Professor Neal Curtis is an author, and professor at the University of Auckland based in Tāmaki Makaurau. He works in Media and Screen Studies in Kura Tangata | Faculty of Arts at Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland. He teaches courses on Ubiquitous Media; Social Media; and Comics.
Curtis presented Time Frames: Picturing past and present in comics at the Cartoons, Comics and Caricatures Symposium at the University of Auckland on the 3rd of May 2014.[1]
Courses about comics[]
MEDIA 222 / MEDIA 327 - Comics and Visual Narrative[]
Explores the medium of comics both as an expression of popular culture and as a visual language. Beginning with a history of sequential graphic narrative, the course considers issues around the legitimacy of a popular art form and means of story-telling, as well as the problem of censorship that dominated comics culture especially in the 1950s.
Works[]
The Talion Maker (Crackin' Press & No Press, 2015-2018)[]
- The Talion Maker Part 1 (Crackin' Press, 2015)
- The Talion Maker Part 2 (No Press, 2016)
- The Talion Maker Part 3 (No Press, 2018)
Other works[]
- Sovereignty and Superheroes (Manchester University Press, 1st of December 2015)[2]
- Comics and Communication: Graphic Storytelling from Activism to Science (University Press of Mississippi, [Not yet released])[3]
- Curtis, N. M. (2013). Superheroes and the Contradiction of Sovereignty. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 4 (2), 209-222. 10.1080/21504857.2013.803993