Alternative Literature:

A Graphic-Novels Course

by Daniel E. Josephy

Hernández

»Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce and aesthetic response in the viewer« (McCloud, 9).

Comics

Choosing the Novels In English (though not necessarily of English »origin«, i.e. may be Japanese).

Must have some • sociological,• historical or • philosophical value.

Must be of a certain length (300+ pages)

The Novels: Watchmen

Ghost in the Shell

Sandman

From Hell

Logicomix

Complementary Materials

Understanding Comics Journals:

• < http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/ >

• < http://www.imageandnarrative.be/ >

Films

Themes War (Nazism, Cold War) Prostitution Dementia Human consciousness Body and machines

Works CitedHerge. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. United States: Little, Brown Readers, 2007. Print. McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics The Invisible Art. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. PrintMoore, Allan and Eddie Campbell. From Hell. USA Top Shelf Productions, 1999. Print. ---, and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. United States: DC Comics, 1995. Print.Otomo, Katsuhiro. Akira. Japan: Young Magazine, 1982. Print. Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. United States: Pantheon Books, 2004. Print.Shirow, Masamune. Ghost in the Shell. Bukyo: Kodansha, 1989. Print. Spiegelman, Art. Maus. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1986. Print. Watterson, Bill. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes. London: Andrews McMeel

Publishing, 1992. Print.