| Description | This course emphasizes visual storytelling in all
its complexities, exploring the infinite
possibilities of how to produce meaning by the
sequence of images and words. Focusing on the
creation of these stories for an online audience,
students will investigate how comics uniquely
manipulate the viewer's sense of time and space,
smell and feeling, narrative and place, through
the use of transitions and juxtapositions.
Projects examine narrative structures, material
and technical strategies, visual research,
self-publishing, and the fusion of text and
image. Over the decades, cartooning has matured
even further, and now the exemplar of the form is
the graphic novel, which tells highly complex,
literate stories, often taking on politically
sensitive topics. Discussion will include a
concise history of the medium and the rise of
manga and the graphic novel. Students will be
encouraged, however, to construct stories in
whatever genre, style and medium they like, and
to critically engage in the process. |
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