Explore your creativity through comic characters and worlds! Visual storytelling in the form of graphic novels, manga, and comic books has become increasingly popular in recent years, and inspires all kinds of creative media work including film, video games, and virtual reality. Take a class, or go for the Visual Storytelling and Comic Arts Certificate!
This course is focused on the production of short and long-form comics and the visual narrative form. Students will become familiar with 1-3 panel comics, page design, lettering, inking, digital drawing, and 3-part narrative structure for long and short comics. Looking at the history of storytelling through comics, students will … Read more
Start Date
09/06
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
10/18
Faculty
Heide Solbrig
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
Focusing on the direct, iconic imagery of the cartoon, this drawing course teaches the elements of design, along with expressive and abstract illustration to focus the eye in support of storytelling. This course covers the mechanics of narrative techniques in story-driven art. Students will develop skills in using the theories … Read more
Start Date
09/09
Meeting Day
Saturdays
End Date
10/21
Faculty
LJ Baptiste
Time
10am–1pm
Credits
0
Memoir has dominated adult graphic novel publishing, in part because memory is often viscerally linked with imagery. Similarly, visual and comics journalism allows authors to tell non-fiction stories about politics, war, and trauma in ways that meld non-linear experiences with factual accounts. Students will explore interview, landscape, and visual translation … Read more
Start Date
10/25
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
12/13
Faculty
Heide Solbrig
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
Graphic novels have particular literary devices and artistic tools used to communicate in the visual narrative form. This class will read and discuss some of the great graphic narratives, from Krazy Kat to EC Horror Comics to Maus and Persepolis, along with contemporary comics. This research will inform their own … Read more
Start Date
10/27
Meeting Day
Fridays
End Date
12/15
Faculty
Austin Kemp
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
This course focuses on the production of short and long-form comics, with a focus on the development and design of characters and the worlds that are drawn and written for them. Continued research into the history of storytelling in multiple comic genres will be folded into the course.
Start Date
10/28
Meeting Day
Saturdays
End Date
12/16
Faculty
LJ Baptiste
Time
10am–1pm
Credits
0
