Political Comics and Graphic Novels 2100-ERASMUS-PCGN

Upon completion of the course the students will:
• Be able to define basic terms of cultural studies;
• Be able to spot and discuss political issues present in comics and graphic novels;
• Analyze and interpret Comics and graphic novels for political issues;
• Have knowledge in the field of contemporary comics and graphic novels.

• Short assignment on Google Classroom (8 points).
• Take-Home Quiz (20 points).

None

Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Azzarello, Brian (w)., and J.G. Jones (a). “Comedian.” in Before Watchmen: Comedian, Rorschach, Brian Azzarello (w), J.G. Jones, Lee Bermejo (a), DC Comics: New York, 2013.
Bechdel, Alison (w&a). 2006. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Brubaker, Ed (w), and Steve Epting (a). 2007. Captain America Omnibus. Vol. 1. New York: Marvel Publishing.
Ellis, Warren (w), and Darick Robertson (a). 2009-2011. Transmetropolitan. Vol. 1-10. New York: Vertigo.
Ennis, Garth (w), Peter Snejberg (a). 2009. Battlefields Volume 2: Dear Billy. Runnemede, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment.
Ennis, Garth (w), Amanda Conner (a), 2007. The Pro. Portland: Image Comics.
Ennis, Garth, and Robertson, Darick. 2007. The Punisher: Born. New York: Marvel.
Ennis, Garth (w), Chris Weston, Gary Erskine, John Higgins, Dave Gibbons, David Lloyd (a). 2015. War Stories. Vol. 2. Avatar Press: Rantoul.
Ferguson, John (w), Gary Welsh (a), and Tone Juskjaer (a). 2013. Saltire: Invasion. Dundee: Diamondsteel Comics.
Gaiman, Neil (w). and Andy Kubert (a). 2010. Marvel 1602. New York: Marvel Publishing.
King, Tom (w), and Mitch Gerads (a). The Sheriff of Babylon. Vol. 1-2, Vertigo: New York.
Kirkman, Robert (w), Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. 2004-2019. The Walking Dead. Vol. 1-32. Portland: Image Comics.
Millar, Mark (w), and Steve McNiven (a). 2007. Civil War. New York: Marvel Publishing.
Miller, Frank. 2011. Holy Terror. Burbank: Legendary Comics.
Mills, Pat (w), and Joe Colquhoun (a). 2018. Charley’s War. Vol. 1-3. Oxford: 2000AD, Rebellion.
Moore, Alan (w), and Brian Bolland. 2016. Batman: The Killing Joke. Burbank: DC Comics.
Moore, Alan (w)., and Eddie Campbell (a). 2004. From Hell. Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Part. Marietta: Top Shelf Productions.
Moore, Alan (w)., and David Lloyd (a). 2008.V for Vendetta. New York: DC Comics.
Moore, Alan (w), and Dave Gibbons (a). 2014. Watchmen. International Edition. New York: DC Comics.
Newman, Paul (w)., and John Tartaglione (a). August-October, 1964. John F. Kennedy: 1917-1963. New York: Dell Publishing
The Original Writer, and Mick Anglo (w), Garry Leach, Alan Davis, Steve Dillon (a). 2014. Miracleman Book One: A Dream of Flying. Marvel Comics: New York.
The Original Writer (w), and Chuck Austen, Rick Veitch, John Totleben (a). 2014. Miracleman Book Two: The Red King Syndrome. Marvel Comics: New York.
The Original Writer, and Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan (w), John Totleben, Joe Quesada, Mike Allred (a). 2015. Miracleman Book Three: Olympus. Marvel Comics: New York.
Occupy Comics. 2013. #1-3. Black Mask Studios.
Pak, Greg (w), and Carmine Di Giandomenico (a). 2009. X-Men: Magneto Testament. New York: Marvel.
Satrapi, Marjane (w&a). 2005. Persepolis. Vol. 1-2. New York: Pantheon Books.
The selection of crime and horror comics available at: Seduction of the Innocent collection, Comic Book +, https://comicbookplus.com/?cbplus=seductionofthe-innocentcollection.
The selection of EC comics.
The selection of X-Men, Luke Cage and Black Panther comics.
The Selection of Ms. Marvel and Wonder Woman stories.
Spiegelman, Art (w&a). 2003. The Complete Maus. Londom: Penguin Books.
Straczynski, J. Michael (w)., and Adam Hughes (a). “Dr. Manhattan.” in Before Watchmen: Night Owl, Dr. Manhattan, J. Michael Straczynski (w), Andy Kubert, Adam Hughes, Eduardo Risso (a), DC Comics: New York, 2013.
Tynion IV, James (w), 2021-2022. The Department of Truth. Vol. 1-3. Image Comics: Portland.
Wein, Len (w)., and Jae Lee (a). “Ozymandias.” in Before Watchmen: Ozymandias, Crimson Corsair, Len Wein, John Higgins (w), Jae Lee, John Higgins, Steve Rude (a), DC Comics: New York, 2013.
Vaughan, Brian K. (w), and Niko Henrichon (a). 2008. Pride of Baghdad. New York: DC Comics.
Wagner, John (w), and Colin McNeil (a). 2015. Judge Dredd: America. Rebellion: Oxford.

