Department of English
& Comparative Literature (ECL,
formerly ENGL)
ECL 157: Comics and History | MALAS 600D #nakedsouls23 Comics, Animation, Art, and Photography in the Worlds of Literature and Beyond ![]() Imagine exploring the world of comics, streaming animation, digital storytelling, and AI-designed narrative in a course with the Department of English and Comparative Literature, now known as ECL at SDSU! “Holy Robot Algorithms, Batman!” “Holy #nakedsouls23, Robin.” In this class, we will peruse worlds illustrated and cinematic, literary and philosophical, as we sample some of the most outrageous storytelling from the 20th and 21st centuries. And while we will be concerned with "history" and "comics" throughout the term, this class will not strictly be a history of comics, a survey of the evolution of men in tights and women in spandex! We are more concerned with the souls of this characters, the naked contours of what we can call the mind or the psyche! ![]() The souls we meet will be “naked,” not naked as in the “clothing optional sense” (though there will be a little of that) but naked in the original sense of the word, that speaks ... “of things, ‘without the usual or customary covering,’ from Old English. Applied to qualities, actions, etc., ‘mere, pure, open to view, unconcealed,’ from c. 1200; phrase the naked truth, from early 15c...”For the stories we read and the characters we meet will be very much unconcealed, revealing the secrets of their lives and their souls as can only be found in Literature, comics included. ![]() We will learn that "Literature" is the antithesis of the world of bullshit we are presently immersed in on television and social media, where fake news and filters are the name of the game. ![]() Our naked souls will be raw, eccentric, controversial, and neurotic. The required works are still being nailed down, but will include the singular amazingness of comics and art by Rene Magritte, Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli, Carlos Fuentes, Jason Adam Katzenstein, and Zoe Thorogood among others! |
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Required
Books (in progress) ![]() Our Fall 2023 Lineup of Required Books
THE BOOKS APPEAR IN ROUGHLY THE ORDER WE WILL BE READING THEM IN CLASS DURING THE SEMESTER... Though do note that the bookstore has been awful about ordering on time so last minute adjustments are to be expected! Click each cover below the Aztec Shops Link to see the correct print edition of all the books we are studying together this semester! Should you buy print editions or digital editions -- the University may well recommend that you go the digital route.What about pirated pdfs? In the digital age, anything goes. Bottom line? You are welcome to pursue what you see fit, but, despite the expense, nothing beats working with the best, printed edition of the book. Last question: should you rent or buy? That is up to you! But remember, your personal bookshelf is like a mirror of the journey of your psyche--a snapshot of the evolution of your imagination.
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Aztec Shops Campus
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![]() Day to Day Calendar of Nifty Assignments |
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Tuesday,
August 22, 2023![]() The bulk of this first day will be me explaining the goals of the class and the meaning of the bizarre hashtag #nakedsouls23! But we will also do some work together! 1. We will learn what the word "semiotic" means -- one of your comixtoolkitwords® for the semester. 2. We will rethink what we think "comics" or "comix" mean. ![]() ![]() -- An Eye for Annai, by Jonathan Klassen and Dan Rodriguez. 4. We will be treated to a harangue regarding the value of the printed book as opposed to downloaded pdfs. ![]() Oh my god, prof, that's too much! No worries -- it's the first day! We will all keep our expectations to a minimum. |
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Thursday, August
24, 2023![]() Our first book is a marvelous feat of naked amazingness! EVERYTHING IS AN EMERGENCY by JAK, aka, Jason Adam Katzenstein. Come to class having read to page 84 (no worries for those of you who find books to be a pain in the backside -- this is a comic book class, so it's mostly pictures!). As you read, take notes or use post-its to mark pages you want to explore and talk about in class. Katzenstein's book is a memoir, that is, while a comic book in the strict sense, it is also an autobiography, so we will spend a little time in class figuring out what an autobiography is and why that genre of literature is special. Genre? That's our comixtoolkitwords® for the day as well! ![]() If you have time or any interest in the book and the author and OCD, please check out this recent interview. https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/help-teens-with-ocd/ Will it be on the exam? This interview? No. Then why should you follow the link? Follow it and you'll find out why. |
