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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.
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My students are never artists, are always timid and shy about their drawing abilities, and have very little or no experience with comics (most of my students say they have never even held a comic book before!). But the jam comic lets us jump right into sequential art in a way that promotes creativity and removes the academic pressure of what my students believe they ought to be doing in a college classroom. I like to think of the jam comic as a kind of secret weapon against the stuffiness of academia: I can pull it out at any moment, in any class, and the classroom instantly turns into a place of play and creativity.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education. This week Matt tweets some illos-in-progress showing ways to approach penciling a panel.
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Hilary is an undergrad at SVA in cartooning, entering her third year. She’s incredibly energetic and involved in her learning process any time of the year, but something clicked in her brain this summer, and Hilary committed herself to her work with an intensity I rarely see.
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I’m an art teacher from Long Island who specializes in teaching cartooning. Every summer for the past six years, I’ve had the good fortune to teach an intensive cartooning course at an institution dedicated to the visual and performing arts. Increasingly, I’ve been incorporating some of the approaches outlined in Drawing Words & Writing Pictures.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education. This week Matt finishes tweeting his pencils-to-inks illustrations.
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The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at OSU is easily the best library collection of comics, printed and original, in the country, and perhaps in the world. The founding donor was one of my absolute faves of all time, Milt Caniff, and they have piles of his original work, as well as all his archives. Not only that, it’s run by the fantastically cool librarians Lucy Caswell and Jenny Robb.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education. This week Matt tweets some illos-in-progress showing ways to approach penciling a panel.
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I confused myself by masking a drawing of a masked drawing of someone inking using a toothbrush, and then inking it with a toothbrush…
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I just finished co-teaching a three-week class at the School of Visual Arts. It’s a pre-college intensive summer course in cartooning: 25 students, 4 teachers, one assistant, 250+ pages of comics produced!
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The “pictureless comic” activity, originally from Chapter 7 of DWWP, is one that we use constantly, in formal classes, in intensive workshops, and in casual talks and improvised situations. We once did it in a lecture hall at a comic convention with 200 people! It has so many advantages: at its core, it’s a study of how comics work, the elements of comics and how they work together to create meaning, even without pictorial images. It’s also a great way to learn layout and lettering skills, and to concentrate on those technical skills, again, without distraction. Finally, it’s an activity that anyone can do. Drawing skills are unnecessary (though a design sensibility is certainly a help!).
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education
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Over the last two years, Tom Hart and I have been offering an advanced comics seminar that I believe is a new and fruitful addition to comics education. A description and some reflections.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education
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At my recent workshop at the Miami Wolfsonian Museum, I taught the students about live area, how to lay out a page, and how to hand-letter. This is the second batch of videos, on lettering.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.
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At my recent workshop at the Miami Wolfsonian Museum, I taught the students about live area, how to lay out a page, and how to hand-letter. This first batch of short videos discuss and demonstrate live area, original size, laying out a page, and laying out tiers.
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In our first guest post, Sari Wilson reports on the Graphic Novel Institute, which occupied a whole day of programming at ALA’s Pop Top Stage.
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Matt gave a quick demo on making corrections by hand while at the Huntington Museum. He runs over several standard steps of correcting a page, and also touches on subtractive drawing and pasting down corrections on new paper.
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My last two days at the Wolfsonian weren’t the last days of the Comic Kraze workshop. It continued until last Friday, July 2. But Monday and Tuesday were action-packed, anyway.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.
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A great way to introduce people to the world of comics is to make a “jam comic” —an improvised collaborative comic. In addition to being a relaxed introduction to creating comics, jam comics are a great warm-up activity and icebreaker.
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Comics has a rich and eclectic tradition of formal experimentation. Following are a few links to examples of experimental comics from around the world.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.
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Using the minicomics format I wrote about last week, groups can draw an 8-page comic on the spot, with the idea that each person’s story would form a part of a longer narrative.
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We finally had enough work done that we started to get finished projects up on the blog! Most students finished their pictureless comics, scanned them, cleaned them up, and posted them. It’s a pretty great-looking bunch of pages, so check them out.
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This week’s main project: a one sheet micro-mini utilizing a real location in Miami Beach. We figured out the proportions for a 150% larger original size, and the students laid out 8 pages in their sketchbooks, and went out drawing with Caiphus in the afternoon.
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This week we are listing the handful of comics-specific degree programs we are aware of. If we have missed any please let us know as we will be adding this information to our links page soon.
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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.
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