A Short History of AmericaRobert Crumb, 1979

Your aim is to write a short presentation on a graphic narrative. Look at A Short History of America by Robert Crumb and then answer the following questions:

1. What story is Crumb telling in this sequence?

2. Would it be possible to write a story to it? What would be lost if

it was expressed through words only?

3. Is there a subtext that goes beyond the series of representative

images?

4. What happens between the frames?

5. The perspective remains consistent: why do you think this is so?

How does this fixed perspective differ from the author’s

perspective in a conventional novel?

Crumb created three additional slides in 1996 . . .