ST103 History of Horror Comics
The mature-readers turn
The Saga of the Swamp Thing, Alan Moore, and how a Code comic became literature.
Reading for this lesson
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Pasko and Yeates, the revival before Moore.
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Required The Saga of the Swamp Thing #20: "Loose Ends" Alan Moore (writer), Dan Day (pencils) the whole issue
Moore's first issue; study the cover and indicia as well as the story.
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Recommended Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America Bradford W. Wright the chapter on the 1980s
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Optional Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Critical Approach Julia Round the historical chapter