Comics and Graphic Novels

About this course

Comics and graphic novels constitute a distinctive and increasingly recognised artistic form, one that combines sequential visual narrative with text in ways unique to the medium, creating possibilities for storytelling, satire, documentary, poetry, and experimental art that are available through no other format. Comics have a long cultural history, from newspaper strips and superhero comics to the literary graphic novel and the global diversity of manga and bande dessinee, and they have increasingly been taken seriously as objects of artistic and critical study. Creating comics requires an integrated set of skills: drawing and visual invention, scriptwriting and storytelling, the understanding of how page composition and panel sequencing create rhythm and meaning, and the technical knowledge needed to produce work for print and digital platforms. At Teesside University, this three-year

Where its graduates go

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• 35 / 100Design occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 32 / 100Artistic, literary and media occupations · 5% of graduatescards →

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