Recommended audio-visual materials
Captain America: Civil War, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. 2016. Marvel Studios. Film.
Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston. 2011. Marvel Studios. Film.
Joker, directed by Todd Phillips, 2019. Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films. Film.
V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue. 2006. Warner Bros. Pictures. Film.

Essential readings
Barbour Chad. 2015. “When Captain America Was an Indian: Heroic Masculinity, National Identity, and Appropration.” The Journal of Popular Culture 48 (2): 269–284.
Bratich, Jack Z. 2008. Conspiracy Panics. Political Rationality and Popular Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press: 1–14.
Chute, Hilary. 2009. “History and Graphic Representation in Maus.” In A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, 340–362. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Chapman, James. 2011. British Comics: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books.
Charlotte F. Werbe. 2019. “Retroactive Continuity, Holocaust Testimony, and X-Men’s Magneto.” The Journal of Holocaust Research 33 (4): 302–313.
Coogan, Peter. 2009. “The Definition of Superhero.” In A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, 77–93. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Croci, Daniele. 2016. “Holy Terror, Batman! Frank Miller’s Dark Knight and the Superhero as Hardboiled Terrorist.” Altre Modernità (15): 163–185.
Curtis, Neal, and Valentina Cardo. 2018. “Superheroes and Third-Wave Feminism”, Feminist Media Studies 18 (3): 381–396.
Davidson, James F. 1961. “Political Science and Political Fiction.” American Political Science Review 55 (4): 851–860.
Dittmer, Jason. 2005. “Captain America’s Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post 9/11 Geopolitics.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95: 626–643.
Dittmer, Jason. 2011. “Captain Britain and the Narration of Nation.” The Geographical Review 101: 71–87.
Duncan, Randy, and Matthew J. Smith. 2017. “How the Graphic Novel Works.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel, edited by Stephen E. Tabachnik, 8–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fairclough, Norman, and Isabela Fairclough. 2016. “Textual Analysis.” In The Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science, edited by Marl Bevir, and R.A.W. Rhodes, 186–198. London and New York: Routledge.
Finlayson, Alan. 2016. “Cultural Studies.” In The Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science, edited by Marl Bevir, and R.A.W. Rhodes, 113–125. London and New York: Routledge.
Galant, Justyna. 2016. “Transmetropolitan: Dystopia, Hyperbole, and the Superhero.” In More After More: Essays Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, edited by Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński, and Krzysztof M. Maj, 364–375. Kraków: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta.
Gibson Mel. 2017. “Comics and Gender.” In The Routledge Companion to Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, Aaron Meskin, 285–293. Abingdom, New York: Routledge.
Giry, Julien, and Tika Pranvera. 2020. “Conspiracy Theories in Political Science and Political Theory.” In Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories, edited by Michael Butter, Peter Knight, 108–120. London and New York: Routledge.
Goodrum, Michael. 2017. “Comics and Politics” In The Routledge Companion to Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, Aaron Meskin, 415–423. Abingdom, New York: Routledge.
Groensteen, Thierry. 2009. “The Impossible Definition.” In A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, 124–131. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Hague, Ian. 2017. “Comics and Cultural Studies.” In The Routledge Companion to Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, Aaron Meskin, 424–432. Abingdom, New York: Routledge.
Harris, Stephen. 2019. “The Joker to Guy Fawkes: Why Protesters around the World are Wearing the Same Masks.” The Conversation. November 13. https://thecon-versation.com/the-joker-to-guy-fawkes-why-protesters-around-the-world-are-wearing-the-same-masks-126458/.
