This course explores the specificity of comics as a medium through close attention to how comic books, graphic novels, and other forms of sequential art use words and images to tell stories, elicit emotions, make arguments, and otherwise engage the reader. We will study the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of comics form and style within the context of the rapidly expanding field of comics.HAAVC 3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created.

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