Creating comic books, like filmmaking, is largely a collaborative process, excepting those few talented auteurs who can write, draw, letter, and color their own comics. The usual sequence of creation is writing, pencilling, lettering, inking, then coloring, with variations depending on the creative team, schedule, and publishing model. Monthly comics usually follow this process in assembly-line fashion to stay on schedule as much as possible. If the writer blows a script deadline, it puts pressure on everyone else down the line to catch up.
Overview: Introduction to the hands-on making of comics. Students will engage in numerous in-class exercises and small projects in making comics alongside analysis of comics, in order to grow their understanding of how to communicate in comics and discover methods that best work for them.
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To further our making skills, we will also analyze and absorb techniques and approaches gleaned from a wide variety of comics produced around the globe and throughout history, focusing on their unique or outstanding (and occasionally reproachable) formal qualities. Additionally, we will delve into comics theory and practice to explore how different creators/theorists articulate their working methods (including authors like Scott McCloud, Matt Madden & Jessica Abel, Lynda Barry, Ivan Brunetti, Will Eisner, Kevin Huizenga, and me).
Day 1: Intro, Grids & Gestures (1/25/21): On this day, we laid out where we were going, got to know one another a bit, discussed the importance of thinking through drawing and that comics were a form available to anyone to work in, and got started with our comics making through my Grids & Gestures activity in class.
Author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, cartoonist and theorist Scott McCloud has been making and thinking about comics for decades. His classic volume explores formal aspects of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary, and various ways in which these elements have been used.
We have world-class faculty experts bringing the innovations of their research into the classroom. English Department faculty are passionate about storytelling, making strong, ethical arguments, and debating literary arts of all kinds. We have noteworthy strengths in comics and cartoon studies; the study of race, ethnicity, (post)coloniality and indigeneity; and in the environmental humanities. Our faculty foster a lively culture of independent and collaborative research through our senior thesis option, our chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, and our small seminar programs. Our faculty are eager to offer supportive mentorship, helping students to find their way into rewarding career paths. 2ff7e9595c
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