Comics and Graphic Literature Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Overview

The Comics and Graphic Literature programme from Manipal Academy of Higher Education explores the medium of comics and graphic literature in their broadest sense. Given its nature as a transmedium, with its links to the most basic forms of mark-making as well as to technological forms like the cinema, students will engage in focused enquiry and understanding, with and through comics and other graphic literature forms. 

Key Facts

Through drawing, reading, writing, seminars, transdisciplinary research, and engaging in critical inquiry of the medium, they will produce knowledge in the medium and develop their aesthetic practices in relation to contemporary contexts. Literary studies, cultural studies and comics studies will inform practice, while making leads into critical inquiry. Building on a foundation of basic drawing and narrative skills, the program will equip critically informed practitioners in bringing new perspectives and ways of thinking about our contemporary society and culture via the medium of comics and graphic literature. It creates a space for extending and developing pictorial narrative forms in South Asia.