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
01/27
Meeting Day
Tuesdays
End Date
03/10
Faculty
Heide Solbrig
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
Manga refers to comics and graphic novels originating from Japan. This course will explore the historically distinct and influential style of manga, from its development in the 19th century to its evolution into the vast and versatile storytelling form it is today. This course will allow students to identify the … Read more
Start Date
01/28
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
03/11
Faculty
Francis Bordeleau, TBA
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
How is stylistic drawing utilized by comic artists to advance storytelling? This class is continued from Narrative Illustration 1 and will focus on a deep dive into narrative drawing techniques. This course will provide more ‘advanced’ drawing systems to choose from, building on the skills developed in the Narrative Illustration … Read more
Start Date
01/29
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
03/12
Faculty
Laura Meilman
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
Graphic storytelling can be a beautiful and emotive way to tell larger social and political stories that give us insight into the lives of others. This course will focus on how to develop a visual journalistic ‘voice’ in comics, how to work quickly and with an editor and some basic … Read more
Start Date
03/24
Meeting Day
Tuesdays
End Date
05/05
Faculty
Heide Solbrig
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
This course will focus on the fundamentals of color, lettering, page and panel layout, and other technical processes in comics systems. Students will learn basic color theory, and workflow techniques for digital color, as well analog color and color processing for print. We will cover approaches to lettering including traditional … Read more
Start Date
03/25
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
05/06
Faculty
Laura Meilman
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
In this capstone project, students create a publication-ready comic or graphic novel. The course will incorporate visiting artists, professionals from the publishing world, and other networking opportunities. A branding/marketing comics class, this course will create accountability systems for students and time management for creating comics, building community online and in-person … Read more
Start Date
03/26
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
05/07
Faculty
TBA
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
