Final Paper Reminder--Due May 1st via email; Also: What do I mean by research?

A few of you have emailed to ask for guidance about what sorts of research I'm looking for you to include in your final papers, so I thought I'd post what I've been writing to them. 

 What I mean by research: That would mean anything from including interviews with the artists in your analysis to searching venues, such as JStor and Project Muse (both accessible if you log in via the library website), for scholarly articles related to your paper.  You might look up articles about a theme you're interested in (eg animals in Maus, gender in comics, the relationship between manga and U.S. comics), for instance, or you might look for specific research on one of the comics you treat in the work.  You could also use a more general resource on comics, such as a book of comics theory a la McCloud.
 
Here are the books I posted links to early in the semester:



Hillary Chute's Graphic Women

A Comics Studies Reader, Ed. Jeet Heer and Ken Worcester

Michael Chaney's Graphic Subjects

Jared Gardner's Projections: Comics and The History of 21st Century Storytelling

Charles Hatfield's Alternative Comics

Frederick Aldama's Multicultural Comics

Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics

Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics

Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art

Neil Cohn's The Visual Language of Comics

Randy Duncan's The Power of Comics