Date of Award

2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Wallace, Miriam

Keywords

Portfolio, Graphic Novels, Women, Superheros, Web Comics

Area of Concentration

Literature

Abstract

This thesis portfolio contains three papers that explore multimodal works that rely on the integration of image and text to form a cohesive narrative. The first piece explores how a multimodal text supports a woman to contextualize the disorientation caused by her diasporic identity in a post-colonial society. The second piece is a sociological piece that analyzes a specific genre of the graphic novel, collections of serialized superhero comics, and how these works handle come of their main thematic concerns: crime, policing, and vigilantism. The third piece in this portfolio discusses the development of the comic form in the United States as it moves through its creation to its most current manifestation, the web-based graphic novel. While the internet has made strides in loosening strict industry standards and modes of production for these graphic novels, many works are failing to benefit from their newfound freedom and are also failing to fully realize the potential technological innovations available to the form.

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