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It analyzes how comics interact with other communication forms, art and literary traditions, while focusing on specialized narrative techniques and the medium’s ability to combine genres and ideas. 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Certainly the answer is “yes” but there are many people who reject the idea, yet many other people call those people old-school intellectuals. However, in recent years, many scholars, critics and faculty alike have accepted „comics‟, often dubbed by many publishers as „graphic novel‟, as a respected form of both literature and art. This medium and its idiom have become a salubrious feast of images, words, art and ideas within a path less traveled by the intellectual novelists.  \nTherefore, this course will examine the academic value of „comics‟ through the study of its history, similarity to and interaction with other forms of communication, art and literature, also through its own specialized literary and artistic techniques and its development as immensely compelling narratives that sometimes employ many genres all at once. This course will also deal with the literary, cultural and economical concerns of this unique literature and art form: Contemporary graphic narrative henceforth „comics‟, a.k.a. comic book, sequential art, graphic novel,“Çizgi Roman”(Turkish),“Fumetti”(Italian), \"Manga\" (Japanese),“Manhwa” Korean,“La Bande Dessinée”(French),“Quadrinhos”(Spanish), etc., depending on where you are and who you are talking to…  \nAlthough a compendium of graphic narrative from the earliest days of homo-sapiens will be encompassed in the course, since it is a field akin to a black hole, we will explore the depths only from the „event horizon‟, that is, from the perspective of comics: When most people think of them, an older generation recalls of Italian Esse-Gesse‟s Comandante Mark (Kaptan Swing), Il Grande Blek (Teksas), Capitan Miki (Tommiks), Alan Mistero (Tombraks), also other Italian comics Tex (Teks), Kinowa, Pekos Bill, Jerry Drake (Mister No), Za-Gor-Te-Nay (Zagor); the „really old‟ generation remembers even E.R. 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