COMIC 6700-1: Special Topics: Comic Cooperatives and Collectives (2024FA)

Advanced Comics: Cooperatives and Collectives is a project-based course in which students will be assigned into randomized groups which will each work to produce a collective themed anthology by the end of the term. As we create these anthologies, we will also study how comic collectives and cooperatives have built community and established scenes–both accidentally and intentionally. This course is focused on the power of collective action, no matter how brief, and how cartoonists engage in mutual support. There will be reading assignments and discussions of works both written about these collectives, and by individuals from them.

The fundamental aspect of this course is comics-making and learning to produce things you can hold and share. This course will take us from scratch to several publishable themed anthologies.