Mentored Studio provides an opportunity for students to share work, collaborate, and receive constructive feedback from both their peers as well as the group study instructor as part of an on-line virtual workshop. Students will complete a series of comics exercises throughout the semester and participate in asynchronous, long-distance critiques facilitated by the instructor. In addition to the individual and collaborative exercises, readings may be assigned and discussed via written response and on-line message boards.
- Instructor: James Kettner
Advanced Comics: Cooperatives and Collectives is a project-based course in which students will be assigned into randomized groups which will each work to produce a collective themed anthology by the end of the term. As we create these anthologies, we will also study how comic collectives and cooperatives have built community and established scenes–both accidentally and intentionally. This course is focused on the power of collective action, no matter how brief, and how cartoonists engage in mutual support. There will be reading assignments and discussions of works both written about these collectives, and by individuals from them.
The fundamental aspect of this course is comics-making and learning to produce things you can hold and share. This course will take us from scratch to several publishable themed anthologies.
The fundamental aspect of this course is comics-making and learning to produce things you can hold and share. This course will take us from scratch to several publishable themed anthologies.
- Instructor: Andy Warner
In this class we will continue our exploration of story-telling in comics.
We will focus on writing, characters, editing, specificity, work
practices for long-form projects, and the beginnings of our thesis work.
Students will strengthen their short-form story-telling and demonstrate these
principles through reading, online discussion/feedback, and the creation of
original work through writing exercises and guided cartooning assignments.
Students will also create a collection of this work, and begin their thesis project.
This class will workshop assignments through mural comments.
We will focus on writing, characters, editing, specificity, work
practices for long-form projects, and the beginnings of our thesis work.
Students will strengthen their short-form story-telling and demonstrate these
principles through reading, online discussion/feedback, and the creation of
original work through writing exercises and guided cartooning assignments.
Students will also create a collection of this work, and begin their thesis project.
This class will workshop assignments through mural comments.
- Instructor: Nicole Georges
- Instructor: Gia-Bao Tran