Are you ready for a class unlike any other?

Then get ready to explore a brand new world in

English 290:   Comic Books As Literature

Class Number 71723

Fall 2009

Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00 - 10:20am

NS-260 (New Natural Sciences Building)

Reading List:

Ivan Brunetti, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories

Rocco Versaci, This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature

Charles Burns, Black Hole

Jaime Hernandez, The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, Watchmen

All of these books will be available at the Palomar College Bookstore, but you can also obtain them from a local comic shop--Sky High Comics, in San Marcos.  The owner, Dave Self, should have them on hand, and he frequently offers deals on multiple purchases.  Give him a call or check out his store!

In this class we will explore what I consider to be a rich, though vastly underappreciated literary genre:  the comic book.  We will look at these works in terms of comics' unique "graphic language"--the interplay of word and picture--and in terms of what they have to say about our lives and the lives of others.  

These titles are engaging, insightful, and fun to read.  What's more, both of them will be on reserve in the library, so if you can't get them, there will be copies available to read.

This will be a class unlike any you've ever had; don't pass it by!

Class Number:  75808

Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:00 - 10:20am

Instructor:  Dr. Rocco Versaci

Any questions?  Call me at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2971 or email me at rversaci@palomar.edu.  Also, please visit my website at http://www.palomar.edu/english/versaci to get a more complete picture about me, the kind of teacher I am, and more information on comic books.  This course is transferable to the UC/CSU system for three units of elective humanities credit.