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ENGL-W3648 Comics, Health, and Embodiment

This is the library research guide that accompanies Rachel Adams's class at Columbia University, spring 2025. The guide was made by Jenna Freedman.

Read and Discuss

photo of two cats sniffing at a zineZine sampler! Read/skim a zine for two minutes & repeat 3x. 

[Content: curse words, sexuality, nudity, trauma]

Discuss in a group, using these guiding questions, or your own

  • What does the minicomic say about its creator--directly or indirectly?
  • Why do you think they chose a minicomic as their medium?

  • Thinking of the Piepmeier reading, how do the minicomic's appearance and content work with or against each other?

Zines Are

Nijsten, Nina. Scissors & Chainsaws No. 2 : Diary Comic Zine Made in July 2020 During International Zine Month. Gent, Belgium: Nina Nijsten, 2020.