Interdisciplinary Arts 0208 - Making Comics & Graphic Novels: A Generative Workshop

In this course, students will explore the practice of making and interpreting comics. The ability to draw is not required as our focus will be on learning how comics works as a language unto itself and the things it can uniquely do as a medium over and beyond synthetically bringing together text and images. We'll spend the first half of the class developing lessons in the craft of comics based on our reading and analysis of artists like Emil Ferris, Lynda Barry, Alan Moore, Michelle Perez & Remy Boydell, Simon Hanselmann, Jaime Hernandez, or others. In the second half of the class, we'll move into a workshop structure where students will come together as an informed community, share their work with one another, and learn how to give, receive, and implement feedback, with the goal of developing a personalized and sustainable creative practice Keywords:comics, creative writing, graphic novels, workshop, sequential art

Art and Politics Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time