Whatare

comics?

Comics are not a genre

Michael Turner

Carl Barks, Uncle Scrooge

Charles Schulz, Peanuts

Comics are aform

Meister Bertram von Minden,The Grabower Altar, 1375-1383

Colin McCahon, 6 Days in Nelson & Canterbury (1950)

Comics are a form

used to tell many kinds of stories

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons,

The Watchmen

Neil Gaiman (et al), Sandman Brian K. Vaughan (et al), Y: the Last Man

Craig Thompson, Blankets

Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe

Chester Brown,Louis Riel

Art Spiegelman,Maus

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza

Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna, Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth

Carol Lay,The Big Skinny

A selection of Christian tracts from Jack T. Chick comics

Scott McCloud, Understanding ComicsReinventing Comics

Making Comics

David Raw,Drawing Silence

Comics have

history

“The comics erode the most fundamental habits of humane, civilised living… and they erode them in the most vulnerable element of our society, our children…

“If we ban the comics we are reducing the chances of war and preventing the further perversion of the world’s children.”

Bill Pearsonletter to Landfall (March, 1955)

Dr. FredericWertham

Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Frederic Wertham (1954)

David Hajdu,The Ten-Cent Plague

Comics are

global

Shojo Shonen

Shojo Beat Shonen Jump

MANGA

Blutch, Blotch: Le Roi de Paris

Edmond Baudoin, Le Chemin de Saint-Jean

Joann Sfar, Pascin

Jacques Tardi & JeanVautrin, Le Cri Du Peuple

Frederic Boilet & Benôit Peeters, Tokyo est mon Jardin

Philippe Dupuy, Hanté

BD

Amruta Patil,Kari & Parva

Nikolai Maslov,Siberia

Various,Congo 50

Bob Kerr & Stephen Ballantyne, Terry and the Gunrunners

(Collins 1982) Terry and the Last Moa(Finlayson Hill 1986)

Terry and the Yodelling Bull(Hodder & Stoughton 1999)

Chris Slane & Robert Sullivan,

Maui: Legends of the Outcast (Godwit 1997)

Chris Slane & Matt Elliott,

Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War I(Harper Collins NZ)

Ant Sang, Shaolin Burning

(Harper Collins NZ)

Chris Grosz, Kimble Bent Malcontent

(Random House NZ)

Nga Pakiwaituhio Aotearoa:New Zealand

Comics

Pakiwaitara + Tuhistory + writing/drawing

How to read

comics

Bill Watterson

Reading pictures

closure

Drawings are a kind of language

Visual metaphor

David B.

Vocabularies of conventional signs

Herge

Miwa Ueda, Peach Girl

Pictures can be like words

Chris WareAcme Novelty Library

Chris WareSketchbook

Dialects, Idioms, Accents

Style as individual ‘voice’

H. G. Potter / Chester Brown

Robert Crumb & Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Picture + Picture = Comics

TaniguchiThe Man Who Walks

SCOTT McCLOUDUnderstanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Syntax & Grammar

HergeTintin In Tibet

Katsuhiro OtomoAkira

Chester BrownLouis Riel

Chris Ware

Chris Ware

Words + Pictures

Will EisnerComics & Sequential Art

Jim WoodringFrank

Jim WoodringFrank

John Byrne

James Pannafino, Typographic Comics

Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus

Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus

Dave Sim & Gerhard, Cerebus

Words can be like

pictures

Goscinny & Uderzo, Asterix the Legionary

Chris WareJimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth

Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese ComicsPaul Gravett, Manga – Sixty Years of Japanese Comics

Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels – Everything You Need to Know

(also known as Graphic Novels – Stories to Change Your life)

The Best American ComicsCover art by Michael Cho (left), Jillian Tamaki (right)