AP/EN 2176
Comics and Cartoons I
Fall 2026
Topics
- American comics from 1900 to the Cold War
- Panels, sequence, closure and visual narrative
- Comics and immigration, urbanization and modernism
- Race, gender, war and censorship
Readings
- Required: Bill Finger and Bob Kane, Batman Chronicles, volume 1 (DC Comics, 2013).
- Required: Harold Gray, Little Orphan Annie: 1935.
- Required: George Herriman, The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1919–1921 (Fantagraphics, 2020).
- Required: Winsor McCay, Little Nemo in Slumberland, volume 1: October 15, 1905–January 21, 1906.
- Required: Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1994).
- Required: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, The Superman Chronicles, volume 1 (2013).
- Recommended: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue, These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present (2015).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public short course outline (tentative) ↗Fall 2026
- Short planning outline; readings may change.