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PNCA Portland workshop 4-day comics writing syllabus
photo by Erika Moen As I promised last week when I posted 2008 Portland workshop follow up, here’s the syllabus we followed for that class. Looking back on it now, it seems like we probably could have...
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Activity: a comic with no pictures
Pictureless comic by Ariel Reich 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...
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Student Spotlight: Lisa Anchin
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Hilary Allison, a student in Cartooning Hothouse at SVA this past summer who went all-out in her pursuit of a new drawing style. Lisa Anchin, the subject of this...
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Guest post: Lior reports on Ludovic Debeurme’s SVA visit, April 2011
Please welcome our newest intern, Lior Zaltzman, an incoming junior in the cartooning BFA program at the School of Visual Arts. During the last week of spring semester I was able to bring in for a...
View ArticleSyllabus: 15-week class
DWWP is a 15-chapter book designed to accompany a typical university-level studio art class meeting three hours a week. However, if you are actually teaching a class like that, you will quickly realize...
View ArticleSyllabus: 10 Week Course
This syllabus could easily be used for a 12-week class as well. It would probably be enough to add a few extra work days, but you could also add back in some of the lessons we cut here, such as 5.2,...
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Teaching Comics to teens week 2 day 4: Basic Character Design
This is part of a series of posts by Derek Mainhart—an entire year‘s curriculum for a comics class at the secondary level: middle school and high school. Follow us via rss, Facebook, or Twitter...
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