Hello, this is the library research guide for ART 215 Visual Odyssey Through Comics and Sequential Media with Professor Neil Kendricks.
It has sections relating to your comics creator research assignment: writing a thesis statement, finding biographical information, and resources on comic book drawing/techniques. Plus it covers ways to find articles as well as tips on using OneSearch, which is the library's search engine.
Need help? Feel free to contact Laurel Bliss, at lbliss@sdsu.edu.
If you're looking for someone who is fairly well-known, chances are good that we have books and/or articles about them. Go to OneSearch, and select Subject from the Any Field drop-down menu. Type in the person's last name, first name, as in the example below about Alison Bechdel.
If you don't find any relevant items in OneSearch, the next step is to look in an article database such as ArtBibliographies Modern or Art Full Text. Try the same strategy of a subject search and your person's name.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels. Here are the works of artists both celebrated and overlooked, alongside interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform.
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The second volume offers 100,000 pages of important, rare, and hard-to-find works, scholarly writings, and more. Volume II adds extensive coverage of the pre-Comics Code era horror, crime, romance, and war comics. Selections include works by visionaries such as Alex Toth, Boody Rogers, Fletcher Hanks, Steve Ditko, Joe Kubert, Bill Everett, Joe Simon, and Jack Kirby, along with essential series such as Crime Does Not Pay and Mister Mystery, and many others both famous and infamous.
Features full-text articles from more than 320 periodicals, indexing and abstracts for more than 680 periodicals, 14,000 art dissertations, and indexing for more than 220,000 art reproductions. Subjects Include: Advertising art, Archaeology, Architecture and architectural history, Graphic arts, Industrial design, Motion pictures, Non-western art, Television and video, and much more.
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Articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, reviews, and dissertations for all forms of modern and contemporary art (late 19th century to present). Includes theatre and fashion.
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The art of comic book drawing : more than 100 drawing and illustration techniques for rendering comic book characters and storyboards / Maury Aaseng (ebook)
Drawing Manga heroines & heroes : an interactive guide to drawing anime characters, props, and scenes step by step / Sonia Leong (ebook)
Draw Like an Artist: 100 Cartoon Animals (ebook)
Plus tons more Books on the Creation of Comics: Writing, Art, Design
An effective thesis statement tells the reader what the topic of your paper is, so they know what to expect. The Purdue OWL website does a nice job of explaining the components of a thesis statement.