Course detail

The Comic Aesthetics

FaVU-1ESTKAcad. year: 2026/2027

Main aim of the course is the affinity of comic studies with aesthetic theories and concepts. The individual lectures thus link the aesthetic aspects, theories and methods to the contemporary issues of comic studies. Selected themes will be presented by professionals from Czech Academy of Sciences.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Václav Magid, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

None.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

3 comics reviews: 8-10 pages together, literature, citation norms, given structure.

Aims

At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- orientate in different directions of the current professional exploration of the comic book
- analyze comic texts using different methods and approaches
- better understand the formal and functional properties of the comic medium
- independently analyze critically the comic work
- functionally use the methods and procedures of comics studies in their own interpretation
- better understand the rules and possibilities of comic grammar
- understand and recognize specific comic book approaches

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HEER, Jeet - WORCESTER, Kent (eds.). A comics studies reader. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, xv, 380 s. ISBN 9781604731095.
KOVACS, George - MARSHALL, C. W. (eds.). Classics and comics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xiii, 265 s. ISBN 9780199734191.
KRUML, Milan. Comics: stručné dějiny. Illustrated by Bryan Talbot. 1. české vyd. Praha: Comics Centrum, 2007, 318 s. ISBN 9788086839127.