Comics push the boundaries of representation in art, tempting curious readers and artists alike with the hybrid possibilities that come from combining words and images to tell transgressive, poignant, and urgent stories. While historically, American comics have been met with restrict due to reactionary fears about corrupting children, comics have a long history of challenging the status quo and forging a space for queer, women, and other historically marginalized communities to share their experiences through sequential art. Focus on comics, zines, and self- published narrative images by trans, queer, and women artists to explore the possibilities of comics as a medium of subversion and queer narrativ possibility. Read comics by Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som, Lynda Barry, Julie Doucet, and others, and explores the cultural contexts and image- texts that reshaped queer arts and literature. Students also create their own comics in the tradition of subversive and boundary breaking narrative art. Prior experience in drawing is not required for success in this class.