Professional Practice provides an opportunity for students to gain experience with all aspects of professional life as a working artist trained in comics. Students will be instructed in professional conduct, tax preparation, basic contract law, the pitching process, and the many facets of the comics publishing industry. The class is based around a series of hands-on assignments intended to reinforce this learning, and students should expect to share work, collaborate, and receive constructive feedback from both their peers as well as the instructor. In addition to the individual and collaborative exercises, supplementary readings will be assigned and discussed via written response, group discussion, and/or online message boards.
- Instructor: Andy Warner
A two-semester sequence in which students develop and complete a comic project comprising a long-form story or an anthology of short works.
- Instructor: Rina Ayuyang
This class offers an introductory exploration of the comics medium and its many forms ranging from single-panel political cartoons and three-panel strips to serialized short-form publications and long-form graphic novels. This course features a diverse and wide-ranging reading list intended to reveal the creative possibilities of comics as a storytelling medium. In addition, the curriculum focuses on how time and space are metaphorically represented in two-dimensions, panel relationships, text-and-image relationships, page layouts, and the basics of the thumbnailing process. Original syllabus by Matt Silady.
- Instructor: Sara Alfageeh