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Tuesday, August 29,
2023![]() Over the weekend you ponder the cosmos and begin to have a sense of what this class is all about. To celebrate, you plunge into JAK's EVERYTHING IS AN EMERGENCY and finish reading the book. As you read, be sure to select and mark at least two of the pages that you want to see discussed in class. What is Katzenstein goal in authoring this moving memoir?! Do you do the 'gram!? Check out Jason's Instagram feed! Try to find both connections and disconnects between Katzenstein's memoir and his work as a cartoonist. ![]() |
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Thursday, August
31, 2023 |
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![]() ![]() Read to page 49 of Alexander Adams's carefully curated review of the Belgian surrealist master's career. As important as it is for you to learn from Adams's reading of these paintings, it is equally important that you begin to formulate your own readings of his works. This will not be easy at first, but as you read, I want you find one or two places where you feel you might be able to add to Adams's critique, deepen Adams's analysis. ![]() |
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Tuesday, September
5, 2023![]() It's a magnificent Tuesday -- why!? Because you've finished reading Alexander Adams's MAGRITTE book. Congratulations! But have you "read" Adams's book or have you screened it or seen it!? Because as someone who experiences this carefully curated book, you have to make a decision as to whether you focus more on Adams's interpretations, his hermeneutic tendencies, or, if instead, you have focused more on Magritte's paintings, Magritte's renditions of the dance of word and image. Remember to come to class prepared to talk about, explain and break down (analysis!) two of your favorite Magritte paintings as we experience our first episode of YOU'RE THE PROFESSOR! ![]() |
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Thursday, September
7 2023 It's our first movie day -- no reading! Unless you want to ... We enter GMCS 333 and are treated to a screening of JOAN IS AWFUL (Netflix, Jun 15, 2023), starring Salma Hayek. The description suggests this may be a minor contemporary tale, where "an average woman is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life - in which she is portrayed by Hollywood A-lister Salma Hayek." But we are in for some narrative amazingness as director Ally Pankiw and writer Charlie Brooker along with stars Annie Murphy, Hayek, and Michael Cera lead us on a whirlwind tour of the future, a digital labyrinth where the differences between reality and streaming media are hard to discern, and even harder to contemplate. In an age of avatars and digital doppelgängers, what does the SELF even mean anymore? Get to the class ON TIME so we have time for quick discussion after it is over! ![]() |
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Tuesday, September
12, 2023 Read to page 111 in Marc Sautet's (Author) & Patrick Boussignac's (Illustrator) NIETZSCHE FOR BEGINNERS! As you read consider the connections between what we have been reading and discussing in class with the ideas associated with Nietzsche in Sautet & Boussignac's epic graphic biography. Note though that their book is both a graphic biography AND a graphic ergography, as it is as much about the evolution of his published works as it is his life or biography proper. ![]() |
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Thursday, September
14, 2023![]() Finish your reading of Marc Sautet's (Author) & Patrick Boussignac's (Illustrator) NIETZSCHE FOR BEGINNERS -- what aspects of the soul does the book reveal? What, really, is a soul (or a psyche, or an unconscious for that matter) and how do Nietzsche's thoughts clarify or make more murky all these matters!? ![]() |
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Tuesday, September
19, 2023![]() The MAUS project was an all-consuming project for Spiegelman, one that left him changed and one that changed the world of publishing, opening up the COMIX and MANGA boom that now consumes the universe. On first glance, the book is a biographical history of Art Spiegelman's father, Vladek, and how he survived the Nazi holocaust. But the book is much more as well. In fact you will be hard pressed at times to know whether you are reading a history, a biography, or something else altogether. It is almost as if Spiegelman has invented a genre, if not a medium. For today's class read to page 100. ![]() |
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Thursday, September
21, 2023![]() New Homework: Bring to class a xeroxed page that places side by side one panel from MAUS II that appears near the beginning of the book and a second that appears near the end. Pick panels that you think relate or resonate with each other and that you are prepared to write about. ![]() |
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Tuesday, September
