Mid-Missouri Comics Collective

Comic related classes – Spring 2010

Posted by Winter on January 7, 2010

University of Missouri Classes:

• ART HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY 2850 - Introduction to Americal Visual Culture. Instructor: Kristin Schwain. Uses Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in class.
• ENGLSH 2700 & ANTHRO 2150 - Introduction to Folklore. Instructor: Claire Schmidt. Uses Maus I in class.
• ENGLISH 1310 - Introduction to American Literature: Honors-level Freshman English. Instructors: Sarah Heston (Lec. 2) & Stephanie Kartalopoulos (Lec. 6). Uses Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in class.
• ENGLISH 3310 - Survey of American Literature, 1865-Present. Instructor:  John Evelev. Uses Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in class.
• ENGLSH 4100 & 7100 - History of Memoir. Instructor: Ellen Levy. Uses Maus I in class.
• ENGLISH 4996 - The Honors Seminar: Postmodern American Bildungsroman. Instructor: John Evelev. Uses Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in class.
• GERMAN 3440 – After the Fact: Holocaust in Contemporary History, Art, and Literature. Instructor: Bradley Prager. Uses Complete Maus A Survivors Tale in class.

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St. Louis comic lecture

Posted by Winter on January 1, 2010

The Missouri History Museum in St. Louis is hosting a lecture January 3rd at 1 p.m. called Spinning Gold out of Scrap Paper: How Comic Books Went from Trash to Treasure. From the website:

How did comic books go from being trash in the 1950s to treasure in the ’70s?  Peter Coogan, director of the Institute for Comics Studies, delves into the depths of the ’60s to discover how fan clubs and comic book conventions provided a marketplace in which old comics became valuable.  Please join us on the closing day of the Treasure! exhibition for this informative program.

Peter Coogan is a comic scholar in St. Louis who manages the Institute for Comics Studies, which is interested in promoting the study, understanding, recognition, and cultural legitimacy of comics. He is also the author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre.

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