ENG-227 Making Comics!: Form + Craft = Product

In Making Comics!: Form + Craft = Product, you will do just that; you will make comics. In doing so, you will learn how the peculiar art form of comics (or sequential art, or graphic novel) uses both image and text but ultimately operates in ways that differ from either prose or single-image pieces of art. It is the conjunction of the image and the text that make comics do what they do, so in order to understand that, you will write and you will make the images for at least four book projects. No art or writing pre-requisites are required, though you may be best-served if you have some level of skill in each. The course is not intended to teach you to write or teach you to draw; rather, the intention is to teach you how to combine those two mediums for the purpose of dynamic storytelling. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.