26, 2023![]() It is a fine Tuesday in Autumn 2023, and you enter the classroom having read CATARACT BLUES by Roger Rosenblatt and Jules Feiffer -- "read a whole book over the weekend!? you're crazy Professor Nericcio." But, yes, you've done it anyway (and it's a short, moving exercise, so quit the griping). UPDATE: no need to bring in a printout of an image or passage from Rosenblatt's and Feiffer's book, just come to class with a passage you are ready ask questions about and/or discuss! ![]() https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/opinion/artist-vision-sight.html |
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Thursday, September
28, 2023![]() ![]() |
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Tuesday, October 3,
2023![]() ![]() Walk into class having read MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD, written by Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson. Some things to think about with regard to the medium ... ![]() However, there are ways to understand picture books like MILO as being in dialogues with comix, adult and otherwise. |
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Thursday, October
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Tuesday, October
10, 2023 Flirt, Screening and Discussion day 1 ![]() Hartley's film, that we will experience, is three films or three repetitions, the same script fueling three takes on the same story (sort of) in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo. The film is called FLIRT, and it is about flirts, flirting, and all the consequences flirting entails: for the flirt, the flirtee, and all other souls involved. A trip to the etymological dictionary tells us that flirt's backstory includes the following: flirt (n.) 1540s, "joke, jest, stroke of wit, contemptuous remark," from flirt (v.). By 1560s as "a pert young hussey" [Johnson], and Shakespeare has flirt-gill (i.e. Jill) "a woman of light or loose behavior" (Fletcher formalizes it as flirt-gillian), while flirtgig was a 17c. Yorkshire dialect word for "a giddy, flighty girl." One of the many fl- words suggesting loose, flapping motion and connecting the notions of flightiness and licentiousness. Compare English dialect and Scottish flisk "to fly about nimbly, skip, caper" (1590s); source of Scott's fliskmahoy "girl giddy and full of herself." The meaning "person who plays at courtship" is from 1732 (as the name of female characters in plays at least since 1689 (Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter")). Also in early use sometimes "person one flirts with," though by 1862 this was being called a flirtee. also from 1540s.However, we may find out quite quickly that the ultimate flirt is Hal Hartley himself -- his film a meditation on flirting that is, itself, a big old flirt. ![]() |
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Thursday, October
12, 2023![]() Get to know more about Hal Hartley here: https://lwlies.com/interviews/hal-hartley-ned-rifle-henry-fool/ |
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Tuesday, October
17, 2023![]() Ay Caramba?! The Transcultural Politics of West Coast Hip Hop ![]() ![]() Mausfeld is based out of Europe where she recently finished her first book: American Made with a Mexican Flow!: Chicano Hip-Hop in Los Angeles, 1987-2001. Her areas of expertise include Hip-Hop-Studies | Anglo- and Latin American History | Transculturality | Diaspora Studies (Mexican-American, African-American). ![]() As you read, note that elite European researchers are increasingly drawn to cultural phenomena some Americans might consider peripheral or from the margins. What do they understand that we are missing!? Could it be that cultural artifacts "from the margins" are where it's at, where the magic that is cultural evolution is fueled and incubated?! Another thing Hip Hop has in common with Comix! |
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Thursday, October
19, 2023![]() Surprise Day! As your fearless professor gets to showcase the work of your amazing gaggle of TA talents! Here's the scoop! BREAKING NEWS FROM YOUR ECL 157 TAs:
Come to class having read the following:
1. Chapters 1-7 of Hwaja, a South Korean webcomic by artist and writer Hong Jac-Ga. Currently, Western readers only have access to the unofficial English translations of Hwaja, so take your pick from below websites:
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023![]() Enter the room having read (or is it experienced? Or is it lived?) Marshall McLuhan's THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE! |
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Thursday, October 26, 2023 MIDTERM ![]() |
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Tuesday, October 31,
2023![]() Halloween! And anyone that comes to class in full costume is guaranteed extra-credit points (25pts) on any quiz they have taken! Wow. In class, you come in prepared as over the weekend you have devoured Carlos Fuentes's spooky AURA. In no way a comic book, but very much concerned with naked psyches and more, Fuentes's novela promises to drive us to an amazing class session. With any luck, the ghost of Fuentes will join us as I was his graduate assistant at Cornell University and we remained friends after. The ghost will be there to ensure I don't mess anything up! ![]() |
