Overall Paper Topic: How has the work of the comics artist and the value of comics art been imagined and represented?
Some questions to consider:
What do you think the categories of “comics” or “high / low art” mean?
What kinds of artistic, cultural, political, or social connotations does the label of “comics” imply?
What does it mean to think of comics as a part of modern and contemporary art, and how does taking comics into account change the history we might tell about modern and contemporary art?
What qualities or styles seem to distinguish some comics as “art,” and other comics as “popular culture”?