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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 class is fully enrolled.

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

09/05

Meeting Day

Thursdays

End Date

10/17

Faculty

Heide Solbrig

Time

6:30pm–9:30pm

Credits

0

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This class is fully enrolled.

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

09/07

Meeting Day

Saturdays

End Date

10/19

Faculty

LJ Baptiste

Time

10am–1:30pm

Credits

0

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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

10/24

Meeting Day

Thursdays

End Date

12/12

Faculty

Heide Solbrig

Time

6:30pm–9:30pm

Credits

0

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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

10/26

Meeting Day

Saturdays

End Date

12/14

Faculty

LJ Baptiste

Time

10am–1:30pm

Credits

0

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There is a long tradition in short story comics and learning how to do it is a great way to hone your craft and build your audience. Learn to use the constraints of limited story space to create engaging and surprising short comics. In this class we’ll learn how to … Read more

Start Date

10/29

Meeting Day

Tuesdays

End Date

12/10

Faculty

Jerel Dye

Time

6:30pm–9:30pm

Credits

0

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