Graphic Narratives

Course Overview

Indian – Ajanta, Mughal Paintings (Hamzanaama, etc), Patta Chitra, Phad, Kavad, Yam pat, Groda, Chitrakathi, tec • Use of Graphic Narrative for expressing a social or personal themes • Elements of Graphic Narrative Design – Framing, thought bubbles, color & contrast, visual allusion, style and meaning, cultural context, text and image, etc.

Total Credits	4.0
Type	Theory
Lecture	1.0
Tutorial	2.0
Half Semester	N
Text Reference	• Eisner Will, Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books), Poorhouse Press, November 1985, ISBN-10: 0961472812, ISBN-13: 978-0961472818• Eisner Will, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Will Eisner Instructional Books), W. W. Norton & Company, 2008, ISBN-10: 039333127X, ISBN-13: 978-0393331271• Eisner Will, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books), W. W. Norton & Company, 2008, ISBN-10: 0393331288, ISBN-13: 978-0393331288• McCarthy Helen, Otomo Katsuhiro, Tezuka Osamu, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Abrams ComicArts; 2009, ISBN-10: 0810982498, ISBN-13: 978-0810982499• Mccloud Scott, Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, Harper Paperbacks, 2006, ISBN-10: 0060780940, ISBN-13: 978-0060780944

About Instructor

Prof. Phani Prasad Rao Tetali