Susan Merrill Squier

It's far enough along in the new semester to start thinking about what teaching Comics in a graduate seminar feels like.  First of all, it feels great to have the combination of literature scholars, rhetoricians, and poetry and fiction writers among the eleven people gathered to read comics--and make comics--together.  And it's an extra plus to have people whose interests include music, film, and visual art of all kinds (in addition to comics.) Finally, we have a comics artist coming for the middle hour of each three hour seminar, working us through exercises in comics creation.  This really gets us to work both sides of our brains.