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Thursday, November
2, 2023![]() "Take notice of
the multiple literary references in Fun Home…ask
yourself: what effect do they have
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Tuesday, November 7,
2023 Over the weekend you have finished reading Alison Bechdel's "family tragicomic"--FUN HOME. As you read, think back (or even go back and page back) through Nietzsche's revelations regarding tragedy which we learned through Sautet and Boussignac -- or, better yet!, read a few pages from an online copy of THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY. Also, also optional, but amazing, check out this interview of Alison Bechdel with Hilary Chute. ![]() We will take attendance today with you turning in a photocopied or printed panel from the book--which panel? The one that seems to live for you as the beating heart of the book, the one without which the book does not makes sense. Were I to do the assignment, I might have picked the following image: ![]() Why? Because the witness, Bechdel herself, is purposely split in two by her very own gutter -- the border space between two panels: the interstitial, the liminal, the in-between. This echoing empty space symbolizes the artist's ambivalence confronting something we can think of as the "living dead." In this case, not a zombie or walking dead monster, but a kind of living signifier, the father, the pater familias, who is dead but whose uncanny presence will continue to haunt this gifted memorist and cartoonist! |
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Thursday, November
9, 2023![]() Imagine ChatGPT has been drugged and kidnapped and placed into the creaking carcass of a 1950s era movie robot -- imagine as well that said robot has developed an addiction to pop songs and Nietzsche-laced existential angst! And then brace for incoming as a band invades GMCS 333 as we thrill to the event that is the Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra (no worries, no relation to the dark lord!) For class on Thursday, be sure to read the lyrics and listen to the tracks of HAVE AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, SPO's new album--links and lyrics for all tracks appear here: https://www.satanicpuppeteer.com/opk/crisis.htm or hit the image here: ![]() More things to know about the Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra (and the brains behind it, SDSU English and Comparative Literature alum Michael Buchmiller): ![]() Some Fun Facts
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Tuesday, November
14, 2023![]() ![]() Zoe Thorogood calls this book an "auto-bio-graphic-novel." What does she mean by that? That's one thing to think about what with McLuhan's words echoing through your head: "The Medium is the Message" "The Medium is the Message." ...You adapt McLuhan as you are clever, could the "genre" of a work also be "the message?" What does Thorogood's mashup of genres, of the Novel and Autobiography (or memoir) add or refract about our experience of the book. You do the reading, and you do it well even though you know you are not meeting in GMCS today owing to a lot of reasons already discussed in emails to the class. You sleep in. You are happy. You just hope that in your sleep the ghost of Consuelo Llorente will not visit you. |
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Thursday, November
16, 2023![]() ![]() |
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Tuesday, November
21, 2023 Thanksgiving Break -- No class! ![]() |
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Thursday, November
23, 2023 Thanksgiving Break -- No class! ![]() |
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Tuesday,
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Thursday November
30, 2023 Surprise Guest Lecture with MATT BORS in the house! Live! ![]() Matt Bors is an Eisner-winning comics editor and two time Pulitzer Prize Finalist in cartooning. In 2013, he founded The Nib, which published 6,000 comics, three books, and 15 issues of an award-winning print magazine. In 2017 he was the Executive Producer and head writer for two seasons of The Nib animation produced by Topic with Augenblick Studios. Bors’s comics have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, Village Voice, CNN, The Intercept, and were collected in the book We Should Improve Society Somewhat. He also drew the graphic novel War Is Boring, written by David Axe, and edits comics for In These Times magazine. His latest project is Justice Warriors, a dystopian satire created with artist Ben Clarkson from Ahoy Comics. View his archive of political cartoons at The Nib. Follow him on Instagram here. REQUIRED READING -------- ---------- -------- For our class special lecture featuring Matt Bors, complete the following assignment: 1. Read his collaborative recent graphic novel, Justice Warriors. He and his publisher have provided it for you FREE! Read as much as you can but at least to the end of Chapter 3. In an email to me, Matt shares the following:
