Comics in European History -- Ancient Roman-Medieval Resources ~~(Cross-Posted from GRAPHIC NOVELS...)~~

[Marek Bennett]

I've been studying pop culture of past millenia -- Back when comics formed the literary foundation of European civilization!

I've posted some resources here:

http://comicsworkshop.wordpress.com/europe/

Materials from classes appear under "HISTORY" on my site:

http://comicsworkshop.wordpress.com/category/education/curriculum/h...

A lot of the materials have interesting parallels and connections to modern visual media culture... For example, we likened the sidebar narratives embedded in the ornamental borders of tapestries (as in above image) to a news ticker under the screen of a news broadcast.  Many texts also raise intriguing questions like "Who produced this text?", "Why did they produce it?", and "What point of view does it promote?"