Illustration of people gathered around a table. Two have voice bubbles with "Character Design!" and "World Building?!"

Introduction to Comics and Visual Narrative: Character Design and World Building

NC1013-01

Start Date

09/07

Time

10am–1:30pm

Format

Remote

End Date

10/19

Meeting Day

Saturdays

Credits

0

This online course features the following types of interaction:

  • Live meetings
  • Live critiques

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.

Comic Arts
Interested in Comic Arts? This class is part of the Visual Storytelling and Comic Arts Certificate!

This class is fully enrolled.

LJ Baptiste

LJ Baptiste is an art educator and cartoonist from Boston. He has collaborated with media giants such as Google, Hasbro, and PBS to produce essential works of art. He is best known for his ongoing comic book series, COMIXSCAPE, which features the adventures of a bright-eyed, perpetually preteen boy and his raccoon sidekick. In addition, he works … Read more