Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.69 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.63 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Making Comics 1
An introduction to making comics as a subject and means of academic inquiry.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Jeff Butler
Summary
1 / 5
A historical review describes Lynda Barry as an incredible and caring instructor who inspires students and helps them delve into art.
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Prerequisites
Course mapNone
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Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Lynda Barry describe her as an inspirational and caring instructor who significantly changed students' perspectives on art. One reviewer reported that Barry helped them come out of their shell and delve into art in a way they desired, rating the course highly for quality and low difficulty.
JEFF BUTLER is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
LYNDA BARRY is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 14 / 15 | 2 |
| LAB 002 | Classroom Instruction | 14 / 15 | 3 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
A historical review describes Lynda Barry as an incredible and caring instructor who inspires students and helps them delve into art.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 84.4% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.63 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.72 GPA, 84.4% A/AB (n=32 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
No workload feedback recorded.
Historical reviews of Lynda Barry: Students report that Lynda Barry helped them come out of their shell and change how they think about art.
Topics
Skills
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
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Where this course fits relative to
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About this comparison
1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
Making Comics 1
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.
Model & dataset provenance
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