NC1018 Comics Journalism 0cr

Memoir has dominated adult graphic novel publishing, in part because memory is often viscerally linked with imagery. Similarly, visual and comics journalism allows authors to tell non- fiction stories about politics, war, and trauma in ways which meld non-linear experience with factual accounts. Students in this course will explore interview, landscape and visual translation in order to honor memory, experience and factual accounts of the real world. Borrowing from the strategies of ethnography, documentary filmmaking, and photo-journalism-and traversing genres from comics memoirs to comics journalism-we will examine how to ‘interpret the truth’ ethically and honestly. [Formerly titled Non-Fiction and Memoir PART 2]

Elective