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Week 12: Readers as funders: Crowdsourcing comics and fandom on social media

Summary

This week will be meeting with local comics creator Mark Bell.

Weekly Learning Objectives

• Interact with local comics creator to discuss issues such as:
  • moving from comics fandom to comics creation
  • the fan’s role in financing comics
  • creator-fan interactions online and in person as events like comic conventions

Before class:

Familiarize yourself with Mark Bell’s work. Examples are available in our shared Z616 OneDrive folder.

In class

• Mark Bell, comics creator (See examples of Mark’s work in our comics folder on OneDrive)
• Discussion