Faculty First Year Seminars 191EDU5 - Writing Nonfiction Comics

Sequential or "comic" art is so much more than superhero comics! In this seminar we will learn a little bit about nonfiction comics as academic and popular texts, both as consumers of texts but also as writers and illustrators. Students will learn the basics of creating nonfiction comics of varying lengths, explore the academic applications of sequential art, and finally write their own mini comic 'zine on a non-fiction topic of their choosing, while also contributing to a collaborative class volume aimed at first year university students. Students do not need to know how to draw to take this class.

First-year (R1ST)