
(18)
by BUI Required
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HOT COMB
(20)
by FLOWERS Required
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HUNTING ACCIDENT
(17)
by CARLON Required
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