Schedule of Upcoming Classes

This page provides a brief overview of future classes. You may also wish to consult the assignment schedule or the complete schedule, which includes past classes.

	Date	Agenda	Reading
Class	01/12/2009 - 11:00	Introductions. Course overview.
Class	01/14/2009 - 11:00	What are we talking about here? "Comics", "Graphic Novels," "Sequential Art"?	Barks, Carl. "Vacation Time." Ault, Donald. "Visual Narrative in Vacation Time."
Class	01/16/2009 - 11:00	Using the class website (Meet in Combs 349)	Chatman, Seymour. "A Comic Strip Example"
NO CLASS	01/19/2009 - 11:00	Martin Luther King Jr Holiday.
NO CLASS	01/21/2009 - 11:00	NO CLASS
Class	01/23/2009 - 11:00	Visual Rhetoric / The Rhetoric of Comics Groups assigned	Barthes, Roland. "The Rhetoric of the Image"
Class	01/26/2009 - 11:00	Quiz Comic Form	Selections from "Little Nemo in Slumberland"
Class	01/28/2009 - 11:00	Comic Form	Selections from "Little Nemo in Slumberland" McCloud, Scott. "Blood in the Gutter."
Class	01/30/2009 - 11:00	Comic Form	Selections from "Krazy Kat", pt 2, pt 1
Class	02/02/2009 - 11:00	A Contract With God	Eisner, Will. Keynote Address A Contract with God, through p. 61
Class	02/04/2009 - 11:00	A Contract With God Comic Analysis Due	A Contract with God, complete
Class	02/06/2009 - 11:00	A Contract With God Quiz	McCloud. "Time Frames"
Class	02/09/2009 - 11:00	McSweeney's	McSweeney's through p. 65
Class	02/11/2009 - 11:00	McSweeney's	McSweeney's, through p. 127 Sabin, Roger, "The crisis in modern American and British Comics"
Class	02/13/2009 - 11:00	McSweeney's	McSweeney's, thru p. 213
Class	02/16/2009 - 11:00	McSweeney's Homework Due	McSweeney's, finish
Class	02/18/2009 - 11:00	Webcomics	McCloud, "The Thing about Tools" and "Through the Door"
Class	02/20/2009 - 11:00	Webcomics	McCloud, "The Infinite Canvas" McCluhan, Marshall, "The Medium is the Message"
Class	02/23/2009 - 11:00	Quiz Remediation
Class	02/25/2009 - 11:00	Comics in Culture	Groensteen. "Why are Comics still in search of Cultural Legitimization?"
Class	02/27/2009 - 11:00	Webcomics in culture Book Due
Class	03/02/2009 - 11:00	SPRING BREAK
Class	03/04/2009 - 11:00	SPRING BREAK
Class	03/06/2009 - 11:00	SPRING BREAK
Class	03/09/2009 - 11:00	Watchmen	Watchmen, ch. I and II
Class	03/11/2009 - 11:00	Watchmen Introduction of Webcomic Project	Watchmen, ch. III and IV
Class	03/13/2009 - 11:00	Watchmen	Watchmen, ch. V Whitson, "Paneling Parallax" Blake, "The Tyger" (in the Blake Archive)
Class	03/16/2009 - 11:00	Watchmen Quiz	Watchmen, ch. VI and VII
Class	03/18/2009 - 11:00	Demonstration of ComicPress software. Class meets in Combs 349	Eisner, Will. Excerpts from Comics and Sequential Art
Class	03/20/2009 - 11:00	Watchmen	Watchmen, ch. VIII and IX
Class	03/23/2009 - 11:00	Watchmen	Watchmen, Ch. X - XI
Class	03/25/2009 - 11:00	Watchmen Webcomic publication should begin	Watchmen, Conclude
Class	03/27/2009 - 11:00	Moonshadow	Moonshadow, Books 1 - 3
Class	03/30/2009 - 11:00	Moonshadow	Moonshadow, books 4 - 6
Class	04/01/2009 - 11:00	Moonshadow	Moonshadow, Books 7 - 9
Class	04/03/2009 - 11:00	Moonshadow	Moonshadow, Conclude
Class	04/06/2009 - 11:00	Super Spy	Super Spy, thru p. 123
Class	04/08/2009 - 11:00	Super Spy	Super Spy, thru p. 227
Class	04/10/2009 - 11:00	Super Spy Quiz	Super Spy, conclude
Class	04/13/2009 - 11:00	Jimmy Corrigan	Jimmy Corrigan, thru "cut-out cards"
Class	04/15/2009 - 11:00	Jimmy Corrigan Webcomic publishing run concludes	Jimmy Corrigan, complete
Class	04/17/2009 - 11:00	Wrapping Up Course Eval
Class	04/20/2009 - 11:00	NO CLASS
Class	04/22/2009 - 11:00	Presentations: Team Jamma and The A-Team
Class	04/24/2009 - 11:00	Presentations: The Hoodies and The Dropsies

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