Thursday, February 19, 2004

Leads: Margaret M., Lindsey C.

Reading

• Art Spiegelman, Maus (part I, pages 5–93)

Notes

We’ll start with an introduction to reading comics.

• How does this biography engage you differently than the other assigned readings for this class?
• What do you do with the spaces between frames?
• What does the merging of text and image do to the story?
• Assess the main characters (Vladek, Anja, Mala, and Art). What do you think of them? Whom do you find especially compelling?