Z604/Z672 Comic Books and Their Readers

Digital and Empirical Methods for Studying Readership and Fandom
Spring 2023

12:40 - 15:45 Wednesday, Ballantine Hall (BH) 118

Instructor: Associate Professor John A. Walsh, jawalsh@indiana.edu.
Office Hours: Monday 3pm - 4:30pm and by appointment.

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Charles “Teenie” Harris. Girl reading “Mickey Mouse and the Submarine Pirates” comic book with small dog lying across her lap, in George Harris’s confectionery store, 2121 Wylie Avenue, Hill District. 1947.

Contents

• General information
• Assignments
• Discussions
• Resources

Schedule

• Week 1 (2023-02-01): Introductions
• Week 2 (2023-02-08): Fan studies
• Week 3 (2023-02-15): Comics culture
• Week 4 (2023-02-22): Paratexts and fan mail
• Week 5 (2023-03-01): Building a corpus
• Week 6 (2023-03-08): Text analysis
• Spring Break (2023-03-15): No Class.
• Week 7 (2023-03-22): Text analysis lab
• Week 8 (2023-03-29): Data sets and visualization
• Week 9 (2023-04-05): Data visualization lab
• Week 10 (2023-04-12): Comics in special collections and archives
• Week 11 (2023-04-19): Fanzines and maker culture
• Week 12 (2023-04-26): Fandom on social media