Keller, James R. 2008. V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche. A Critical Study of the Graphic
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Kropotkin, Peter. 1975. “Selections from Mutual Aid.” In The Essential Kropotkin, edited by Emile Capouya, and Keitha Tompkins, 170–207. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press.
Kohns, Oliver. 2013. “Guy Fawkes in the 21st Century. A Contribution to the Political Iconography of Revolt.” Image [&] Narrative 14 (1): 89–104.
Kunka, Andrew J. 2017. “Comics, Race, and Ethnicity.” In The Routledge Companion to Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, Aaron Meskin, 275–284. Abingdom, New York: Routledge.
Labarre, Nicolas. 2019. “Reading the 2016 US Presidential Election through Transmetropolitan.”, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 10 (4): 432–444.
Lent, John A., “The Comics Debate Internationally.” In A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, 69–76. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Lewandowski, Wojciech. 2016. “SuperScots. Supeheroes and Scottish Identity.” In Scottish Culture: Dialogue and Self-Expression, edited by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska, 380–88. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.
Mance, Ajuan. 2017. “LGBTQ Representation in Comics.” In The Routledge Companion to Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, Aaron Meskin, 294–302. Abingdom, New York: Routledge.
McCloud, Scott. 1994. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. HarperPerennial.
Nyberg, Amy Kiste. 2009. “William Gaines and the Battle over EC Comics.” In A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, 58–68. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Pettitt, Joanne. 2019. “Remembering the Holocaust in American Superhero Comics.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 10 (1): 155–166.
Prince, Michael J. 2015. “‘Whose Side Are You on?’: Negotiations between Individual Liberty and Collective Responsibility in Millar and McNiven’s Marvel Civil War.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 6 (2): 182–92.
Prooijen, Jan-Willem van, and Karen M Doughlas. 2017. “Conspiracy Theories as Part of History: The Role of Societal Crisis Situation.” Memory Studies 10 (3): 323–333.
Rech, Matthew F. 2014. “Be Part of the Story: A Popular Geopolitics of War Comics Aesthetics and Royal Air Force Recruitment”. Political Geography 39: 36–47.
Ruiz, Pollyanna. 2013. “Revealing Power: Masked Protest and the Blank Figure.” Cultural Politics 9 (3): 263–279.
Sabin, Roger. 2010. Adult Comics: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge.
Scott, Cord. 2007. “Written in Red, White, and Blue: A Comparison of Comic Book Propaganda from World War II and September 11.” The Journal of Popular Culture 40 (2): 325–43.
Shaheen, Jack G. 1994. “Arab Images in American Comic Books.” The Journal of Popular Culture 28 (1): 123–133.
Singer, Marc. 2002. “‘Black Skins” and White Masks: Comic Books and the Secret of Race.” African American Review 36 (1): 107–119.
Storey, John. 2009. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction. Pearson. Longman: 1–16.
Tabachnik, Stephen E. 2017. “From Comics to the Graphic Novels: William Hogarth to Will Eisner.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel, edited by Stephen E. Tabachnik, 26–40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
van Zoonen, Liesbet. 1998. “A Day at the Zoo: Political Communication, Pigs and Popular Culture.” Media, Culture & Society 20 (2): 183–200.
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew. 2003. “The World Ozymandias Made: Utopias in the Superhero Comic, Subculture, and the Conservation of Difference.” The Journal of Popular Culture 36 (3): 497–517.
Wright, Bradford W. 2003. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Wright, Geoffrey A. 2017. “Hobbes, Locke, Darwin, and Zombies: The Post-Apocalyptic Politics of Survival in AMC’s The Walking Dead”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32 (2): 148–170.

