Comic panel of the creation of Cambridge

Non-Fiction and Memoir

NC1012-01

Start Date

10/24

Time

6:30pm–9:30pm

Format

Remote

End Date

12/12

Meeting Day

Thursdays

Credits

0

This online course features the following types of interaction:

  • Live meetings
  • Live critiques

Memoir has dominated adult graphic novel publishing, in part because memory is often viscerally linked with imagery. Similarly, visual and comics journalism allows authors to tell non-fiction stories about politics, war, and trauma in ways that meld non-linear experiences with factual accounts. Students will explore interview, landscape, and visual translation in order to honor memory, experience, and factual accounts of the real world. Borrowing from the strategies of ethnography, documentary filmmaking, and photojournalism–and traversing genres from comics memoirs to comics journalism–courses in non-fiction comics will examine how to “interpret the truth” ethically and honestly.

Comic Arts
Interested in Comic Arts? This class is part of the Visual Storytelling and Comic Arts Certificate!

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Heide Solbrig

Heide Solbrig is a cartoonist and media scholar (MFA, Ph.D.) who teaches, writes, and draws memoir and journalistic comics. Her comics about growing up in the divorce generation of the 1970s have been written about in Filmmaker Magazine as well as appearing in literary journals, anthologies, and her own publications. Founder of the Boston ComicsWorkspace run out … Read more