Panel By Panel: Narrative Comics

3 units

Comics are a medium with a long history. The desire to tell a story through a sequence of images has existed since humans began drawing and documenting. This course teaches students to create comics, with both fiction and nonfiction narratives. Students will be introduced to historic and contemporary examples of comics over the course of the semester. Through assignments and in-class workshops, students will learn the basics of making comics, including panel transitions, the relationship between words and pictures, pitching a concept, breaking a plot down into a script, production. Assignments will span a range of narrative lengths; exploration of digital and print formats is encouraged.