Bobby James Kuechenmeister
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About Bobby
I am a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a BA in English awarded in May 2005. I am currently a graduate student in an English MA program at Texas A&M University. My scholarly interests include visual rhetoric, narrative, literacy, design, and Epic.
Now Reading
Books

About Looking
Ars Poetica
Art of War
Cassandra
Comics and Sequential Art
Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pyncheon, Gaddis, and Kesey
Image: A Guide to Psuedo Events in America
Print and Visual Communication
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Graphic Novels and Manga
Mechanical Bride
Medium is the Massage
Muse Learns to Write
Orality and Literacy
Philosophy of Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Poetics
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Research

Duffy, W. “Sing, Muse, of the Immortal Hero: Using Epic to Understand Comic Books”
Morris, R. “Visual Rhetoric in Political Cartoons: A Structuralist Approach”
Rollin, E. “Beowulf to Batman: The Epic Hero and Pop Culture”

Comic Books
52 Action Comics Amazing Spider-Man Green Arrow Green Lantern Green Lantern Corps Superman Superman / Batman
Now Watching
Rescue Me The Shield Smallville
Now Playing
Final Fantasy XII
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