Further readings
Adkinson, Cary D. 2008. “The Amazing Spider-Man and the Evolution of the Comics Code: A Case Study in Cultural Criminology.” Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 3 (15): 241-261
Adler-Kassner, Linda. 1995. “‘Why Won’t You Just Read It?’: Comic Books and Community in the 1950s.,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington DC August 9-12. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED387852.
Alexopoulou, Sofia, and Antonia Pavli. 2019. “‘Beneath This Mask There Is More Than Flesh, Beneath This Mask There Is an Idea’: Anonymous as the (Super)Heroes of the Internet?” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, 1–28.
Allister, Matthew P., Edward H. Sewell Jr., and Ian Gordon. 2001. “Introducing Comics and Ideology.” In: Comics and Ideology, edited by Matthew P. Allister, Edward H. Sewell Jr., and Ian Gordon, 1–13, New York: Peter Lang.
Altheide, David L. 2010. “Fear, Terrorism, and Popular Culture”, In Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the ‘War on Terrorism’, edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell, London: Bloomsbury Academic: 11–22.
Andreassen, Anja Borg. 2019. „Yes, We Khan – Diversity and De-Monsterization of Muslim Identities on Ms. Marvel.” Nordlit (42): 67–82.
Barker, Chris. 2002. Making Sense of Cultural Studies. Central Problems and Critical Debates. London-Thousand Oaks-New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Baetens, Jan, and Hugo Frey. 2015. The Graphic Novel: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press: New York.
Baron, Lawrence. 2003. “X-Men as J-Men: The Jewish Subtext of a Comic Book Movie.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 22 (1): 44–52.
Bauman, Zygmunt, and David Lyon. 2012. Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation. Malden: Polity Press.
Beaty, Bart. 2005. Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Behlman, Lee. 2004. “The Escapist: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in recent Jewish American Holocaust Fiction.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 22 (3): 56–71.
Bratich, Jack Z. 2008. Conspiracy Panics. Political Rationality and Popular Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Brown, Jeffrey A. 1999. “Comic Book Masculinity and the New Black Superhero.” African American Review 33 (1): 25–42.
Brown, Jeffrey A. 2001. Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Buhle, Paul. 2007. “History and Comics.” Reviews in American History 35 (2): 315–323.
Carpenter, Lucas. 2003. “’It Don’t Mean Nothin’: Vietnam War Fiction and Postmodernism.” College Literature 30 (2): 30–50.
Chapman, James. 2011. British Comics: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books.
Conners, Joan L. 2013. “Laughing and Learning: Using Political Cartoons to Teach Politics.” In Teaching Politics beyond the Book: Film, Texts and New Media in the Classroom, edited by Robert W. Glover and Daniel Tagliarina, 67–86. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Conroy, Mike. 2009. War Comics: A Graphic History. Lewes: ILEX.
Costello, Matthew J. 2009. Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America. New York, London: The Continuum.
Crick, Bernard. 2006. “Justifications of Violence.” The Political Quarterly 77 (4): 433–438.
Curtis, Neal. 2020. “Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: The (Dis)Continuity of Gender Policy.” The Journal of Popular Culture 53 (4): 926–945.
Davenport, Christian. 1998. “The Brother Might be Made of Steel, But He Sure Ain’t Super...Man.” Other Voices: The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism 1 (2). http://www.othervoices.org/1.2/cdavenport/steel.php.
Davis, Blair, Bart Beaty, Scott Bukatman, Henry Jenkins, and Benjamin Woo. 2017. “Roundtable: Comics and Methodology.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 1 (1): 56–74.
Dawe, Ian. 2013. “JFK: Comic Book Hero.” Sequart Organization. November 22. http://sequart.org/magazine/35074/jfk-comic-book-hero/.
Dawe, Ian. 2013. “Lee Harvey Oswald: a Comics Villain?” Sequart Organization. November 20. http://sequart.org/magazine/34564/lee-harvey-oswald-a-comics-villain/.
Di Liddo, Annalisa. 2009. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Di Liddo, Annalisa. 2009. ‘Transcending Comics: Crossing Boundaries of the Medium.” In A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, 325–339. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Doherty, Thomas. 1996. “Art Spiegelman’s Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust.” American Literature 68 (1): 69–84.
Earle, Harriet E. H. 2018. “A New Face for and Old Fight: Reimagining Vietnam in Vietnamese-American Graphic Memoirs.” Studies in Comics 9 (1): 87–105.
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Gauthier, Tim. 2019. “Negotiating Community in the Interregnum: Zombies and Others in Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 10 (5-6): 543–561.
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Gray, Maggie. 2010. “‘A Fistful of Dead Roses...’: Comics as Cultural Resistance: Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 1 (1): 31–49.
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Shue, Henry. 1978. “Torture.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 7 (2): 124–43.
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