Comics Workshop: Memoir, Non-Fiction, & Journalism (2024FA)

Comics Workshop: Memoir, Non-Fiction and Journalism is a project-based course in which students will produce a series of nonfiction comics about real places, times and people. This course is focused on the power of comics as an explanatory tool–how to use the medium to communicate a vast amount of real-world information in a concise way that leaves a deep impact on the reader. There will be reading assignments and discussions of works in nonfiction comic genres such as memoir, history and journalism.

There will also be a lot of comics-making, which will produce things you can hold and share. This course will take us from scratch to several publishable minicomics.