Comics and Cartooning: A Critical Survey

3 units

This survey course addresses the language and history of comics, beginning with the tradition of charicature in Europe and America; the emergence of proto-comics in the mid-19th century; early Sunday comic supplements beginning in the 1890s and the explosion of the comic strip as a popular form between 1900 and 1935; the advent of the comic book as an advertising premium and its development through the imposition of the comics code in 1954; and the development of underground comix and the emergence of the graphic novel.