This should be quite an event so feel free to invite comics junkie friends to come to the presentation. ![]() Matt Bors is an Eisner-winning comics editor and two time Pulitzer Prize Finalist in cartooning. In 2013, he founded The Nib, a web and print publication for nonfiction and political cartoons, which ceased publishing in 2023. Bors’ comics have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, Village Voice, CNN, The Intercept, and were collected in the book We Should Improve Society Somewhat. He also drew the graphic novel War Is Boring, written by David Axe, and edits comics for In These Times magazine. His latest project is Justice Warriors, a dystopian satire created with artist Ben Clarkson from Ahoy Comics. |
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023![]() also on tap today! A Review for the Final Exam that takes place in GMCS 333 at 11am on December 7, 2023. Be there or be square. |
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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Thursday, Dec. 14 ![]() As your SDSU Canvas system will nicely tell you, your final exam is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, from 10:30am to 12:30pm in GMCS 333. You can see it here: ![]() But the good news is that you HAVE ALREADY TAKEN THE FINAL EXAM and are free and in the clear. However, I will be around in GMCS 333 today to show you your grades and tell you what is the final outcome of your efforts this term. THIS IS NOT REQUIRED but I will make clear that in the past I have caught a lot of errors during these one on one meetings so if you are still around and have not jetted off home, it might be in your best interest to drop by to pick up your graded final, get your final grade, and ride off into the sunset. Right after this final exam period, Thursday, December 14, 2023, at around 2pm, your final grades will be released to the my.SDSU system. But DON'T FREAK OUT if the grades don't show up right away -- SDSU has doled out barrels of cash to purchase a computer system that seems to always let you down when it matters most. So be patient! |
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![]() Engl 157: Comics & History Passport A Description of How Your Work Will Be Evaluated in #nakedsouls23 This section of your online syllabus documents how your work will be evaluated Fall 2023. Here you will find all the little gates, cages, locks, statutes, ordinances, edicts, and formulas that allow our innovative comics and history collective to thrive. ![]() After all, we want to have a great time, to be the best literature/cultural studies class on the West Coast, even! Take that USC! Eat my dust UCLA! And it will be easier to achieve this semester as they, like us, are online all the time! But to do that, we need room for intellectual play--a safe asylum within which to forge our comics-laced, history-filled wanderlust. So, then, read these laws carefully and thoroughly, so when you enter our palace of comics, GMCS 333 on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, you will know what to expect! PASSPORT
RULE 1 BOOKS_BOOKS_BOOKS BUY THE BOOKS AND READ
THEM--DON'T COME TO SEMINAR WITHOUT YOUR BOOK! Though we very much adore
living in the 21st century, we will, for the most
part use ANALOG, printed books in this class. So
check out each one and buy them now! PASSPORT RULE 2 READ_READ_READ!
Do
the readings!
Do them twice if
you can MAKE the time! I know, you are saying to
yourself, "they don't make me read in my other
classes" or some other sort of nonsense... well here,
you must! Think twice about joining us online if you
have not finished the readings--the quality of our
class depends upon your dedicated work and your
relentless and independent curiosity. Without your
periodic intellectual donations, the class is likely
to evolve into a boring, even painful waste of
time.
Your laptop will
be asleep IN YOUR BAGS during class--or, better
yet, resting in your dorm room or apartment. Have you noticed
how anytime a student uses a laptop in an auditorium
there is a "cone of distraction" alongside and
behind the student using a computer? This is usually due to said student surfing the web via wi-fi perusing erotic delights or god knows what. I was recently at a cool (ok, it was slightly boring, I confess) lecture by a noted writer--as I tried to listen to her, in front of me, a diverted student (attending the lecture, no doubt, for extra-credit) was perusing sites like these (nsfw or school). So, laptops are GREAT for entering your notes AFTER class, but they will not be allowed in our lecture hall. If you have an issue with this, schedule a meeting with me during office hours to chat the first week of class. PASSPORT RULE 4 PARALYZETHE SMARTPHONE!
