{"id":482,"date":"2016-02-26T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandt-blog.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=482"},"modified":"2017-10-09T13:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T13:12:53","slug":"making-comics-as-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/textstech\/2016\/02\/26\/making-comics-as-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Comics as Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**This post has been re-blogged from ProfHacker with permission of the author.**<\/p>\n<p>For the last few years, I\u2019ve been collaborating with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerwhitson.net\/\">Roger Whitson<\/a> on editing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/index.html\">Comics as Scholarship<\/a>, a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly. The open-access issue is now available and may be of interest to anyone experimenting with alternatives to the monolithic scholarly essay. The collection includes six comics written and designed by scholars as ways to think about using comics to communicate as part of humanities discourse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/000234\/000234.html\">\u201cBehind the Scenes of a Dissertation in Comics Form\u201d by Nick Sousanis<\/a>\u00a0explores the process behind the dissertation that became his book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674744431\">Unflattening<\/a><\/em>, a visually stunning comic that pushes back against the flattening of knowledge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/000230\/000230.html\">\u201cIs this Article a Comic?\u201d by Jason Helms<\/a> uses a digital comic format to propel a meta-reflection on whether scholarly uses of comics are possible and desirable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/000212\/000212.html\">\u201cMateriality Comics\u201d by Aaron Kashtan<\/a> uses digital tools to craft an exploration of materiality as a way of theorizing and tying digital humanities methods to comics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/000214\/000214.html\">\u201cMultimodal Authoring and Authority in Educational Comics: Introducing Derrida and Foucault for Beginners\u201d by Aaron Scott Humphrey<\/a> analyzes the multiple modalities at work in comics that explore theoretical discourse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/000225\/000225.html\">\u201cSequential Rhetoric: Using Freire and Quintilian to Teach Students to Read and Create Comics\u201d by Robert Watkins and Tom Lindsley<\/a> looks at the challenges of multiple literacies required for comics pedagogy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/000218\/000218.html\">\u201cGraphic Images of YHWH: Exploring and Exploding the Bounds of Sexual Objectification in Ezekiel 16\u2033 by BJ Parker<\/a> looks at the consequences of remediating a shocking text as a comic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project came out of a conversation at THATCamp (<a href=\"http:\/\/comicscholarship.selfloud.net\/index.html\">the original CFP is here<\/a>) inspired by rethinking scholarly forms, particularly given the desire for public engagement and the use of some of the same rhetorical tools as the mediums we study.\u00a0The use of comics for communication is nothing new: <a href=\"http:\/\/scottmccloud.com\/2-print\/1-uc\/\">Scott McCloud\u2019s Understanding Comics<\/a> remains a fixture in courses on everything from comics, to marketing, to visual rhetoric. However, it\u2019s still rare in peer-reviewed scholarship, with <a href=\"http:\/\/kairos.technorhetoric.net\/\">Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy<\/a>\u00a0taking the lead for the last twenty years in peer-reviewed alternative format scholarly work. There are also a number of great examples in <a href=\"http:\/\/tundra.csd.sc.edu\/itineration\/\">Itineration<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/tundra.csd.sc.edu\/itineration\/dd1\">Barry Mauer\u2019s comic \u201cDeadly Delusions\u201d series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in experimenting with comics for communication or student projects, one simple tool for getting started is Bitstrips. <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/make-your-own-comic-strip-using-bitstrips-for-projects-or-assignments\/51571\">Adeline wrote a great tutorial on Bitstrips<\/a>, and you can see examples of it in action in Aaron Kashtan\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/9\/4\/000212\/resources\/pdf\/000212.pdf\">Materiality Comics<\/a>.\u201d Digital tools of this kind make playing with comics-making more accessible than ever. We hope that this collection provides examples and fuel for thought for further play with comics as an alternative to the scholarly essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"**This post has been re-blogged from ProfHacker with permission of the author.** For the last few years, I\u2019ve been collaborating with Roger Whitson on editing\u00a0Comics as Scholarship, a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly. The open-access issue is now available and may be of interest to anyone experimenting with alternatives to the monolithic scholarly essay. 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