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Course Name Introduction to Comic Studies
Course Code 24OEL291
Program BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration), 5 Year Integrated B.Sc. – M.Sc. Visual Communication
Credits 3
Campus Mysuru

Syllabus

OPEN ELECTIVES-UG (Arts , Humanities and Commerce)

Unit 1

Introduction – Definition and history of comics – Different forms of comics (comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, webcomics) – Key terms and concepts in comic studies

  1. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
  2. The Power of Comics: History, Form, and Culture (Chapters 2 and 3 on the history of comic books) Edited by Rancy Ducan and Mathew J Smith
Unit 2

Comic Strips, Cartoons and Cartoon Movies

  1. The Very Best of the Common Man by K. Laxman
  2. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
  3. “Why Comics Studies?” by Angela Ndalianis
Unit 3

Comics, Memoirs, and Graphic Medicine

  1. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
  2. Marbles: Mania, Depression and Me by Ellen Forney
  3. “Graphic medicine: Comics as medical narrative” by Ian Williams
Unit 4

Asian Comics

  1. Uncle Pai’s Folk Tale Collection by Amar Chithra Katha
  2. Beast Master Vol I Manga series by Kyousuke Motomi,
  3. “Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society” by Sharon,
Unit 5

New Trends- Comics Journalism, Urban Comics

  1. Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco
  2. Corridor by Sarnath Banerjee
  3. “Drawing on the Facts: Comics Journalism and the Critique of ” by Isabel Macdonald

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives:

To familiarise students with the development of comic studies

To explore the social, and political significance of the comic genre To study the representation of cultural elements in comics

To understand and analyse comics as part of popular culture

Course Outcomes:

CO1: Describe the tenets and history of Comic Studies

CO2: Identify the relevance of comic study in contemporary literature

CO3: Discuss the fields and trends of comic studies.

CO4: Appraise the influence of the comic medium in politics and society

CO5: Evaluate representations of culture in comic narratives.

CO-PO MAPPING:

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PO13 PO14 PO15
CO1 3
CO2 1 3
CO3 2
CO4 3
CO5 3 1

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern:

Assessment Component Weightage (Internal) Weightage

(External)
Continuous Assessment 20
Mid Term 30
End Sem 50

Text Books / References

CORE READING:

  1. McCloud, Scott – Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art – HarperCollins
  2. Laxman, K. – The Very Best of the Common Man – Penguin Publishing
  3. Ducan, Rancy, Mathew J Smith. Eds. – The Power of Comics: History, Form, and Culture – The Continuum International Publishing Group
  4. Watterson, Bill – The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 1 – The Andrews McNeel Publishing
  5. Bechdel, Alison – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Random House
  6. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Me- Ellen Forney – Penguin Publishing
  7. Pai, Ed – Uncle Pai’s Folk Tale Collection – Amar Chithra Katha
  8. Motomi, Kyousuke – Beast Master I – Viz Media
  9. Sacco, Joe – Safe Area Gorazde – Jonathan Cape
  10. Banerjee, Sarnath – Corridor – Penguin Books
  11. Ndalianis, Angela – Why Comics Studies? – Cinema 50. 113-117. 10.1353/cj.2011.0027.
  12. Williams, Ian – Graphic medicine: Comics as medical Medical humanities. 38. 21-7. 10.1136/medhum-2011-010093.
  13. Macdonald, Isabel – Drawing on the Facts: Comics Journalism and the Critique of Objectivity – The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, 2015, pp. 54-66, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt15zc587.

SUGGESTED READING:

  1. Ndalianis, Angela – Why Comics Studies? – Cinema Journal, 50, no. 3, 2011, pp. 113–17. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41240726.
  2. Dey, Abilash – The Austere and Mute Glory of R K Laxman’s Cartoons and Illustrations – Indian Scholar,2015,pp. 1-9 https://www.academia.edu/33630711/THE_AUSTERE_AND_MUTE_GLORY_OF_R_K_LAXMAN_S_CARTO ONS_AND_ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. Ewert, Jeanne – Reading Visual Narrative: Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”, Narrative, vol. 8, no. 1, 2000, PP.

87-103, JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107202.

  1. Lydenberg, Robin – Reading Lessons in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family College Literature, vol. 44, no. 2, 2017, pp. 133-65, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44507177
  2. Cresson, Jodi – Company, counterbalance, and closure in Ellen Forney’s Marbles, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 10, no. 2, 2018, pp. 259-272, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/21504857.2018.1480506?scroll=top&needAccess=tr ue
  3. Norris, Craig – Manga, Anime and Visual Art The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture, edited by Yoshio Sugimoto, Cambridge UP, 2009, pp. 236–60.
  4. Goswami, Nilakshi – Ideological History, Contested Culture, and the Politics of Representation in” Amar Chitra Katha. Status Quaestionis 20 (2021).
  5. Macdonald, Isabel – Drawing on the Facts: Comics Journalism and the Critique of Objectivity. The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, 2015, pp. 54-66, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt15zc587.
  1. Macdonald, Isabel – The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, 2015 – Universal Press of
  2. Frazer, Benjamin – Danger, Disease, and Death in the Graphic Urban Imagination. Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form, University Press of Mississippi, 2019, pp. 174–216. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvpbnq63.9.

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