PASSPORT RULE 5 Charlie-Delta_Thief
In the university, plagiarism refers to the art and crime of presenting other people's work under your own signature, aka cutting and pasting copied crap from Wikipedia--definitely a BAD thing. While your professor is forbidden by CSU/SDSU code from tattooing the word LOSER on the foreheads of guilty students, he can promise that felonious students will be remanded to the state-authorized SDSU executioners. Read THIS as well--SDSU is SERIOUS about this shit, so don't take any chances! Rely on your own singular mind and imagination! Major Course Requirements
QUIZZES & ATTENDANCE Coming
to class for each seminar session is NOT optional--the whole point
of this class is to work together, the idea being
that we creatively and magicly convert our classroom
into a chaotic, unpredictable, and exciting
intellectual laboratory. Missing class, you miss, as well, the whole point of the adventure. So please bypass
no more than three classes during the semester--you
are responsible for any work/notes you miss when you
are absent and can PRESUME
that what you missed that day was important! If
you miss MORE than three classes during the term and
your grade will decay in an ugly way. EXAMPLES: your
hard-earned A- will morph into a B-; your "gentleman's
C" will appear on the webportal as a "D," etc. etc.
Ditching this class too often will be as fun as a case
of flesh-eating virus. While attendance was not really
an issue last year during the beginnings of the COVID
crisis, it will be this fall as we all go into this
semester with eyes open. During the
semester, you can expect several In-class
Panic-Inducing Challenges otherwise known as CHECK-YOU-DID-THE-READING
QUIZZES. You can expect these miserable
quizzes from time to time, the number of quizzes
depending on how many of you are nostalgic for high
school. In other words, if everyone acts like a
talented university student, we will enjoy FEW if any
quizzes during our semester. DIGITAL/VIRTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS (Voluntary NOT Mandatory)
You can also
contribute to your own instagram hashtag#, which
goes by the catchy designation #eyegasm22. If Facebook,
Tumblr, and Instagram remain alien to your
consciousness, you can send your suggested
links/images/videos to me via email to
bnericci@sdsu.edu; I don’t promise that I will post
ALL of your materials but I will try, however, to see
that some of them make their way to the fabulous
internets. What are you
expected to share via social media? Things you run
across that relate to our class readings and
discussions--you do not HAVE TO WRITE a long essay
with your postings... a couple of pointed, pithy,
well-crafted sentences will do, enough to give me and
your classmates a sense of a connection to ideas
developed during the semester in our class. Your Mid-Term, aka the Mid-Semester Eyegasm Challenge, and Final Examination, aka the Final Eyegasm Challenge
OFFICE HOURS
At SDSU,
it's easy to fall through the cracks, to feel that you
are nothing but a Red ID# or some warm pile of
sentient flesh filling a seat. In order to convince
you that the
Professor teaching you is occasionally human,
please make a point during the semester to take the
time to introduce yourself whether it be by piping up
in class, zapping me an email, or posting on one of
our social media channels. Regardless of how we end up arranging things, if you find my posted office hours are inconvenient, do not hesitate to email me for a phone or zoom appointment either at memo@sdsu.edu or bnericci@mail.sdsu.edu You can also call me at 619.594.1524 via telephone, but keep in mind I don't check my medieval office landline very often! |
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![]() ![]() WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY! The antithesis of a place of worship, the flipside of a space dedicated to faith and belief, the university is a site of questioning--a sacred space of critical thinking, skepticism, cynicism and irony. So open your eyes, jump-start your mind, and prepare to enter the choppy corridors of the always already evolving world of comics and history. ![]() |
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TA: Rose Padilla Brief bio: I am a second year MA student in English & Comparative Literature. Comics and video games fascinate me, especially ones that are full of world building and lore! Office
hours are on Fridays, 2-3pm at AL 244.
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2.
The Unclad Essences
Office: AL244 Office Hours: Thursdays 1:00-2:00pm and by appointment Email: jking3@sdsu.edu |
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3.
The Stripped Spirits TA: Kennii Ekundayo
I’m
Kennii Ekundayo, a second-year grad student in the
Liberal Arts and Sciences program with a focus on Art
History and Rhetoric. Comics and the study of visual
and material culture constitute a part of my
interests. I am happy to assist you in any areas that
pertain to how you can excel in ECL 157, so please,
feel free to reach out to me and we can meet virtually
or in-person. I hope you enjoy a wonderful semester.
Happy Learning!
Email: kekundayo4638@sdsu.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesdays 12.30 pm-1.30 pm (other days, by
appointment)
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4.
The Undraped Avatars
TA: Bill Nericcio
email: bnericci@sdsu.edu |
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5. The Unveiled Egos Last
Name: Salazar to Zezula TA: Toki Lee
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