Documentary Comics

This is a distance course with two separate half-weeks of on-site work in Malmö, during which students learn how to plan, prepare, and execute documentary comics of their own; also they learn how to interpret and assess documentary comics. To be able to do this, the course introduces principles of journalism and documentation and reflects on practical, ethical, and cultural implications for documentary comics. Everybody on the course will produce documentary comics after introductory and specialist workshops. The course aims to provide and develop methods for analysis of individual comics and comics-corpora as a source for academic research. The course will be taught in English. Experience in drawing, journalism, storytelling etc. is not necessary, but an advantage. The course is intended for students who want to communicate in sequential images and texts. It is our belief that everybody can learn to do this. To be able to participate and benefit from the course, some existing experience in academic studies is required.