ML200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Seymour Chwast, Stained Glass, Northlanders
ML200
Illuminated World- Medieval Comic Books
Manuscripts
• Illustrative stories
• Likening crucifixion and distraction of holy artwork
• Stained glass
• Bayeux tapestry
o Animated version
o Similar to modern day comic books – elements of the scene break framing
Medievalism: Comic Books as an Object of Study
• Version Approach vs. Allusion Approach (Christina Angel)
o Original and graphic novel together for comparison and adaptation choices
o Beowulf (Gareth Hinds)
▪ No text during the fight with Grendel
▪ Same idea in a different approach
o Sada: World’s Ed Neil Gaia ad Chauer’s ifluee
▪ As a categorization scheme for comics in classrooms
Does it have to be pictures? Comic Books & Adaptations of Medieval Literature
• Chaucer, Canterbury tales (14th century, vernacular English)
o The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
▪ Seymour Chwast, The Graphic Canon
o Gareth Hinds, Beowulf
▪ Beowulf as a superhero
▪ Variations in art; minimal use of text (500 words total)
▪ Meant for teachers and make the tale more accessible
Historiographia Cois ad Medieal History
• Brian Wood, Northlanders
o Several arcs for different sieges and attacks
o Focus on individual characters and their experiences
o Fictionalized but based on recognizable events
• Jordan Mechner, Templar
o Suppression on Templars
o Focus on a man who escapes arrest and assembles a heist team
o Dras o reorded speehes fro Teplars’ trials
• Warren Ellis, Crecy
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