Caricatures, crusaders and curriculum

National Comic Book Day is Sept. 25, but students in Nick Potter’s comics and cartooning course study and celebrate the medium as an art form all semester.

Sept. 21, 2022
Contact: Marcus Wilkins, wilkinsm@missouri.edu

Like a fun-loving Socrates pacing the classroom’s forefront, Nick Potter presents to his students the concept of the “democratic panel.” A lecture on Greek luminaries in a philosophy class, perhaps?

Think less Plato and more Popeye.