Key Databases
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowIndexes materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, excluding book reviews.
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
- Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of LiteratureInstant access to authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in literature and literary studies
Comics Studies
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a foundational work in comics study in North America. Watch his Ted Talk for a brief overview of the work.
Books in the Library
Understanding Comics by
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.
Call Number: PN6710 .M32 1994ISBN: 9780060976255Publication Date: 1994-04-27
Comics and Sequential Art by Call Number: 9780961472818ISBN: 9780961472818Publication Date: 1994-04-01Eisner presents the principles of graphic storytelling in this guide, which is based on his popular sequential art course at New York's School of Visual Art. Readers will learn the basic anatomy, fundamentals of storycraft and how the medium works as a means of expression.
