Possible topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:* The evolution of ethnic representation in comics since the 1980s (presented through the work of such artists as Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Art Spiegelman, Ben Katchor, Kyle Baker, Ho Che Anderson, Howard Cruise, and R. Kikuo Johnson)* The coinage of graphic novel (by Will Eisner) as a literary form and its links t