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Comics in American Culture
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Short Description: An historical survey of American comic art and artists from the 1950's to ... American culture by helping us to understand comics as a system of cultural ...
Content Inside: NACAE National Association of Comics Art Educators Comics in American Culture Spring 2003 (B931) Prof. Touponce Course Description: An historical survey of American comic art and artists from the 1950's to the 1990's. The course is primarily concerned with how comics has developed and matured as a distinctively American art form, reflecting and commenting on post-W.W. II American society in a variety of narrative forms: comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels. But not simply reflecting American culture, comics themselves have often been at the center of debates about the influence of media in shaping the national character. Equally important to the course are issues of content versus social regulation (which structured the discourse of the Congressional debates concerning juvenile delinquency during the 1950's) and issues involving the Comics Code Authority, which still governs the content of mainstream comics today. Countercultural comics of the 1960's and 1970's as well as alternative comics of the 1980's and 1990's round out our investigation of comics in American culture by helping us to understand comics as a system of cultural representations. Course Objectives: Students will be able to discuss the major developments in the history of American comics since the 1950's. Students will understand comics as a system that has been structured by three main ideological/cultural content divisions or publishing groupings: mainstream, underground, and alternative. Students will be able to read (i.e. decode semiotically) and analyze critically the major narrative forms of comic art: comic strips, comic books and graphic novels. Texts: Watterson, The Tenth Anniversary Calvin and Hobbes. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics DC Comics: Superman in the Sixties. Marvel: Fantastic Firsts. Robert Crumb, The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 7 Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen. Art Spiegelman, Maus. Daniel Clowes, Ghost World. Plus essays on narrative semiotics by Umberto Eco, R. C. Harvey, Martin Barker and others on ERROL. Requirements: This document is free for non-commercial educational use. See http://www.teachingcomics.org/copy.php for complete copyright information.
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