Shannon, Searcher–MFS Intro

This is a pretty long article, but I thought it was great how many things it mentions that we’ve read. She also brings up several other great graphic novels that I’ve read outside of class.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v052/52.4chute01.html

This is Hillary Chute’s intro to the Modern Fiction Studies, the first issue of any scholarly literary journal, I believe, to focus entirely on “graphic narratives.” She goes through the basic intro and history, including extensive borrowing from Understanding Comics, and then goes on to mention some narratives, and studies of narratives, of note. I liked the idea that the form of comics challenges a binary classification, since words and images work together with neither taking precedence. Later, she talks about censorship of both photos and drawings, including the Danish Mohammad cartoon that raised so much controversy, to emphasize the power of images.

I thought this might be a good source for ideas or quotes if anyone needs some for their paper. Plus, it’s a good review of a lot of the stuff we’ve discussed.