About the course

Digital forms of production- and publication have made it possible for anyone with access to tools and techniques to potentially reach an audience of millions. This course offers an opportunity to explore and investigate this new form of publication, by looking back at the history of digital comics, as well as shaping the future of it.

The course aims to give basic theoretical and practical knowledge of digital comics and their cultural and medial contexts. During the course, the students will study, analyse and comment the contemporary field of digital comics. In addition to this, they will create and publish digital comics of their own and read, evaluate and comment digital comics published by fellow students. Results and reflections will be published on open web forums, aimed at digital comics, and comics in general. Digital comics is a half time distance-study course. Access to a computer with Internet connection is required. The course is taught in English.

Course content

Syllabus autumn 2024

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

General entry requirements + English 6

Selection

Upper secondary grades 34%, University credits completed 32%, Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) 34%

Course literature

  • Aggleton, Jen(2019)Defining digital comics: a British Library perspective,Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics,10:4,393-409https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2018.1503189
  • Dittmar, Jakob (2013) ”Digital Comics”. Scandinavian Journal of Comics Research. http://sjoca.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/SJoCA-1-2-Forum-Rabea-Heyden.pdf
  • Dittmar, Jakob (2015) “Experiments in Digital Comics: Somewhere between Comics and Multimedia Storytelling”. Comics Forum.https://comicsforum.org/2015/03/14/experiments-in-digital-comics-somewhere-between-comics-and-multimedia-storytelling-by-jakob-f-dittmar/
  • Kukkonen Karin (2013). Comics and Graphic novels. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Miller, Ann,Reading bande dessinée: critical approaches to French-language comic strip, Intellect Books, Bristol, 2007

Additional chapters from books and other articles are to be read amounting to approx. 100-300 pages.

Approx. 200-500 pages of digital comics to be selected partly individually and partly by the teachers of the course in relation to specific course topics.

Course evaluation

The course ends with an individual evaluation of the course objectives. The evaluations are summarised and made available to the students on completion of the course.

Malmö Mixed-time 50%

Contact

For more information about the education:

K3student@mau.se

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