# Comics

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Category: Literature
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:32.746Z
Tags: literature, comics, graphic, novels

## Summary

Comics — sequential art with text and image working together — is among the youngest narrative forms (200 years vs. millennia for novels) and among the most expansive in technique. The medium ranges from Sunday-paper strips to literary graphic novels in the Pulitzer-and-MacArthur firmament. Key sections include: Co mics.; Opening Sequential art.; Chapter I The first comics.; Chapter II Outcault to Herriman.; Chapter III The 1930s emergence.; Chapter IV Pre-Code horror.; Chapter V The graphic novel concept.; Chapter VI R. Crumb and the 1960s.; Chapter VII Moore and Gibbons, 1986.; Chapter VIII Spiegelman's masterpiece..

## Slide Outline

1. Co mics.
2. Opening Sequential art.
3. Chapter I The first comics.
4. Chapter II Outcault to Herriman.
5. Chapter III The 1930s emergence.
6. Chapter IV Pre-Code horror.
7. Chapter V The graphic novel concept.
8. Chapter VI R. Crumb and the 1960s.
9. Chapter VII Moore and Gibbons, 1986.
10. Chapter VIII Spiegelman's masterpiece.
11. Chapter IX Gaiman's mythology.
12. Chapter X Japanese sequential art.
13. Chapter XI The Franco-Belgian tradition.
14. Chapter XII Satrapi's autobiography.
15. Chapter XIII Fun Home.
16. Chapter XIV Jimmy Corrigan.
17. Chapter XV Adrian Tomine.
18. Chapter XVI The internet decade.
19. Chapter XVII The 2010s expansion.
20. Chapter XVIII Marvel Cinematic Universe.
21. Chapter XIX Eisners, Hugos, Pulitzers.
22. Chapter XX McCloud and beyond.
23. Chapter XXI The 2010s shift.
24. Chapter XXII Censorship and protests.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn it.
28. Chapter XXVI Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

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