Wouldn't it be great to put everything else aside and only work on your comics for a few days? Do you have the beginnings of a graphic novel but need some help getting it off the ground? Is your cartooning stuck in a rut, ready to move up to another level?
Those might be reasons for you to consider taking my course this summer: The Master Class in Comics Narrative at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, August 20-24.
Here are some of the reasons that I am looking forward to the class:
Those might be reasons for you to consider taking my course this summer: The Master Class in Comics Narrative at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, August 20-24.
Here are some of the reasons that I am looking forward to the class:
1. I like to teach.
At the
moment I am wrapping up a spring semester at RISD and it is thrilling to come
in weekly to see what my students have wrought on so little sleep.
2. Fresh donuts.
Baked daily at the Polka Dot
Diner two blocks from The Center for Cartoon Studies.
3. Intensive.
The group will be doing nothing
but discussing, reading, and making comics except for when we are eating fresh
donuts at the Polka Dot Diner.
4. The Jump-Start approach
Students will be developing work
for a long project. If you have been waiting for the opportunity to start or
finish that graphic novel project, this is it!
5. The Long Haul
But the fun does not end after
five days: we continue to work as a group on-line for another two months, refining and improving work.
6. Guest star cameos by some of
today’s most fascinating talents of Comicdom!!!
I am hoping that we will have
visits and lectures from the likes of cartoonists Steve Bissette, Jason Lutes, and James Sturm because while they yap I can run down to the Polka Dot Diner for
a fresh you-know-what.
If you take this class, I can pretty much guarantee that you
will be a better cartoonist leaving my class than when you begin.
Plus: it will be lots of fun.
Plus: it will be lots of fun.
Any level of cartoonist may apply, but bear in mind, this is a MASTER Class. Unpublished cartoonists should have solid drawing and humility skills. Published cartoonists may just need
their asses kicked for which I will be only too happy to oblige. Comics boot camp!
The only real requirement is that you come to class willing
to work very hard...and like donuts.
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