Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Hassold, Cris

Keywords

Comics, Sequential Art, Woodblock Printing, Woodcut

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

This thesis begins with an analysis of the history of sequential art as it pertains to the evolution of the modern comics form. This study follows the development of comics as a mass art form from the eighteenth- and early nineteenth century cartoonists who pioneered the early comics form to later artists of the nineteenth century who refined comics into their recognizable modern incarnation. What follows is a treatment of other sequential art traditions, specifically the woodblock prints of Edo period Japan and other native Japanese sequential art forms, as well as their subsequent influence upon the modern Japanese manga tradition and, though manga, western comics in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From there I describe my own woodcut sequential art narratives, taking the form of three short comics stories stylistically informed by historical eastern and western woodcut (and sequential art) traditions.

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