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?Do you love reading comics and want to know which comic books and novels are in circulation today? Take this free online course "Comic Books and Graphic Novels" and do a survey of the comic book canon and major graphic novels in circulation today. The key question of this course is: by what terms can comic books be discussed as literary art?
Who should take this course?
Comics are for everyone; no background reading in comics is required to take this free online curse. All literature lovers can take this curse; however, this course is not for children since the course syllabus deals with mature, passionate and often painful themes.
What will you learn from this course?
From this course you will familiarize yourself with a mode of reading that will allow you to understand comics in a new depth.  It will also develop and polish your essay writing skills, allowing you to express your thinking clearly.  Above all, this course will buff up your power of imagination.
Table of contents:
- What is a Comic?
- Teaching Comics
- Reading the Grid
- The Golden Age
- The Virulent Art 
- Fredric Wertham and the Atomic Age
- Big Brother Steps In
- The Silver Ages Rises
- Underground Comix
- Comics Economics
- The Death of the Father
- An American Artist: Art Spiegelman’s Maus
- Modernity and Comics: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
- Finding Yourself in a Book: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
- Innovation and Originality: Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns
- Obscenity and Genre in Frank Miller’s Sin City
- Fantasy and Genre Fiction: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
- Media and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen
- Faces tell Stories: Joe Sacco’s Palestine
- War Machine: Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s The Ultimates 1 & 2
- The Book of Honesty: Chris Ware’s Building Stories
- The World of Comics
Author Bio:
This course has been prepared by William Kuskin, who is Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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