Topic: Comics Grow Up: From Cartoons to Graphic Novels

Catalog description

This survey of major works in comic literature follows the history of innovation in the medium, from 19th-century political cartoons to the 21st-century graphic novel, webcomics, and our access to global literatures such as manga and bande dessinee. As comics have grown up, these literary and artistic works have continually tested the limits of what is socially acceptable in terms of our cultural tastes and attitudes, as well as our political viewpoints. We will study a wide range of graphic narratives as windows onto society at different times.