American Comic Book Syllabus 2.0

I hadn't been on my Academia.edu account in a long time.  Recently, I started receiving e-mails that people had been googling "American Comic Book Syllabus" and had been coming across my page.  I thought that was pretty great, as I was really happy with the last draft of the syllabus I had created.  However, when I checked my Academia profile, I realized I had made an error:  the first draft, which was VERY superhero heavy, was posted...not the second, far improved draft.  





One of the problems with teaching comics is keeping the students' costs down, so I pulled my punches a bit on the first draft and assigned easy to find, relatively cheap, graphic novels and two historical texts.  Thanks to the advice from some other friends in Comics Studies, I got a little more comfortable with exploring the topic on the second draft and started to diversify a bit.  In any case, here are links for both drafts.  


American Comic Book Syllabi (Versions 1 & 2)